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"We are coming for you" - Michael Gove's warning to firms that cut corners, sought to profiteer and mis-sold dangerous products No leaseholder living in a building higher than 11m, around four to six ...

National Audit Office report says taxpayer-funded scheme made payment to suspected scammer last autumn Fraudsters may have stolen £500,000 from a taxpayer-funded scheme aimed at accelerating the ...

What is it that makes wonderful buildings speak to us? The sense of shelter promised? Memories evoked? Innovative revealed? The possibility of heritage lost, or futures held? Or, simple, is it beauty ...