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Cost of average home in December reaches £269,426, with value increasing over year by almost £12,000House prices rose for a fourth consecutive month in December, ending 2024 on a “strong footing”, Nationwide said, with the cost of an average home hitting £269,426.The building society’s monthly tracker found prices in December rose 0.7% on the previous month and were up 4.7% on an annual basis. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/02/uk-house-prices-rise-for-fourth-month-in-a-row-says-nationwide Author : Mark Sweney Publish date : 2025-01-02 09:52:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

First building to open at Huddersfield’s National Health Innovation Centre is named after NHS’s first black matronIn a full-scale model of a house, a £50,000 mannequin that can breathe, blink and cough waits for the replica of an ambulance.Eerily lifelike technology, some created by model makers who have made “bodies” for the BBC’s Silent Witness, is being used to tackle the scarcity of placement hours for healthcare students by combining real-world training with simulated settings, including virtual reality. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/02/huddersfield-national-health-innovation-centre-nhs Author : Chris Osuh Publish date : 2025-01-02 07:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal casesMore than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the last government to prevent the release of various documents under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/02/errol-graham-disabled-man-death-review Author : Ben Quinn Publish date : 2025-01-02 07:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Motoring body says hybrids without a plug should be banned or else confidence in electric cars will be damagedBritain needs to press ahead with a ban on the sale of new hybrid cars with no plug from 2030 or risk taking “a catastrophic misstep” on the road to net zero, ministers have been warned.Cars such as the Toyota Prius, which charge a battery from an internal combustion engine, need to be excluded from the list of vehicles sold in the UK from 2030 or there will be a “profound” fall in confidence in the government’s commitment to electric motoring, according