As much of England endures the latest heatwave, public‑health bodies and local experts are pointing to an unexpected con…
2025-08-17 15:56
Labour ministers have quietly paused work on measures that would have constrained local councils’ power to introduce low…
2025-08-17 02:25
Leaves are falling and blackberries are sweet on the bush, yet much of the country still feels like summer. For gardener…
2025-08-17 02:24
A quiet but consequential transformation is underway across central London’s built environment: conservation and carbon …
2025-08-16 09:04
Thames Water has urged customers to cut everyday water use — starting with shorter showers — as parts of its supply area…
2025-08-16 09:03
Britain is on course for what could be its sunniest and most consistently hot year on record, according to national weat…
2025-08-15 23:06
Transport for London has set out plans to end the 100% Cleaner Vehicle Discount on 25 December 2025 and replace it with …
2025-08-15 13:17
Brent Council has approved plans to replace the former Matalan store and adjacent car park on Cricklewood Broadway with …
2025-08-14 12:04
US politicians have warned Labour that a prospective sale of Thames Water to a firm with links to China would pose a nat…
2025-08-14 11:59
On the afternoon of 14 August 1975 a sudden, violent thunderstorm centred on Hampstead transformed quiet north‑west Lond…
2025-08-14 11:58
In recent years green roofing has migrated from a niche architectural detail to a central plank in sustainable urban des…
2025-08-14 11:56
Air pollution is both an immediate public‑health hazard and a long‑term environmental threat, yet communicating its risk…
2025-08-14 11:55
SOAS University of London has emerged from a period when many British universities struggled with a clearer balance shee…
2025-08-14 03:48
Cities across the UK are confronting a new and unsettling hazard as hotter, drier summers make urban green spaces far mo…
2025-08-14 03:47
A lorry laden with tyres went up in flames on the M25 on 13 August 2025, producing a vast plume of black smoke and forci…
2025-08-13 14:52
London will host the inaugural CN RE:NEW Retrofit in Focus 2025 conference on 18 November at the Kia Oval, a one‑day gat…
2025-08-13 14:50
Springfield Hospital in Tooting has been reborn as Springfield Village, a mixed‑use neighbourhood that places modern men…
2025-08-12 05:49
The Runnymede Pleasure Grounds, on the banks of the Thames at Egham, is one of the family-friendly spots singled out in …
2025-08-12 05:46
A large grass fire on Wanstead Flats in north‑east London was fought by around sixty firefighters after the brigade rece…
A surge of hot, humid air moving up from the continent is set to push temperatures across much of the UK into the high 2…
2025-08-12 05:45