Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards
Illustration: Guardian Design/GettyView image in fullscreen Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy…
To all the betting shops littering our high streets: people power is coming and the odds are against you | Dawn Butler
Higher-stakes gambling machines can generate an average of £35,000 in gross yield per machine each year. Photograph: Islandstock/AlamyView image in…
Hundreds in London flats left without regular running water since last year
Langmead House in Tower Hamlets, where residents have been affected by water being turned off without warning for hours each…
Meet the offenders cleaning canals in the West Midlands as an alternative to prison
Steve Warmer rests after collecting litter from alongside the canal. Photograph: Tom Pilston/The GuardianView image in fullscreenSteve Warmer rests after…
‘It makes you feel you’ve got a really dirty house’: what’s behind the UK’s plagues of flies?
Short-term solution … Fly paper won’t tackle the source of an infestation. Photograph: Arterra Picture Library/AlamyView image in fullscreenShort-term solution…
Families in London temporary housing told they cannot use in-built air conditioning
Some residents at Britannia Point in Colliers Wood, London, experienced such stifling conditions young children became ill. Photograph: Paul Gapper/AlamyView…
‘Impossible things are possible’: the murals celebrating lives beyond homelessness
Lee, one of the St Mungo’s case studies and a former rough sleeper, at his dedicated mural in Bethnal Green,…
I grew up near Andy Burnham. This is what shaped our new PM
Burnham has recalled his upbringing as ‘modest’, but his family also ‘didn’t want for anything’. Composite: Guardian Design/PA/Getty ImagesView image…
‘It’s generations of decline’: can Andy Burnham really end rough sleeping?
A rough sleeper in south London. Burnham’s pledge has been welcomed by homelessness charities but with some scepticism. Photograph: Martin…
‘I don’t know where the kids will go’: beloved football cage in east London to be demolished
The Keith Miller pitch is a free resource that is ‘self-governing and democratic and brings a lot of much-needed joy’.…