The council was discussing how much the highways department would receive as a "block allocation" of funds ... As a rural ...

A spending watchdog has warned the backlog in maintaining crumbling schools, hospitals and prisons costs at least £49 billion but could be larger. The head of the National Audit Office (NAO ...

The Prime Minister has promised that crumbling concrete at a hospital will be repaired following concerns over its impact on maternity services. Sir Keir Starmer made the commitment in response to ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves must also tackle the maintenance backlog in the Government's next spending review, and agree long-term funding to repair crumbling buildings, the NAO added. The £49 ...

The 40-year-old trains and crumbling repair shops have downstream effects on commutes. MTA data shows delays on the 1 line caused by faulty train equipment nearly doubled during the first 10 ...

Will Kirk, best known for his role on The Repair Shop, has shared details of his big move to Surrey and how it has positively impacted his family life. The furniture restorer, 39, appeared on Alan ...

A growing movement is looking to change that. Right-to-repair advocates want to make items in our homes easier to fix and thus less prone to wind up in a landfill. For many, it’s a matter of ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted and locked a woman in a cinder block cell in his Klamath Falls home in 2023 was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.

A fraternal organization in Troy is asking for helping identifying a person who threw a cinder block through their window. It happened just after midnight on Saturday. The Fraternal Order of ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new ...