Over a century and a number of licence transfers later, Havering Libraries said The Laurie Arms was put at risk by Romford Borough Council's 1955 slum clearance scheme. Slum clearances took place ...

Corporation Street has always been a regular stop on any visit to the city centre. Every kid from the 1970s will have been ...

Housing Ombudsman ordered Ealing Council to pay compensation to Errol Baptiste over its handling of complaints about his ...

The Victorian government has identified 25 more train and tram zones where it wants to change planning rules to boost housing development. Premier Jacinta Allan says new housing should be built ...

In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

Kenya's Directorate of Criminal Investigations say that on the day he vanished, Mr Scott returned to the bar to meet a friend before he was taken to Pipeline, one of Nairobi's biggest slums ...

The €26 million redevelopment of Dublin’s Victorian fruit and vegetable market is finally getting under way, six years after it was closed by Dublin City Council. Construction and conservation ...

In MetroTalk: A reader says additional council tax is a drop in the ocean to many property investors (Credits: Getty Images) Shoulders slumped, head down, the stranger shuffles across the doctor ...

The gruesome nature of the Ripper murders, combined with the impoverished conditions of his victims, shed light on the dire living conditions in the East End, sparking public outrage against its ...

From the rooftop of a Rio de Janeiro slum, amid sheet after sheet of corrugated iron, one man reclines amid succulents and ficus. His name is Luis Cassiano Silva, and he is the progenitor of the ...

Dhaka's sprawling slums have long been a symbol of hardship, but a worsening crisis is now intensifying the struggles of their residents — the alarming rise of drug addiction. A field visit to various ...