4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (15+ words) BBC Pest controller finds huge cockroach infestation...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (388+ words) The last living pre-World War II resident of the family home of Sir Winston Churchill is to make an emotional return to help launch a new display celebrating the work of her father at the estate. The father of Gwen…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (712+ words) Hundreds of thousands of cockroaches were found in a shared home in an infestation described as the worst the pest controller had seen in 38 years. Gareth Davies, who said the scene had looked like one from a "Stephen King film…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (349+ words) An ageing outdoor swimming pool is to get a £1.1m upgrade to keep it running. Haltwhistle Swimming Pool, in Northumberland, attracts tens of thousands of visitors a year but parts of the facility date back to the 1970s, when it first opened....

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (461+ words) Applications for a Stormont scheme to give eligible households a £100 voucher towards home heating oil costs are now open. About 340,000 lower-income households are expected to qualify for the payment which was first announced in March. Applications will made via the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (526+ words) An 89-year-old woman who has tended a street garden in St John's Wood in central London for more than 25 years has been told she may have to get rid of it after complaints. Katharine Hoskyns was sent a removal notice…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (208+ words) A popular city swimming pool is set to undergo a "major improvement programme" costing £1.4m. Work will begin in September to revamp the pool at Leisure World Colchester, with changing facilities and the external flumes in line for a full upgrade....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (464+ words) A communal heating system, believed to be the oldest in the UK, could be replaced with a mix of air-source heat pumps and individual boilers as alternatives to expensive modernisation of the ageing network. The 70-year-old Pimlico District Heat Undertaking…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (610+ words) A disused fridge and freezer recycling depot in Wales has been earmarked as a possible solution to the national backlog in processing the appliances. Oxfordshire County Council has written to the government, suggesting the facility in Newport should reopen to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (307+ words) Work to repair a historic riverside garden's gates which were severely damaged after a car crashed through them could start in the autumn. The oak replica gates at Caversham Court Gardens, which lie next to the River Thames in Reading,…...