Ground rents for leaseholders will be capped at Β£250 a year before dropping to a peppercorn rent after 40 years, Steve Reed has announced. The housing secretary confirmed the move on Tuesday morning, hitting out at ground rents as a “a bit of a scam”, “a racket” and “paying money for nothing”. Ground rents are…
SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL FINALS FRIDAYβS SCHEDULE At Cal State Fullerton DIVISION 1 Norco vs. St. John Bosco, 7:30 p.m. DIVISION 9 Webb vs. Rolling Hills Prep, 4 p.m. SATURDAYβS SCHEDULE At Cal State Fullerton DIVISION 4 Glendora vs. Laguna Beach, 7:30 p.m. DIVISION 6 Brentwood vs. Covina, 4 p.m. DIVISION 3 Mira Costa vs. Agoura,…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ An audacious overnight raid by elite U.S. forces that seized Venezuelan President NicolΓ‘s Maduro from his bedroom in Caracas plunged the country into turmoil Saturday, prompting international concern about Venezuelaβs future and President Trumpβs attempt to take control of the sovereign nation. Trump justified the stunning attack by accusing Maduro of sending βmonstersβ into the…
TAMPA, Fla.Β βΒ Scoring runs at Steinbrenner Field should not be as hard as the Dodgers made it look this weekend. The spring training ballpark, which is doubling as the Tampa Bay Raysβ temporary home this season after Tropicana Field was shredded in an offseason hurricane, has small Yankee Stadium-inspired dimensions that played even shorter in this…
What started as musical chairs is beginning to sound like a sad trombone. Thereβs only so many times you can reshuffle an offensive line before it has a ripple effect on the entire football team. The Chargers are reminded of that now as they head into Sundayβs game with the Washington Commanders hoping β as…
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Naguib Kheraj, the City veteran, has been shortlisted to become the next chairman of HSBC Holdings, Europe’s biggest bank. Sky News can reveal that Mr Kheraj, a former Barclays finance chief, is among a small number of contenders currently being considered to replace Sir Mark Tucker. HSBC, which has a market capitalisation of Β£165.4bn, has…
Iranβs World Cup team arrived in Tijuana last week bearing gold lapel pins on their jackets honoring the 168 victims, most of them schoolgirls, killed in a Feb. 28 U.S. missile strike on an elementary school in southern Iran at the outset of the war. The World Cup kicked off last week as that war…
France’s utility giant EDF is poised to start dismantling the Fessenheim nuclear power plant on the border with Germany, a β¬1.4 billion project slated to take 22 years.Β Built in 1971, the two reactors are the oldest in France and have been permanently shut down since 2020 after 43 years in operation following a string…
A row has broken out at the top of Your Party after Jeremy Corbyn accused co-leader Zarah Sultana of sending out unauthorised emails encouraging paid membership. Meanwhile Ms Sultana admitted she had broken ranks, but claimed she did so after being “sidelined” by a “sexist boys club”. Suspicions were aroused when Mr Corbyn released a…