A house-price boom in northern England has shone a spotlight on the Forest of BowlandThe north-west is awake once more and returning to enchant England on the wings of the most unlikely of property booms. Significant rises in house prices in Blackburn and its surrounds are occurring while London’s building bonanza has gone into reverse.Estate agents are predicting an average UK growth of around 14% in house prices over the next five years with the north-west experiencing a boom at 18%. In contrast London, where it once seemed a dog kennel could fetch more than a semi-detached in Blackburn, is expected to slip back to around 7%. Continue reading…
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PIERS MORGAN: A phone call I received from a fired-up Trump should be a warning to Democrats
President Trump called me for a chat on Saturday. It was our first conversation since he unfollowed me on Twitter in April after I wrote a Mail column telling him to ‘Shut the f*ck up Read more…