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 ...

Author Julia Smith suggests that O'Connor's encounters with poverty in Victorian Bradford had a profound impact on Chesterton's Father Brown novels, as reported by the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.

and has appeared as a historical expert on BBC1’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ and ‘The One Show’ as well as on the BBC2 series ‘The Victorian Slum’. Formerly at the University of ...

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 ...

He is said to have met a friend at the venue before taking a taxi to Pipeline, one of the city's biggest slums, shortly after 7pm, according to the newspaper. Investigators believe he was held at ...

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 ...

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 ...