A businessman today told how his family cheated death after a Porsche 911 crashed into their living room. The £100,000 sports car smashed into the front of Nazir Ahmed’s £1million Victorian corner terrace in Jubilee Street, Stepney, at high speed. His wife Shahida Nazir, 46, son Danyal, 21, and daughter Hina, 25, had been sitting on the sofa against the wall minutes before the car became embedded in the wall. It was only by chance that they had gone upstairs to admire some decorating Read more [...]

Almost 200 homes will be built on the former site of Walton hospital. Approval was today granted for the scheme, which includes an Aldi supermarket, on land once home to the old Aintree University Hospitals’ Walton Day Care and Outpatient Centre. City planners praised the proposal before approving it this morning, with work expected to begin in November. The development off Rice Lane will include 195 properties with a mixture of houses, flats and bungalows. As part of the plan 64 houses and apartments Read more [...]