Campaigners have gathered outside a hospital to urge the government to release the funding needed to rebuild it. The Queen ...

St Columba’s Catholic Primary School, in Wallsend, and St John Vianney Primary, in West Denton, were two of the North East ...

RAAC – short for Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete – has had a lasting presence in the news owing to a string of last-minute school closures and headlines about 'crumbling concrete'. But while ...

What Is a Price Ceiling? A price ceiling is the maximum amount a seller is permitted to charge for a product or service. It is usually set by law and is typically applied to staples such as food ...

"You know what's a fun DIY weekend project? Scraping my popcorn ceilings!" said no one, ever. Between testing your popcorn ceilings for asbestos and enduring the subsequent avalanche of falling debris ...

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The hospital building requires replacing by 2030 after large areas were found to have been built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), which is crumbling. Patient groups said the ...

Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was discovered in the roof of the hospital's Rockingham Wing in 2023, forcing maternity services to be relocated. Sir Keir said: "I can reassure ...

The NAO estimates that 5,400 clinical incidents were caused by property failures. In one worst case scenario, parts of ceilings of Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport collapsed in March 2024, forcing ...

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, injuring 27 people and causing ceilings of homes to cave in according to local authorities. An AFP journalist in ...

The desperately-needed rebuild of a crumbling Norfolk hospital may not be complete until three years after its current shelf life, the health secretary has warned. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in ...