Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of barcelona to protest against spains plans to sack the Regional Government and hold fresh elections. The spanish Prime Minister said hed been left with no choice but to restore the rule of law. Carles puigdemont, catalans leader, compared the actions of madrid to the fascist regime of general franco. Tom burridge reports from barcelona. Angrier than ever before, catalans who want independence digesting madrids unprecedented move to temporarily scrap their devolved government. Theyjust want to crush us down, and weve got dignity. Weve got our dignity. Weve fought for it for years. We couldnt speak catalan only, like, 40, 50 years ago. Are we going to go back to that . I want to see the army here. Were going to see it at this rate. I dont want that. Im young and i dont have that much knowledge but i have enough knowledge to know that that isnt normal and it shouldnt be happening in our country. We are a developed country. This i
Iam in i am in florida iam in florida in i am in florida in the United States, the power of Hurricane Irma has had devastating consequences. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The government says it is considering ways of making buying and selling houses faster, cheaper and selling houses faster, cheaper and less stressful. It is launching and less stressful. It is launching a consultation in england and wales which will look at whether its possible to reduce moving costs and end practices like gazumping. Community secretary sergey javad says the government has planned a massive House Building programme. Our business correspondentjoe lynam reports. Moving home is often compared to getting divorced in terms of stress and worry. Picking your new home is the easy part of the process, before venders, surveyors, solicitors, banks, agents and removal vans get involved. Currently, it can take three months on average to move home. Getting the mortgage offer from your bank alone takes around
And welcome to bbc news. A senior cabinet minister has said the government should consider borrowing money to invest in hundreds of thousands of new homes. The secretary of state for communities and local government, sajid javid, said ministers should take advantage of record low Interest Rates to deal with the housing crisis. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, mrjavid said he was sure the forthcoming budget would have announcements that would cover housing. What i want to do is make sure were using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis, and where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in infrastructure leading to more housing, take advantage of record low Interest Rates that we have, i think we should consider that. Thats interesting, because it is a change in tone. Not long ago, we were told we could not borrow more for anything, but you say housing is such a big infrastructure crisis in the country that we should borrow more to sol
The roll out of the welfare benefit universal credit. A senior cabinet minister has told the bbc that the government should consider borrowing more money to invest in building hundreds of thousands of new homes. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the communities secretary sajid javid said up to three hundred thousand new homes a year are needed a level of construction not seen since the 1960s. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. What are the government may be prepared to borrow money to pay fred. We are looking at new investments. What i want to do is make sure that we are using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis. Where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in infrastructure that leads to more housing, and take advantage of the record low Interest Rates that we have, we should absolutely be considering. As the how many, and he said that up to 300,000 new homes are needed annually. That is double the number bought i
Welcome to bbc news. A senior cabinet minister has told the bbc that the government should consider borrowing more money to invest in building hundreds of thousands of new homes. Speaking on the andrew marr show, the communities secretary sajid javid said up to 300,000 new homes a year are needed a level of construction not seen since the 1960s. 0ur Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. New homes are being built, but nowhere near enough. The government admits that the Housing Market is broken. Building more is one way to fix that, and community secretary, sajid javid says that more money could be porridge to build them. What i want to do is make sure that we are using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis, and where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in the infrastructure that leads to more housing, take advantage of some of the record low Interest Rates that we have, i think we should absolutely be considering that. As