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Rules imposed by Natural England have led 74 councils to block developments that could not show they would not pollute water systems
Rules imposed by Natural England have led 74 councils to block developments that could not show they would not pollute water systems
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1 The House Builders’ Federation said that actions taken by Natural England and recent changes to planning policy threaten to reduce the number of new homes from 240,000 per year in 2018-19, to 111,000 by 2025, the lowest level since the 1920s.

2 Voters overwhelmingly support tougher curbs on junk food to tackle obesity. Eighty per cent back the idea of laws to prevent the advertising of unhealthy food to children on television and online, according to a YouGov poll for the Obesity Health Alliance.

3 Meta, the owner of Facebook, has been fined €1.2 billion for breaching European Union data privacy rules, and given a six-month deadline to stop transferring data to the US. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Meta violated the EU’s