Britain spends nearly twice as much on state-subsidised
housing, housing benefits and helping the homeless as other wealthy EU
countries, an official report said. UK taxpayers paid £100 in housing support
for every £66 that went on state housing in the next most generous EU country,
France. German taxpayers pay only £52 to help low-paid, unemployed or homeless
people put a roof over their heads, according to Office for National Statistics
estimates. Read more on the Daily Mail website.
Country diary: The challenge of making a thatched roof pine-marten proof |
Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
Still, as a local told me, ‘you cannae blame them wanting somewhere to live’
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