Estate agents Hamptons recently found that ‘flipping’ – where a home is sold twice within 12 months – had reached its highest levels since 2008.

This contract win represents the third new customer in Germany to sign up under the group’s new market strategy.

It was the most that the public sector has borrowed during any February since records began in 1993, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Graeme Lee, chief executive of Springfield Group, which is behind the project, was joined by Neil Silcock, of York contractor, Simpson, Sally Rasmussen, of Springfield Healthcare, and Joanna Hawkins-Spencer, of project manager, Projex Building Solutions, to celebrate the landmark event.

The Ford Fiesta must have one of the most comprehensive model ranges in the country, which might explain its near-total dominance of the sales charts.

Hundreds of workers at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) have voted to take industrial action over safety concerns around Covid.

Megan Hoyle, who at 19 has been involved in showing and riding shire horses her whole life, said as a riding horse they are like being “sat in a luxurious armchair”.

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The London-listed firm, which now focuses on the US, said it would make the 180 cents (£1.30) a share payout to investors in May following the £308 million sale of its UK-based Wolseley division at the start of the year.