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Drivers are being urged to report every road surface crack no matter how small amid a surge in pothole-related breakdowns.The AA, which issued the plea, said it wants authorities to understand the true state of our roads.In April, the company received more than 52,000 call outs to vehicles stranded due to faults likely caused by potholes.

Tech hubs clustered around universities in England will benefit from almost 1bn in extra funding as part of a range of measures in the budget on Wednesday to boost business investment in the regions.The chancellor will make the pledge to create 12 investment zones in eight areas to drive business investment and level up the country, each backed with 80m of government funding.

Universities are becoming primary victims of the chaos enveloping Britain's public sector.News reported in the Guardian has vice-chancellors pleading for a new model of government funding.This follows reports that one-third of England's universities are trading at a deficit.Since almost one-fifth of UK students in higher education now come from abroad 125,000 of them from China there is near panic at the Home Office's determination to slash student immigration.

S adiq Khan has hit back at claims he is building tower blocks people do not want in a desperate bid to reach his housing targets.The Mayor of London revealed on Monday that he had hit the Government's target of starting work on 116,000 new affordable homes by April 2023.He achieved the milestone after work was started on a record 25,658 affordable properties in the last year.

MPs have expressed concern that local authorities in England are failing to pass on government funding for free childcare places to nurseries, after research showed councils were holding back millions of pounds to offset deficits or add to reserves.Freedom of information requests submitted by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) revealed that more than 90 of the 150 local education authorities that responded underspent to the tune of almost 46m in total last year.

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Professional models will strut down the runway at Brooklyn's Central Library on Friday night, donning original pieces created by aspiring designers looking to stitch their way into the world of high fashion.

The price of school lunches has increased by more than a third in parts of England, increasing the pressure on school finances and family budgets during the cost of living crisis, according to figures revealed by the Liberal Democrats.Families with two children can be facing a bill for more than 1,000 a year for school lunches, a rise of more than 200 since 2019, because of inflation and rising energy and staff costs, according to the party's estimates.

There are essentially three areas in the world where clusters of private companies have started to develop small launch vehicles.The first such cluster emerged in the United States nearly two decades ago with SpaceX, which was then followed by Rocket Lab and about a dozen other serious companies.Next came China, with a profusion of quasi-private companies leveraging technology from the country's state-owned launch enterprises with private funding.

Ruth, a north Londoner and executive assistant for environmental campaign group Mums for Lungs, says her six-year-old's asthma can be often worsened by dirty air, that she has to plan journeys around his health condition.Signs of her son's asthma first cropped up amid a heatwave in 2018, when he had seven attacks.

The Government's promise of an expansion in state-funded childcare has triggered major concern within the sector as it faces funding shortages, a consequent mass exodus of staff, and the resulting closure of nurseries across the UK.Jeremy Hunt made this pledge alongside a range of measures aimed at boosting economic growth in Wednesday's Spring Budget speech.

Jeremy Hunt has said the British economy will avoid a technical recession this year while announcing an extension in financial support for households struggling with the cost of living crisis.In a statement to the Commons aiming to reboot Britain's faltering economy, the chancellor said he would prioritise support for parents with childcare costs alongside a multibillion-pound package of tax breaks for business to encourage investment.

The Government's reforms to the childcare system risk worsening outcomes for disadvantaged children, charities have warned.Plans to expand free childcare for working parents in England do not support poorer children or improve childcare quality, according to a report by Coram Family and Childcare (CFC) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

A 57-year-old businessman has completed a solo row across the Atlantic, raising almost 170,000 for charity in memory of his daughter who died from an undiagnosed heart condition.Andrew Osborne, from Rutland, made landfall in Antigua earlier this week, more than 11 weeks after setting out from the Canary Islands in January.

The UK environment secretary, Therese Coffey, has disappointed campaigners after revealing that an ambitious hedgerow plan for England was in fact a typographical error.At the end of January, environment groups were delighted when Coffey revealed the government's Environmental Improvement Plan would include aims to plant 30,000 miles of new hedgerows a year by 2037 and 45,000 a year by 2050.

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Rishi Sunak's U-turn on a pledge to shut down 30 Chinese state-sponsored Confucius Institutes in the the UK has been compared to the scriptwriters for Yes Minister.The retreat, first reported by TalkTV, has been criticised by more hawkish Tory backbenchers, with former prime minister Liz Truss urging him to deliver on the language he used during last summer's contest.

British homes will send an average of 5,700 abroad to foreign gas producers to heat their homes and water and cook food by the middle of the next decade, a new analysis suggests.The average home could be buying foreign gas worth around 500 a year by 2035 unless efforts are made to reduce the country's dependency on gas.

The map outlines some of the route's planned stops, including at Sidcup, Queen Mary's Hospital, Chislehurst Station, and Bickley with connections to National Rail services at Chislehurst, Bickley, Bromley, and Sidcup.The new service would be part of the Superloop - a new network of limited stop express routes which, when complete, will circle London and connect outer London town centres, hospitals, schools, and transport hubs.

Millions of homeowners face more pain after the Bank of England raised interest rates to a 14-year high.The 11th consecutive increase comes as the bank struggles to bring stubbornly-high inflation under control.And in more bad news for households, official figures also show average council tax in England will this year top 2,000 for the first time.

For The Washington Post, John Muyskens, Shannon Osaka, and Naema Ahmed mapped the main ways that Americans heat their homes:

Thanks to a combination of local climates, electricity prices and historical accident, America's home heating system, like the country's politics, is deeply divided.In the South, thanks to government funding from almost a century ago and mild climates, many rely on electricity to stay warm.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Funding to fix potholes across England will be boosted by 200 million, Jeremy Hunt has announced.The Chancellor said the Government's Potholes Fund which provides 500,000 a year to councils will be increased to 700 million in the 2023/24 financial year.