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A building ban in place since 2019 in North Herefordshire due to river pollution has seen plans for around 2,000 new houses put on hold in the town of Leominster, which has a population of 12,000 people.

A woman from Widnes, Cheshire is appealing for information following her 53-year-old husband’s death from mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer, just seven months after his diagnosis.

The High Court has granted an injunction protecting independent traders at south London’s Brixton Plaza after they were told to move and make way for a new supermarket

As announced yesterday (4 December 2025), one of the Labour government’s manifesto pledges to reduce the qualifying period for employees to bring unfair dismissal claims will be (as of the time of this blog) coming into force in January 2027. This will have far and wide-reaching changes to the employment sector in the UK.  

Leigh Day partner Sarah Moore, who leads a team investigating PFAS pollution in the UK, reflects on the recent Panorama episode about the substances known as ‘forever chemicals’.

In an age of deepfakes, AI bots, and algorithmic manipulation, the question of how governments safeguard democratic integrity against foreign interference is now central to the survival of free and fair elections

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