Last year, the road where I now live was runner-up in Brighton’s City In Bloom ‘Flowers In My Street’ competition.
This year, judging by the almost overnight appearance of brightly coloured, full-to-bursting window boxes – June is competition month - the green-fingered residents are gunning for first place.
Very pretty the flower-clad street is, too.  An absolute [...]

“Evan, EVAN, could I just finish answering the question if that’s ok….”
Housing Minister Caroline Flint was on a hiding to nothing this morning as she tried to avoid questions about the Government’s housing policy and the likelihood of actually building 3m new homes by 2020.
She was, however, given a bit of a mauling by Evan [...]