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Yabba dabba doo! Could these bulging, Flintstones-style towers be the future of eco-building?

Ruggedly good-looking and greener than bricks and concrete, Petra Heights are made of three-metre slabs of rough rock. Could they herald a new stone age? Our writer fires up his Flintmobile There’s been a geological eruption on London’s Finchley Road. Great chunks of pink basalt and igneous larvikite appear to have exploded from the railway cutting, shooting skywards to form teetering towers. Anyone trying to find Finchley Road & Frognal station need wonder no more: just look for the multistorey Stonehenge. Countless apartment towers have sprouted above London’s stations in recent years, a res

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Planned Tory welfare cuts ‘a charter for human misery,’ says Labour – UK politics live

Conservative leader launches Welfare That Works policy document outlining benefit reductions of £36bn Badenoch and Whately are now taking questions. Q: [From Rob Powell from Sky News] We are running a report on the Netherlands, where youth unemployment is much lower than in the UK, but the amount they spend on getting people into work is much higher. Do you want to spend more on job training and support? Continue reading...

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