First-time buyer aid cash: SW England gets biggest share

Image caption Cornwall is popular with people buying second homes South-west England has been awarded the largest share of a fund raised through extra stamp duty on second homes to help first-time buyers in England.
The area, which accounts for 21% of all second-home ownership in England, is to get £19.1m of the £60m annual fund.
The money will be distributed to “community-led” groups to encourage the building of affordable housing.
Labour"s John Healey said last year saw the lowest level of new affordable homes built since 1991.
The government says second-home ownership is at an all-time high and is crowding out first-time buyers by artificially raising prices.
"Big problem"It reports that there were 340,000 second homes in England in 2013/14 – a rise of 98,000 in five years.
In March the then chancellor, George Osborne, announced that £60m raised by an additional 3% on stamp duty on second homes would be spent on “community-led housing developments in coastal and ru..

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Fraizer Campbell returned to haunt Hull as he scored a late equaliser to earn Crystal Palace a 3-3 away draw.
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In its latest report, market research firm IDC has revealed its numbers on the smartphone landscape in 2016. According to the firm, Android"s market share for this year will stand at 85%, after achieving an year-on-year growth of 5.2%. iOS, on the other hand, will claim 14.3% of the market, having seen its shipments decrease by 11%.
In total, Google"s and Apple"s mobile operating systems will claim over 99% of the market, leaving just 0.4% share for Windows Phone and 0.3% for others. The combined share for Android and iOS will reach nearly 100% by 2020, the report notes.
“It is no secret that Google"s Android OS has been and will remain the majority share platform in smartphones for the foreseeable future,” the report says. “It will also be at the core of the aforementioned 4G growth expected in emerging markets as low-cost Android players are not using newer, faster low-cost chips.”
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Illness as indicator

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THE first piece of news Americans woke up to on November 9th was that Donald Trump had been elected president. The second was that he owed his victory to a massive swing towards Republicans by white voters without college degrees across the north of the country, who deliver..

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Driven to voteNOT since 2000 has a lower share of the American electorate turned out to vote in a presidential election. That may be because of voters’ lack of enthusiasm for either candidate. But many suspect restrictive laws also played a part. Since 2012 several states have passed laws requiring prospective voters to show state-issued identification at th..

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