内容摘要：A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive told BBC News NI that all allocations in this area - and all others across NI - are made in line with the Housing Selection Scheme.

A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive told BBC News NI that all allocations in this area - and all others across NI - are made in line with the Housing Selection Scheme.

Mr Dicker said cutting VAT to 10% would "save salons across the country".A spokesperson for the Treasury said they were removing the £110,000 business rates relief cap for more than 280,000 retail, hospitality and leisure business properties.

The Sunday Times rich list has revealed Wales' wealthiest people.This year's edition of the annual shortlist sees Cardiff-born billionaire Sir Michael Moritz and wife Harriet Heyman return to the top spot with a wealth of £4.435bn - a fall of £168m compared with 2024.Flintshire technology entrepreneur Simon Nixon, co-founder of Moneysupermarket.com, takes the second spot as he is worth £1.95bn, while Specsavers founder Douglas Perkins and family, from Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, come in at third.

reveals the largest fall in the number of billionaires in the guide's 37-year history, from 177 in 2022 to 156 this year.Claiming first place on the list along with writer and sculptor Ms Heyman, Sir Michael moved to the United States after graduating from Oxford in 1974.

He made his fortune after investing in tech start-ups such as Google and PayPal during his time at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, before leaving the firm in 2023 after 38 years.

: "All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible... I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes.", Shropshire, gave evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Committee at the start of April and told MPs he had asked a government official "do you still want me?", amid uncertainty over his role.

This week, the issue was again raised in the Commons, with Conservative frontbencher Katie Lam was among MPs demanding updates on the local inquiries."Over three months since the Government announced these local inquiries, Tom Crowther KC, a barrister invited by the Home Office to help establish them, knows almost nothing about their progress, and neither do we," she told the Commons.

Responding, Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips said councils will be able to access a £5m fund to support locally-led work on grooming gangs."Following feedback from local authorities, the fund will adopt a flexible approach to support both full independent local inquiries and more bespoke work, including local victims' panels or locally-led audits into the handling of historic cases," she said.