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A Labour government would compel property developers to meet the costs of building at least 50,000 discounted homes, as part of a packa stanley thermos mug ge of mea stanley cup sures to help renters and first-time buyers, the party will announce today.The shadow housing secretary, John Healey, has drawn up proposals to allow local authorities to use the planning process to force developers to build a certain number of properties to be earmarked for local first-time buyers.These would be sold at a discount of up to 50% to the local market rate, with the size of the reduction dependent on the gap between earnings and house prices in the local area - and the local authority could choose to target them at key workers such as nurses or teachers.Healey said in Boris Johnsons constituency of Uxbridge, in London, where the average house price is 拢350, stanley website 000, the price of new homes built in this way could be just 拢190,000. The properties would be earmarked as first-time buyer homes in perpetuity, and would have to be sold on at a discount to market rates. Labours new discount homes will give hope to aspiring first time buyers on ordinary incomes who have been failed by the Tories over the past decade, Healey said. Housing should be for the many, not the few, so a Labour government will cut the price of a first home for working people and lock in the discount to help future first time buyers too. Labour made housing a key theme in its manifesto, published last week - and has already promised to build 100,000 council hom Uspu Baby it s you: my fight to overcome infertility
The number of death sentences passed around the world increased by more than a quarter during 2014 from the year before, much of this connected t stanley cup o crackdowns on terrorism or internal security in countries such as Egypt and Nigeria, according to an annual report by Amnesty International.Over the course of past year the number of people confirmed to have been ex stanley termos ecuted globally dropped by 22%, falling to 607 from 778 in 2013. However, as Amnesty notes, this figure excludes China, which keeps death penalty statistics secret, but is believed to execute thousands of people each year. Similarly, many executions are thought to have taken place in secret in North Korea.Last year at least 2,466 death sentences were passed in 55 countries, says Amnesty, up from 1,925 in 2013. Much of this rise came from just two countries: Nigerian courts issued at least 659 death sentences, more than 500 higher than in 2013, while Egypt passed at least 509, a rise of more than 400 on 2013.Many of the Egyptian sentences followed what the Amnesty report calls mass trials that were grossly unfair , mainly connected to a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood group. These included death sentences for 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters over violence that erupted in 2013 in the aftermath of the army coup that ousted the then president, Mohamed Morsi.Th stanley cup e report notes that Egypt carried out 15 confirmed executions during 2014, significantly fewer than Iran 289 , Saudi Arabia 90 and Iraq 61 .The large number o |
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