We speak your mind. Enjoy free-thinking comment that champions your values. |  | Ben Butcher Data Editor | Most public data on Britain’s housing market are useless in helping homeowners understand the value of their property. Average prices make headlines but they don’t tell the real story of what’s happening in your neighbourhood.
We have built an interactive tool that combines all the data at our disposal, from house sales to energy certificates and mortgage rates. All you need to do is input your post code, the kind of property you live in and the number of rooms in your home to get a personalised valuation and a detailed picture of house prices in your area.
From there, you can zoom out to see how much prices have risen (or fallen) for homes similar to yours in the locality, and look ahead at what may happen in the next year. If you want to go further, you can then pit house prices in your area against those in other neighbourhoods to see how hot (or not) your local market is – and perhaps how wise your purchase was.
The property market over the past few years has been gloomy, and speculation over the Budget has done little to help. Understanding where your investment stands is vital. Now you have the tool to do just that. It’s by far the most ambitious I’ve worked on, and has been a year in the making.
Use the tool here ➤ |  | Gordon Rayner Associate Editor | First came the news that the BBC had doctored a Donald Trump speech, then the claims of bias. Now the national broadcaster is accused of a third breach of its own editorial standards: “censoring” what its audience is told about transgender issues.
In the latest revelation from a whistleblower’s memo, we were told that reporters on the BBC News LGBT desk “decline to cover any story raising difficult questions about the trans debate”.
Because the BBC now has a system where reporters are pooled between all news programmes, any story about trans issues has to go through the LGBT desk.
The desk has been “captured by a small group of people” promoting a radical transgender ideology and “keeping other perspectives off air”, the whistleblower said.
They also claimed that the BBC ignored significant stories about concerns over the care given to gender-distressed children that were covered by almost every other mainstream news outlet.
Rather than exploring the complexities of such an important subject, issues of gender and sexuality were too often treated as simply “a celebration of British diversity”, the whistleblower said.
The disclosures follow our exclusive story about a Panorama documentary, broadcast a week before last year’s US election, splicing together different parts of Mr Trump’s speech on the day of the 2021 Capitol Hill riots, making it appear that he had told people to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell”. In fact, he had urged them to protest peacefully.
That was followed by our examination of alleged bias in the BBC’s reporting of the war in Gaza, particularly by its BBC Arabic arm, which was accused of downplaying the suffering of Israelis in order to paint their country as the aggressor, as well as swallowing Hamas propaganda.
Samir Shah, the chairman of the BBC, has received letters from the chairman of the broadcasting regulator Ofcom and the chairman of a parliamentary committee that has the power to call BBC executives to be questioned in public. The repercussions of this story are only just beginning.
BBC trans coverage ‘censored’ by its own reporters ➤
Internal report reveals how it doctored Trump speech ➤
While its bias ‘pushed Hamas lies around the world’ ➤
| | Allister Heath Our national broadcaster has promulgated a pernicious Leftist orthodoxy that has taken hold of our institutions Continue reading ➤ Michael Deacon Labour is now officially the party of the benefits class Continue reading ➤ Guy Kelly Prince Harry is right about Britain’s sense of humour, but he lost his years ago Continue reading ➤ | Never miss a moment. Stay ahead with live news updates in our award-winning app. | | West Midlands Police made several arrests after officers and members of the public were attacked | | The Left “wanted us gone, they wanted us irrelevant, and they certainly wanted my father dead”. So Eric Trump tells me in this remarkable, candid interview, writes Tim Stanley. The son of Donald Trump speaks about a childhood packed with celebrities, hands-on parenting and hard work (Eric was working at a building site aged 11, and earning minimum wage). He talks about his mother’s struggle with alcoholism, his father’s management style – and, later in life, an unlikely presidential run that won the Trumps the world but cost them both friends and family. Continue reading ➤ | |  | | Jodi Echakowitz was 50 when she promised her doctor that she would do something about her weight. At 5ft 3in, she weighed 12st 7lb, wore a UK size 20 and hated feeling breathless climbing stairs. After trying WeightWatchers countless times with no success, she finally found a body-coaching programme that transformed her relationship with food and exercise. “Understanding that discipline isn’t punishment but self-respect was a lightbulb moment,” she says. Read how Jodi lost 55lb in nine months here. Continue reading ➤ | | | Car repossessions are surging in America where people are unable to keep up with payments for their vehicles. The increase is a warning sign about the worsening health of the US economy. The stock market is being driven ever higher by soaring investment in artificial intelligence and wealthy Americans are spending heavily. But as Melissa Lawford reports, lower and middle income families are struggling. Continue reading ➤ | | | | | Social climbers are still with us, but the Hyacinth Buckets of 2025 behave very differently to Patricia Routledge’s beloved creation | | Dame Patricia Routledge, best known for playing Hyacinth Bucket, the incorrigible social climber in the 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, was laid to rest yesterday in Chichester. The “Dreadful Mrs B”, as Dame Patricia referred to the character, epitomised a very British type of middle-class snob. But, while social climbers will always be with us, the Hyacinths of 2025 behave very differently to the TV creation. Iain Hollingshead provides a guide. Continue reading ➤ | | | Many of us would agree that ageing can feel like an uphill race. But, at 73, Anne Sebba is trying her best to prove the doom-mongers wrong, by sticking to a strict daily routine aimed at keeping herself healthy and mobile. She shares her key tips for staying disciplined to keep fit. Continue reading ➤ Below are two more helpful articles for you this morning: - Here are five expert-approved tips that will change the way you use your dishwasher.
- Finally, it can be difficult to wear jeans and still look smart, rather than scruffy. But it can be done, as Caroline Leaper, our Deputy Fashion Director, explains here.
| | Once a hub at the heart of the Roman Empire, Palmyra, located in the Syrian desert, contains many monumental ruins |  | Chris Leadbeater Travel Correspondent | It is not quite as regular a brainwave as sex (which crosses the male mind around 19 times every day, apparently), but there is an online theory (so it must be true) that men think about the Roman Empire several times a week.
How often exactly? That’s not entirely clear.
But is it often enough that, given a few hours, you could compile a sizable selection of the most significant remnants of this remarkable ancient era, then sort them into a logical order?
Absolutely.
The evidence that this is possible is right here: a half-century of temples, theatres, aqueducts, walls, churches and public baths, strewn across 24 countries and three continents – and ranked from 50 to one. Is your favourite archaeological site included? Has your best-loved ruined city made the cut? Take a glance at the map for immediate confirmation, then dive into the article to read more – and give us your own suggestions in the comments. I will be responding to them from 11am this morning.
Continue reading ➤ | Exquisite Aga-ny Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
I don’t think anyone can dispute the rustic appeal of an Aga, but I have heard it whispered that they are better in theory than practice. In fact I’ve heard it howled by one owner, after yet another meal in which every component was either borderline raw or ferociously burnt. (It didn’t feel like the moment to suggest that her cooking skills might have been at fault too.)
Then there’s the cost. “I can’t afford to turn on my Aga this winter,” complained Flora Watkins recently. Her article has not, it’s fair to say, won universal sympathy from readers, and Flora herself described her plight as something of a “first-world problem”. But the truth remains: they can be very expensive things to run.
And yet, and yet... for all their flaws, Agas often inspire fierce loyalty from their owners, who talk of them in terms more commonly used for family members than cooking appliances. And, as Philp Read explained in a letter, they have many other uses: “Like Flora, we bought our house for the simple reason that it had a cream Aga. I was brought up on a farm in Devon with an identical one. In the winter the plate-warming oven served a very different purpose. My late father would place sickly lambs in it to recuperate – with a dire warning to my sisters and me that on no account should we close the door. Otherwise we would have to make the mint sauce.”
Alexandra Elletson added: “These cookers have endless uses – making stock overnight, drying shoes, slow-cooking casseroles and producing the best baked potatoes. The only downside is that, when you have two dogs and four tortoises enjoying the warmth, it can be a mission to reach the tops to make the gravy for roast lamb.”
For another reader, however, the benefits couldn’t outweigh the bottom line: “I’ve just had my electric Aga taken away. It was pretty but very expensive and not practical. I now have a lovely range cooker with an induction hob. Just as attractive, and better for cooking.” Aga lover? Aga sceptic? Send me your thoughts here, and they may get selected to appear in a future edition of From the Editor PM. You can sign up here to read the responses. | Plan your day with The Telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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An effigy of Sir Keir Starmer will be burnt at a Kent town’s Bonfire Night celebrations on Saturday. But who was the subject of last year’s effigy in Edenbridge? | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
The solution to yesterday’s clue was CAPILLARY. Come back tomorrow for the answer to today’s puzzle. | |
Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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