Shares in Connaught social housing group have plummeted. Photograph: PR Connaught urgently needs cash and is about to breach the terms of its overdraft, the embattled social housing maintenance group has admitted. The news sent shares in the FTSE 250 business crashing. After an hour’s... 

Airline tickets are best booked eight weeks in advance, according to new research. Photograph: Martial Trezzini/AP It is a question that anyone booking a holiday or business trip will have asked themselves countless times: exactly when is the best time to buy an advance plane ticket to fly... 

The government hopes its new licensing regime will give residents more power to tackle antisocial behaviour. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Residents are to be given much stronger powers to object to the licences of “problem” pubs and clubs being extended or renewed, under... 

Ed Miliband MP, Labour leadership candidate. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian My brother David and I had a childhood that was both normal and unusual, if that’s possible. We were normal in the things that we did – playing football, watching TV – and it was unusual in that...