Redrow Bosses of building firms buy discounted homes meant for families
The chairman of housing firm Redrow, Steve Morgan, has let four of the six affordable home properties at his company’s Stretton Green development in Cheshire to staff from his estate at the Carden Park Hotel. The homes failed to sell at their original price of £350,000 each, leading Morgan to purchase all six for £680,000. Morgan allegedly collects rent of at least £640 from each home, although the properties were designed to house less well-off families. He retains a significant stake in Redrow through another company, Bridgemere.

The airline axed 54 flights scheduled to take off and land at Gatwick Airport on Sunday, while a further 55 were grounded today, causing misery for 15,000 passengers as Britain's hot spell sparked storms. People caught up in the chaos were outraged, claiming there were just two members of staff at the airport who were 'swamped' by thousands of stranded easyJet customers. Sam Spencer, who was due to fly to Nice from Gatwick, told MailOnline: 'The lady at the desk was polite but fairly unhelpful, the man on her radio literally told her: "Tell them all to s*d off".' EasyJet has stated that the disruption is 'outside of our control and is considered to be an extraordinary circumstance'. Due to the weather, this means that passengers will not be eligible for flight delay compensation. Suspicious passengers claimed that the issue was due to a lack of air crew - not storms - because rivals at Gatwick such as Norwegian and British Airways are not suffering in the same way. One critic tweeted: 'Why only easyJet? Surely other airlines would cancel their flights because of the weather'.