Enraged beach hut owners have threatened legal action after their local authority decided to class their cabins as second homes and charge them full council tax. The huts in Mudeford Spit fell into ...

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The scrapping of council tax discount for beach huts in Mudeford has been approved by BCP Council’s Cabinet. BCP Council announced on January 6 that it would be charging the full council tax rate for ...

BCP Council said the change could raise £211,000 [Getty Images] Beach hut owners say they are looking into the legal basis of plans to reclassify their huts as second homes for the purposes of council ...

Beach hut owners have claimed they are being treated like 'wealthy NIMBYs' after they were ordered to pay full council tax on their 'second homes'. The huts, worth around half a million pounds each, ...

Proposals to increase charges for car parks by 10p for two hours and beach hut rental by 3.8% have been revealed by East Suffolk Council. The council, led by a Green, Liberal Democrat and Independent ...

According to a post from the Riviera Beach Police Department, a 52-year-old Pompano Beach man suddenly went into a free fall when his powered paraglider failed off Ocean Reef Park just before noon.

A 71-year-old man was walking his dog, Lulu, in Nelson Bay in Port Stephens just before 9am on Tuesday when the pair were allegedly struck by a car, which failed to stop and fled the scene. The man ...

A motion to fire Flagler County Administrator Heidi Petito failed to get a second vote from the board. Commissioner Kim Carney, who made the motion, cited a lack of confidence and poor communication.

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