AUDIO NEWS: Tradespeople flooded with DIY repair work and builder hunts down big cat in Surrey

Tradespeople are being overwhelmed with the volume of DIY disasters they're asked to fix, China asked to explain embassy plans and builder hunts down big cats in Surrey

Tradespeople are being overwhelmed by the sheer scale of DIY disasters they’re being asked to fix — that’s according to research from Premierline. 

The insurance broker estimates that one in four trade professionals are regularly called to repair DIY projects gone wrong.

Over half customers also admitted to spending more money fixing a problem, than they would have had to pay a tradesperson to do the job originally. 

The average cost of getting a tradie to rectify botched DIY work was over £1,500.

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China has been asked to explain why key parts of its plans for its new embassy have been ‘greyed out’.

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has given Beijing and its consultants until next week to respond as part of the planning process for China’s London-based super embassy.

The £255 million pound project is being looked at by ministers after Tower Hamlets rejected the embassy plan over safety and security concerns in 2022.

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A builder from Surrey, is convinced that there are five ‘big cats’ living within a 10-mile radius of Guildford. 

Gary Ridley, an amateur big cat investigator has compiled dossiers of hundreds of sightings, largely through Freedom of Information requests.

Ridley, who has set up Surrey Panther Watch to log sightings, aims to conclusively prove” that there are big cats living in the wild.

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