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Hearing aid users warned to disconnect them before emergency alertsCharities say the 3pm siren, designed to test whether the system could be activated in a real national emergency, might damage people's ears
Michael Gove: Holiday homes are turning seaside towns into ‘permanent Airbnbs’Interview: Housing Secretary says crackdown essential to keep properties for localsHoliday home owners are turning coastal towns into hotels with an “almost permanent Airbnb setting”, Michael Gove has said.In a full-throated defence of his plans to force second home owners to seek planning permission before renting out their properties as holiday lets, the Housing Secretary insisted that “the issue there is a simple one of fairness”.Speaking to The Telegraph, he said: “We're not saying that people shouldn't be able, when they themselves are on holiday or away for business, to let out their home through Airbnb. Of course they can.“But there is a phenomenon. And it does occur in coastal areas, and in some of our most attractive tourist areas; where you will have institutions buying up properties, and then having them in almost permanent Airbnb setting.“And what they've done is that in effect, taken local housing stock – that local people expected it to be for them – and turned it into a sort of rival hotel.”The trend “causes local people a degree of angst” as well as putting second home owners using Airbnb at a competitive advantage relative to the owner of the B&B or the owner of a small hotel, he said.“I'm not saying that people shouldn't be able to run a business like that. But if it is a business rather than a home, then we should recognise [that].”
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Lots of articles on the 'net re the emergency alarm test later today, haven't read 'em all so only just noticed it will only work on 'phones on 4G or 5G networks. According to gov.uk/alerts,Emergency alerts work on:* iPhones running iOS 14.5 or later* Android phones and tablets running Android 11 or laterAnd sometime in the future scammers are bound to send fake emergency alerts.