Enduring love
The Queen and Prince Philip celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.
They are not the first public figures to reach this milestone — former US president George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara did so in 2015, while the UNO Center for Public Affairs has calculated that around 40,000 American couples have been married for at least as long.
The Queen and Duke have some catching up to do with some of their own subjects, too. Karam and Kartari Chand married in the Punjab in 1925, moved to Bradford in 1965 and in December 2015 celebrated their 90th wedding anniversary before Karam died ten months later, aged 110. Kartari celebrated her 105th birthday earlier this month.
When building boomed
Philip Hammond wants Britain to build 300,000 new homes a year. Last year we built 170,450. How does that compare with the most and least active years since 1949?
| MOST | |
| 1968 | 425,830 |
| 1967 | 415,460 |
| 1966 | 396,011 |
| 1965 | 391,230 |
| 1964 | 383,190 |
| LEAST | |
| 2013 | 135,340 |
| 2010 | 135,970 |
| 2011 | 140,680 |
| 2012 | 141,550 |
| 2014 | 145,010 |
Source: Department for Communities and Local Government
Driven away
The Chancellor wants driverless cars on Britain’s roads by 2021 but says that this will not lead to unemployment.
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