One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block, says Inside Housing’s Peter Apps

<article data-history-node-id="430319" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-home-office-loses-bid-block-palestine-action-challenging-ban-terror" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-home-office-loses-bid-block-palestine-action-challenging-ban-terror" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UK Home Office loses bid to block Palestine Action from challenging ban as terror group</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The UK Home Office has lost its appeal to block Palestine Action from challenging its ban as a terror group.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed the government's attempt to stop the judicial review of its decision to ban the group.&nbsp;</p> <p>During the judgement, four judges, including the Lady Chief Justice, also granted Palestine Action's co-founder, Huda Ammori, two further grounds to challenge the ban, that were previously rejected.&nbsp;</p> <p>These grounds include that the Home Secretary, at the time, failed to consider relevant information or/and considered irrelevant information, and that she failed to follow her published policy "which prescribes that certain factors may be taken into account".</p> <p>Following Friday's judgement, Ammori praised the decision and described it as an "authoritarian ban" that must be opposed.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-home-office-loses-bid-block-palestine-action-challenging-ban-terror-group"><span class="field field-title">UK Home Office loses bid to block Palestine Action from challenging ban as terror group</span></a></h3> <div alt="building in Birmingham" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="60f684e7-056b-4558-826a-ca8e7202add0" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/VXP-VX_Staff-12-Palestine%20Action%20occupy%20an%20Israeli%20owned%20weapons%20manufacturer%20building%20in%20Birmingham-May%2025%202021.jpg" width="1800" height="1138" alt="building in Birmingham" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

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