British Homes Are 'Shoe Boxes' That Keep Families From Living Happily, Says Architect Group

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Bad news for homeowners in Britain: an architects' group has concluded that many new houses in Britain are "shameful shoebox homes" that are too small to allow families to peacefully coexist inside them, according to AFP.

According to new research from the group, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the floor area of the average new three-bedroom home is 947 square feet, some 86 square feet short of the recommended minimum.

RIBA chief exec Harry Rich had this to say:

Our homes should be places that enhance our lives and well-being. However, as our new research confirms, thousands of cramped houses–shameful shoe-box homes–are being churned out all over the country, depriving households of the space they need to live comfortably and cohesively.

The architects' group blamed real estate agents and home builders for failing to give out adequate information when selling homes.

But home builders fired back, saying that building bigger homes could make them too expensive for many potential buyers, a problem that already faces many young people and first-time buyers AFP said.

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British Airways Faces Heat After Crew Steal Champagne And Get Naked

British Airways is may cut lucrative flights to Nairobi following scandalous behavious by its crew, reports The Daily Mail.

An internal memo in from the company suggests the behavior of the so-called "mixed fleet", made up of young recruits, may lead the airline to cancel flights to Nairobi if captains can't keep their crew in order.

A source within the airline told the Mail:

"Mixed fleet crews are basically kids of 18 and 20 years old, in their first jobs on pretty low pay, who think it’s a wonderful life staying in posh hotels.

"They pilfer champagne from the aircraft to drink in the crew hotels because buying their own drinks in a five-star hotel is too expensive.

"Then they run amok, holding wild room parties and going topless in the pool."

The parties can get even wilder than that, another source told the paper:

"In Cyprus once, crew returning to the hotel from a night out found a donkey tied up in a field. The donkey was led back to the hotel and the crew managed to get it into a lift and up to the fourth floor, before hotel security intervened."

Other cities that create problems are the U.S. cities of Las Vegas and San Diego, where the young staff resort to binge drinking in their room to get around age limits.

What is so particularly outrageous about Nairobi remains unclear.

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