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House prices cut £30k as stamp duty return blights the market Sales will drop 70pc in areas that benefited most from tax cut, agents warn Homeowners in the South East and East of England are braced for house price falls of £30,000 once the stamp duty holiday ends on March 31, experts have warned. Sellers in such areas will be hit hardest by the abrupt removal of the tax relief and agents said a quarter of agreed sales would fall through if buyers cannot transact in time. Some vendors have cut tens of thousands of pounds off prices in a desperate bid to make quick deals.

Sponsored by: Ferrin Peterson celebrates her first Maryland winner at Laurel Park Jockey Ferrin Peterson got off to a winning start on her first day in Maryland, booting home Spanish d'Oro to a 9-1 upset victory in Friday's ninth race finale at Laurel Park in Laurel, Md. Trained by Hamilton Smith and owned by his older brother, Franklin 'Goree”' Smith, Spanish d'Oro ($20.20) ran seven furlongs in 1:27.40 over a fast main track to capture the maiden claiming event for 3-year-olds by a length over fellow long shot Goldie's Boy. Peterson, 28, had two mounts on Friday's card, also fin...

Heart to Hands Food Drive collects 4,618 pounds of food The eighth annual Heart to Hands Food Drive collected 4,618 pounds of food Nov. 8 to Dec. 14, a 1,200-pound increase from 2019. Two hundred pounds of the food collected went to the UC San Diego Triton Food Pantry, along with a $200 contribution from an unidentified donor. Feeding San Diego received 1,140 pounds of donated food and the San Diego Food Bank received 2,758 pounds. The Heart to Hands Food Drive collected pet food for the first time, donating 520 pounds to the San Diego Humane Society. Over its eight-year history, the drive h...

Print Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, the humble biochemist who helped revolutionize scientists’ ability to design drugs, grow vaccines, screen for disease and enrich crops, has retired as a senior researcher at the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla. The 89-year-old Smith told the Union-Tribune that he is in declining health and is moving back to Maryland. It was there that his career took off in the 1960s when he discovered “molecular scissors” that can be used to study and alter DNA, the code of life. Smith has struggled to recover from lymphoma, which was discovered in his chest i...