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Student rents have also risen sharply in recent years, alongside other living costs.

Once the bill becomes law, the government will ban Section 21 "no-fault" evictions, give tenants greater rights to challenge rent increases and make it illegal to discriminate against prospective tenants on benefits.

His turn in “Indecent Proposal” as the wealthy man who offers to rent his employee’s wife lives on as shorthand for tycoons who assume they can buy whatever, and whoever, they want.

Greta had been living in Hoi An with Arno, her South African partner of about two years, where the couple ran a villa renting out rooms to travellers.

Richard Holder, from the letting agency, said the rented house had last been inspected five months before the explosion, but no issues with gas were noted.