内容摘要：It is known as the rate of economic inactivity and includes groups like students, carers, long term sick, disabled.

It is known as the rate of economic inactivity and includes groups like students, carers, long term sick, disabled.

Mr Linsell said: "Efforts should be made to ease this log-jam of people wanting to downsize and can't and that hopefully releases properties that people need to move into."He suggested the States could oversee an "exchange scheme" to help ease the jam.

Stuart Leslie, head of residential sales at Savills estate agents said increasing the amount of downsizing was not necessarily a positive move for the housing market.He said: "In reality, I think all you're doing is moving things down in a different way."I'm not sure it will actually help the amount of property available, it may cause a slight freeing up of transactions, but not any additional property."

The fall of Bashar al-Assad was almost unthinkable just a week ago, when rebels started their astonishing campaign against the regime from their base in Idlib, in Syria's north-west.This is a turning point for Syria. Assad came to power in 2000 after the death of his father Hafez, who ruled the country for 29 years - and very much like his son, with an iron fist.

Assad junior inherited a tightly controlled and repressive political structure, where opposition was not tolerated.

At first, there were hopes that he could be different – more open, less brutal. But those were short lived.The Metropolitan Police said the policy, which came into effect on Monday, "did not end working from home" and that it was aware some staff may have legitimate reasons for not following the policy due to agreed reasonable adjustment or an approved existing flexible working plan.

"Our plans will provide consistency across the Met and ensure we can deliver for our communities. We urge our staff and the union not to take further action," a spokesperson said.They added that those who continued to work from home for more than two days a week might be in breach of their contract and could lose pay.

Within the last year, a number of large London-based employers have reviewed their working policies and restricted or banned working from home.WPP, a global communications agency, announced on Tuesday it was tightening its rules and would require staff to be in four days a week from April.