Ferguson Marine job cuts are, on their own terms, a reasonable piece of industrial management. When a shipyard finishes one contract and has nothing confirmed behind it, you trim the
Grocery price inflation slows to its lowest point since October 2024, according to new data, with British shoppers swapping hot meals for dips, olives and cold cuts during last month's
Worldpanel by Numerator reports that UK grocery inflation eases to 2.1% in the four weeks to 9 August, the lowest reading since October 2024 and the fifth consecutive monthly decline,
The Warm Homes Local Grant has delivered free solar panels to a Wisbech homeowner who suspected the whole thing was a con, and then left a neighbour in Little Downham
The government has abandoned plans to remove affordable housing quotas on medium-sized development sites in England, after a consultation produced an overwhelmingly hostile response from housing experts, councils, and community
The Sainsbury's Facewatch false accusation that led to comedy promoter Matt Arnold being escorted from a south-east London store this week is not, by any reasonable reading, an isolated incident.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) granted Virgin Trains Channel Tunnel track access on 13 August 2026, pre-approving an agreement that permits up to 20 daily return services between
Rightmove's latest data confirms that British house prices in August have suffered their steepest seasonal decline since 2018, with the average newly-listed asking price falling 2% to £364,999, a drop
Kensington and Chelsea asking prices have fallen by just over £95,000 in a single month, dropping from £1,648,148 to £1,552,970, as a glut of properties and a weakening market hands
Ofwat's water scarcity pricing proposals have moved from consultation to concrete regulatory change, landing at precisely the moment English and Welsh households are absorbing some of the steepest bill increases
The central bank rate dilemma gripping the Federal Reserve (Fed), the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) has grown sharper this summer, as Hormuz Strait disruption
A sweeping expansion of pub planning protection will require developers across England to prove there is no reasonable prospect of keeping any pub as a going concern before they can
AI travel photo scams have found a new vector: the holiday pictures you post on Instagram or Facebook, stripped of any caption or location tag, are enough for fraudsters to
The weekend, 100 years old this year, is fraying. Not collapsing, not dying, but fraying at precisely the edges that were always its greatest strength: the shared ones. In 1926,
The Midwest Poultry Services recall of nearly 1,589,577 dozen shell eggs has been elevated to a Class I designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency's highest-risk
















