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
The John Lewis boss exits story looks, on the surface, like a routine corporate departure dressed up in diplomatic language. It is not. The abrupt announcement that Peter Ruis would
A Heathrow pipe burst flooding incident shut road access to Terminals 2 and 3 in the early hours of the morning, leaving passengers stranded during one of the airport's busiest
A new analysis makes the arithmetic of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs brutally clear: unless you have nearly £100,000 of discretionary income a year, you will spend more on the medication than
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) puts the cost of the Burnham EV targets consultation starkly: if the government cuts the 2030 electric vehicle target from 80% to 50%
The disposable BBQ ban in the UK came into force on 14 August 2026, issued under the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 by the Office for Product Safety and Standards
The White House report on the China tariff evasion network, published on 14 August, names more than 40 countries across three tiers of culpability, accusing them of allowing Chinese goods