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Gordon Brown has said Chancellor Rachel Reeves should exempt the Government’s defence spending pledge from her borrowing rules to help free up economic headroom. The former prime minister said the ...
A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump would be their first since Mr Trump returned to office this year.
There are delays on the Elizabeth line this morning as we bring you live updates from London's transport network.
The first detentions came as people arrived in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force.
The average house price jumped by 0.4% or more than £1,000 in cash terms in July, Halifax has reported. Across the UK, the average property value in July was £298,237, up from £297,157 in June.
The group reported pre-tax profits tumbling to £98 million for the six months to June 30, down from £338 million a year earlier.
Plans to create an enclosed area for dogs in the cemetery where the creator of Paddington Bear is buried have been scrapped.
An emergency alert drill in a month’s time “will be one of the biggest public safety exercises” in UK history, a Cabinet minister has said. Pat McFadden said mobile phone alerts could save lives ...
Because of record global heat in 2023 and 2024, the world is still going through its biggest – and fourth ever recorded – mass coral bleaching event on record, with heat stress hurting nearly 84% of ...
Mr Trump has promoted the tariffs as a way to reduce the persistent trade deficit. But importers sought to avoid the taxes by importing more goods before the taxes went into effect. As a result, the ...
Mr Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the Russian president and Mr Witkoff had a “useful and constructive ...