Retail sales volumes were up 1.2% in April 2025, following a rise of 0.1% in March 2025 (revised down from 0.4%). April’s retail sales growth surpassed expectations, with analysts having predicted a 0 ...

Household energy bills will fall by 7% from July, Ofgem has confirmed. The typical bill will drop by £129 to £1,720 per year when the regulator’s new price cap – which sets the limit on how much firms ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “emboldening Hamas”, after the British Prime Minister joined the leaders of France and Canada in calling for a halt to Israel’s military offensive ...

Campaigners are calling on Dudley Council to finalise a deal to keep services at the Ladies Walk Health Centre and library by renewing a lease on the property, which is set to expire in March 2026. Ms ...

A NEW 100 per cent mortgage deal could be a "game-changer" for prospective homeowners, according to a property expert.

North Korea said it began steps to investigate and arrest those responsible for the failed launch of its second naval destroyer after leader Kim Jong Un expressed fury over the incident that he said ...

Some 50,000 people have been isolated by flooding along the coast of New South Wales state, north of Sydney, after days of heavy rain.

There was an ‘overarching risk’ that Leeds Trinity University was unable to ‘properly ensure quality’ at subcontractual ...

Ofgem is expected to confirm that household energy bills will fall by around 7% from July when it updates its latest price cap on Friday.

The Work and Pensions Secretary was speaking at the launch in Liverpool of a programme to get young people into education, work and training.

Labour should “shift from defence to offence, from reactive to proactive, from apology to confidence”, and show itself to be “a disruptor, not defender, of the status quo” in order to combat its ...

GfK’s survey was taken before Wednesday’s figures showed Consumer Prices Index inflation has jumped to its highest level since January 2024.