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CBI boss Rain Newton-Smith is calling on the Government to draw up a ‘serious plan’ to cut power bills and invest in energy security.
A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Confidence in the strength of the UK economy has fallen from 45% in May 2015 to 28% a decade later following a cost-of-living crisis, Brexit, Covid and geopolitical upheaval, according to a ...
Five of JMW Turner’s works are to be auctioned across three sales on the 250th anniversary of the painter’s birth. Born in 1775, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter and printmaker during the ...
First Minister John Swinney has urged voters in the Hamilton by-election to reject the “gutter politics” of Reform UK as polls open. The vote sparked by the death of Scottish Government minister ...
Judy Murray is launching an initiative encouraging primary-age girls to participate in competitive sport and to mentor each other.
Charities and school leaders welcomed the change but urged the Government to reconsider the two-child benefit cap to ease poverty levels.
Women are less likely than men to be given treatment for a potentially fatal heart condition, according to a new analysis. Researchers found women are 11% less likely to be referred to a hospital ...
In a speech on Thursday, Mel Stride is expected to promise the Conservatives will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford.
A teenager has described how getting into nature with a Belfast Hills project is helping with managing anxiety. It comes as more than a quarter of parents or guardians across the UK have said their ...
Featured on the main set of six stamps are the Airy Transit Circle Telescope; Flamsteed House; the Great Equatorial Telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the UK; the Annie Maunder ...
Calls to ban the damaging fishing practice in England’s marine protected areas have been intensifying ahead of a major UN ocean conference ...