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In a speech on Thursday, Mel Stride is expected to promise the Conservatives will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford.
A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
If crop condition is maintained at current levels, yields would be in line with last year, leading to a worse harvest than 2024, due to fewer acres of oilseed rape and spring barley planted ...
The organisation representing private landlords warned the current timeline for implementing improved minimum standards is unachievable.
Calls to ban the damaging fishing practice in England’s marine protected areas have been intensifying ahead of a major UN ocean conference ...
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.
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 ...
It comes a couple of weeks after the UK struck a proposed deal with the EU to reduce the number of post-Brexit checks.
Cancer patients are facing “dangerous” delays to their care because of staff shortages across the UK, according to a report. And patient safety is being put at risk because of gaps in the cancer ...
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.