Anglian Water is facing paying out £62.8m after an investigation by the industry regulator found a "serious breach" in how the company managed its sewage works. Ofwat has proposed a…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will visit a tin mine due to be reopened with government backing during a trip to Cornwall. She said the £28.6m National Wealth Fund investment to Cornish…
Parents in China are being offered 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of their children under the age of three in the government's first nationwide subsidy aimed at…
The US and China are due to start a fresh round of talks on Monday as expectations grow that the world's two biggest economies could agree a 90-day extension to…
Private tenants in Ealing have faced the largest rent increases in London over the past five years, new figures suggest. The rental index report by HomeLet suggested rents in the…
After weeks of tense negotiations between their top trade officials, the European Union and US have finally struck a framework deal - and it comes on the eve of America's…
EU-China relations have reached an "inflection point", European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a one-day summit in Beijing. "As our co-operation has…
Low-income households in Hull can apply for funding to make their homes warmer and cheaper to heat. Hull City Council said it had secured £3.4m from the Department for Energy…
A council is to hand out more air fryers to pensioners to help them reduce their household bills. Last winter North Lincolnshire Council distributed 8,000 appliances, including 6,000 energy-saving cooking…
Retailers say theft is "spiralling out of control" after official figures show shoplifting in England and Wales is at its highest level since current records began more than two decades…
