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The number of first-time buyers rose by almost a fifth last year, according to data from Halifax. The bank said 2024 saw 341,068 people buy their...
Deep under the Bank of England, in a network of vaults into which cameras are rarely admitted, sits the world’s second biggest known trove of gold....
TikTok is back on Apple and Google’s US app stories after President Trump said the tech giants would not be fined if they reactivated it. They...
Valentine’s Day might be a gift-giving occasion your wallet could do without, but it’s thousands of pounds cheaper than being alone. Being single costs £2,533 more...
In what sounds like a plot straight out of Succession, there is a rise in parents leaving more in their will for one child than another....
The US president has promised to target countries which charge tax on US imports by matching them with a reciprocal tariff. Donald Trump has ordered his...
Taken at face value Donald Trump’s embrace of reciprocal tariffs is a declaration of total trade war, that would amount to perhaps the single biggest peacetime...
Crisis-hit Thames Water has launched a bid to charge its customers more over the next five years than the industry regulator will allow, arguing it has...
The UK economy grew fractionally during the final three months of 2024, according to early official figures, which ease the immediate risk of a recession. The...
Yes there are all sorts of provisos. The UK economy is still flatlining. A 0.1% expansion is about as close as you can get to zero....
The government is continuing to put Post Office victims through “hell” in their fight for redress, Sir Alan Bates has told Sky News. More than 240...
Thames Water is being investigated over late delivery of environmental improvement schemes, the industry regulator has announced. Ofwat said the enforcement case against the company, currently...
The boss of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has said she is “appalled and disgusted” by the sex trafficking claims against her predecessor Mike Jeffries. Fran Horrowitz,...
Heathrow is set to announce a multibillion-pound expansion plan to create extra capacity at the airport – as it prepares its proposal for a third runway....
A member of the Bank of England’s rate-setting committee has made a case for a steeper cut to interest rates on expectations that an inflation “hump”...
Octopus Energy Group is wading into the battle for the future of Britain’s biggest water company as part of a consortium which includes the French infrastructure...
OpenAI’s chief executive and co-founder has told Sky News that his platform is “not for sale” after a group led by Elon Musk launched an unsolicited...
Donald Trump has signed two proclamations imposing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports to the US. A proclamation is a form of presidential directive...
British wholesale gas prices have reached a more than two-year high, risking yet more expensive energy bills. Low rates of gas storage in Britain and across...
Few materials matter quite as much as steel and aluminium. Steel, an alloy of iron and carbon, is the main metallic ingredient in the structures we...
Sir Keir Starmer says US-UK trade talks ‘well advanced’ and rejects ‘knee-jerk’ response to Donald Trump tariffs
Bodies still remain among the ‘collapsed and inclining’ buildings in quake-hit Mandalay
Father demands protection after Gaza aid workers’ deaths
Man shot dead by armed police at Milton Keynes railway stationSir Keir Starmer says US-UK trade talks ‘well advanced’ and rejects ‘knee-jerk’ response to Donald Trump tariffsBodies still remain among the ‘collapsed and inclining’ buildings in quake-hit MandalayFather demands protection after Gaza aid workers’ deaths
China launches large-scale military drills around Taiwan and calls its president a ‘parasite’
Devastation in Myanmar: how the earthquake has left some areas almost completely destroyed
Marine Le Pen speaks for first time after being barred from French presidential election
