Trade minister Douglas Alexander said the headlines around free gifts for senior party figures mattered in the ‘short-term’.

JCB has posted a jump in profits for the past year but warned over “challenging” conditions in the UK construction market. The Staffordshire-based firm, well known for its yellow excavators and ...

Lewis Hamilton has urged Verstappen to ignore the penalty – the details of which are yet to be finalised by the FIA – while Lando Norris, who trails Verstappen in the standings by 52 points following ...

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 38, officials said. Another 14 miners are ...

The Environment Agency has issued a flood warning for parts of England amid concerns that affected areas could see more than a month’s worth of rain falling on Monday.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has defended Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s department for hiring a taxpayer-funded photographer. Labour officials have denied reports that it amounted to recruiting a ...

Pope Francis has cancelled his audiences on Monday because of a “slight flu-like state” just days before he is to embark on a trip to Belgium and Luxembourg, the Vatican said. The move was described ...

The data for England and Wales showed the number of pubs, including those which are vacant or to let, fell to 39,096 at the ...

Rachel Reeves’ first Labour conference speech as Chancellor comes against a backdrop of rows over cuts to winter fuel payment eligibility.

Former president Donald Trump has said he does not “think” he would run again for president in 2028 if he falls short in his bid to return to the White House in 2024. “No, I don’t. I think that will ...

REA, which is majority-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, said it was ‘genuinely disappointed’ that Rightmove’s board has not yet engaged.

Title sponsor Barclays and the new company overseeing the top two tiers of English women’s football have agreed to the biggest deal in the history of the domestic women’s game. The PA news agency ...