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UK Business
Jobless rate climbs to 5.2% over five years as pay rises decelerate
New official figures have laid bare a deteriorating picture for the UK labour market, with unemployment reaching its highest level…
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UK Crime
Failure of government’s IPP scandal strategy exposed in confidential prison files
Hundreds of prisoners in England and Wales are condemned to a future with no end in sight, trapped in a…
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UK Business
UK Lenders to Develop Rival System for Mastercard and Visa Over Concerns on US Politics
Britain’s largest banks are gathering this week to accelerate plans for a sovereign payments network, a direct response to escalating…
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UK News
Exhibition reveals women instrumental to Dickens’s career
A new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum is set to overturn the long-held view of Charles Dickens as a…
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UK Business
Unemployment decline in Wales contrasts with UK trend
New figures from the Office for National Statistics have laid bare a stark divergence in the UK’s labour market, with…
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UK News
Starmer scraps proposal to postpone England’s local elections in fresh reversal
The government has capitulated to a legal threat from Nigel Farage, abruptly reversing its decision to postpone local elections in…
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UK Education
Legal case filed by students in England and Wales over Covid-19 study effects
A confidential settlement between University College London and thousands of its students has opened the floodgates for legal claims that…
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UK Business
UK bank bosses plan Visa and Mastercard competitor over Trump anxieties
In a strategic push to insulate the UK economy from geopolitical shockwaves, the country’s major banks are this week launching…
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UK Crime
Pensioner dies after rapper leaves her with 10 XL bullies to film music video
The fatal mauling of a 68-year-old woman by two XL Bully dogs in Essex has laid bare the tragic human…
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UK Environment
UK’s per-mile electric vehicle levy to burden rural motorists most
Electric vehicle drivers will begin paying a per-mile charge from 2028, as the government moves to compensate for dwindling fuel…
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