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A lot of adjectives have been used to describe the middle-class favourite John Lewis but rock’n’roll is probably not one, until now. The department store chain is teaming up with the indie music retailer Rough Trade to sell records.

In doing so it becomes the latest big high street name …

Downing Street could become a notably less appealing place to work in the coming weeks, with cleaners and catering staff at No 10 scheduled to begin a month-long continuous strike over pay and conditions.

The strike, scheduled to last from 24 February to 25 March in No 10 and the …

People aged 50 and over in

England

The research project involved a nationally representative group of people aged 50 and older, however respondents …

NatWest wants to increase its chief executive’s maximum pay by more than 40%, as the banking group

prepares to return to full private ownership

The high street lender, previously known as Royal Bank …

Thames Water is to appeal to the UK’s competition regulator to be allowed to raise customers’ bills over the next five years even higher than previously granted.

The water company, which serves 16 million customers in London and south-east England, will ask the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for permission …

Baby formula could be placed in standardised packaging in hospitals, the UK competition watchdog has suggested, while parents should be allowed to use gift vouchers and loyalty card points to buy formula milk, as part of efforts to

combat soaring prices and lack of choice

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Ever since Donald Trump won the US election in November, concerns about Ukraine’s fate have grown. Despite insisting on a number of occasions that he could end the war in one day, in the weeks since his inauguration there has been little clarity on Trump’s plans for the …

Japan is to flood the market with almost a quarter of a million tonnes of stockpiled rice in an unprecedented attempt to arrest soaring prices caused by

record summer heat

The government will release up to 210,000 tonnes of rice, the agriculture …

The world’s electricity use will grow every year by more than the amount consumed annually by Japan because of a surge in electric transport, air conditioning and datacentres, according to the world’s energy watchdog.

The International Energy Agency has raised its predictions for the world’s rising demand for electricity, pegging …

When Simon Waite began working as a private hire driver in 2017, it gave him the flexibility and income to spend time with his children, then aged five, 12 and 18. “One of the reasons I loved Uber was because I could now go to the school plays, my son’s …