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WH Smith has reported falling sales in its UK high street stores, while revenues rose at its more successful travel arm, as the retail group attempts to

offload its ailing town centres division

The retailer’s up-for-sale high street division – where it sells newspapers, books, stationery, cards …

Two of England’s privatised water monopolies, the South West Water owner Pennon and United Utilities, have said they will increase dividend payments to investors, as they prepare to raise household bills.

The companies said they had accepted the regulator Ofwat’s final determination of what they may charge customers – removing …

Johnny Herbert has left his role as a Formula One driver steward after the FIA said his grand prix work was “incompatible” with his job as a media pundit.

Herbert attracted criticism from Max Verstappen’s camp last season for his comments about the Red Bull driver’s performance at the Mexican …

Pressing her face to the blue bars of a pharmacy window, Fatmeh Jahaleen pleaded for just a few extra boxes of medication. She relies on the pharmacy inside an East Jerusalem clinic run by the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, for a monthly supply of blood pressure and kidney …

Rachel Reeves has confirmed that the government will throw its weight behind a third runway at Heathrow, claiming it will make the UK “the world’s best-connected place to do business”.

In a speech in Oxfordshire on her plans for national growth, the chancellor said: “We cannot duck the decision any …

Femicide will be struck from Argentina’s penal code, according to a vow from the administration of

Javier Milei

Mariano Cúneo Libarona, the justice minister, said the government will “eliminate the figure of femicide from the …

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Two groups of women are playing cricket matches in Melbourne on Thursday – with two very different dreams on the line. At the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia will go

face to face with England

The bishop of Liverpool has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by two women.

John Perumbalath denies the allegations from 2023, which come months after the Church of England was embroiled in an abuse scandal that triggered the

resignation of the archbishop of Canterbury

Perumbalath said …

The UK government is reportedly considering subsidising purchases of electric vehicles by guaranteeing consumer loans, as it looks at ways to boost sales that are failing to reach official targets.

Ministers have started talks with the car finance sector on how to make more low-interest or interest-free loans available to …