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UK pay growth rose in November, official figures show, keeping pressure on the Bank of England to hold interest rates amid concerns over lingering inflationary pressures.

With the government under pressure on the economy, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said annual growth in average weekly earnings rose by 5.6% …

Monday was another of those

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days when the wind barely blows, the sun doesn’t shine and it’s cold. At times, gas-fired power stations were generating 70% of the UK’s electricity while windfarms and solar facilities were contributing as little as 7% combined.

It was a reminder of why, …

Good morning. Donald Trump promised to begin his second term in a spirit of unity. In the event,

he said in his first speech as president

yesterday that he had a “mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that …

Belfast harbour is to invest £90m to upgrade its port to serve a wave of wind energy projects and cruise ships as part of a £300m investment plan.

A new deepwater quay capable of supporting wind projects will be the largest part of an investment plan that also includes the …

Electronic shelf labels, returns machines, robot bag packers and yet more self-service tills – just some of the many technologies that UK retailers are embracing as they try to solve the problem of rising labour costs.

Investment in automation was a constant drumbeat amid the flurry of festive trading updates …

Most days a thicket of couriers can be seen around the McDonald’s in Northern Ireland’s Ballymena, waiting for orders and discussing the mysteries of the systems that rule their working lives.

This week gig workers, trade unions and human rights groups

launched a campaign

for greater …

Indonesia is exploring ways to repatriate a Guantánamo Bay detainee accused of involvement in a series of deadly terror attacks, including

masterminding the 2002 Bali bombings

, according to reports.

Riduan Isamuddin

, known as Hambali, was the former leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian …

Hong Kong’s top judge has claimed the exodus of foreign judges from the judiciary’s benches since the introduction of the national security law is due to escalating geopolitical tensions and “orchestrated harassment”.

The city’s chief justice, Andrew Cheung, made the remarks at the ceremonial opening of the city’s legal year …

NGOs are calling for improvements in UK government safeguarding policies after multiple acts of violence and race hate incidents in Home Office accommodation.

The incidents include 20 assaults of asylum seekers in one small area of Essex and a separate incident where another was attacked and threatened with a knife …

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