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Homebase to live on within former stores reopened under the Range name
Homebase is to live on as a brand online and within up to 70 former stores reopened next year as branches of the Range, its new owner has announced.
CDS said it would open the first three converted outlets from the collapsed DIY retailer in January under the Range Superstores …
Dozens of MPs in Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party agree prime minister should resign
catastrophic resignation of his deputy
– a sign he’s completely lost support from what were crucial loyalists.Several Canadian media outlets, including the …
‘It’s a huge problem’: what’s gone wrong at the ONS and why does it matter?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS), with its number-crunchers and crack-of-dawn data dumps, is an unlikely backdrop for turmoil.
But in recent months the Newport-based institution has come under repeated attack over questionable jobs figures, which experts have said leave policymakers“flying blind”. On top of this, questions are now being …
UK weather: mild Christmas forecast with temperatures of up to 15C
Forecasters are predicting one of the mildest Christmases on record with temperatures potentially peaking at 15C and no chance of snow anywhere in the UK.
The unseasonably clement weather means no major travel disruption is expected despite possibly the busiest Christmas on the roads for three years.
A new warm …
Saudis ‘had asked for extradition of suspect in Magdeburg attack’
A source close to the Saudi government has told Agence France-Presse that Saudi authorities previously requested the extradition of the main suspect in Friday’s Christmas market attack in Germany, as multiple agencies admitted they had received warnings about him.
Echoing reporting from over the weekend, the source said Saudi Arabia …
Family separated on Channel crossing cannot reunite in UK, court rules
The court of appeal has ruled that a couple who were separated from their two young children on a migrant dinghy near northern France after the mother fell overboard cannot travel to the UK to be reunited with them.
The Kurdish family, including two children aged nine and six, boarded …
Suspected arson attack in Birmingham after car driven into shopfront
Police are investigating a suspected arson attack in Birmingham that led to five people being evacuated in the early hours of Monday morning when a car was driven into the front of a shop and set on fire.
Nobody was injured in the blaze, which police said began shortly before …
UK shoppers spending more on the high street than last Christmas
Shoppers surged on to UK high streets on Saturday amid signs they are spending more than last year in the run-up to Christmas as retailers hope for a last-minute rush.
Spending was up 2.3% year on year during the seven weeks to 20 December, led by a 6.1% rise online, …
Sweden says China denied request for prosecutors to board ship linked to severed cables
Sweden has accused China of denying a request for Swedish prosecutors to board a Chinese ship that has been linked to the cutting of two undersea cables in the Baltic despite Beijing pledging “cooperation” with regional authorities.
The Yi Peng 3 left the waters it had been anchored in since …
Is Labour to blame for slowing UK economy? It’s more complex than that
Economic growth revised to zero, stubbornly high inflation, and warnings of job losses on the horizon. After less than six months in office, a narrative is taking hold that Keir Starmer’s government is fumbling his number one mission to reboot Britain’s economy.
On the eve of the prime minister’s first …