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Sharp fall in UK business activity forecast as economic gloom deepens
British firms are predicting a sharp fall in business activity in the new year, in the latest economic snapshot to warn of an increasingly gloomy outlook for the UK in 2025.
The growth indicator survey from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) indicates firms are preparing to cut down on …
Cadbury dropped from royal warrant list for first time in 170 years
It famously once had a glass and a half of milk in every bar, but one thing that Cadbury no longer has is royal approval, after it has been dropped from King Charles’s list of warrants.
The chocolatier was first given royal endorsement in 1854 by Queen Victoria, and was …
UK exporters still struggling with post-Brexit rules, says trade body
Many exporters are still struggling with post-Brexit trading rules, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has said, as it urges the government to press ahead with an EU “reset” in the new year.
In a survey of more than 1,000 of its member companies, the BCC found just 15% said …
‘Fobbed off and rejected’: Send crisis takes toll on families in Birmingham
It was as a last resort that Paul McAnenny launched an online fundraiser to help him pay for the fuel needed to drive his son to a special school on the other side of Birmingham, a 90-minute round trip on top of the school run for his two older daughters.
…£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support
More than £100m was spent last year by local authorities and the government on failed efforts to block support for children and young people with special educational needs in England, according to analysis by the Guardian.
The enormous cost in legal fees and staff resources came after councils won just …
Tyson Fury and the question of legacy after honourable Usyk defeat dims aura
In the end everyone runs out of road. It was probably necessary for Tyson Fury to say he was robbed in the Kingdom Arena on Saturday night. Boxing demands this level of irrationality. Logical multimillionaires do not willingly schedule a brain-jarring, soul-shredding half-hour beating from one of the most effective …
Spiralling demand and shrinking budgets: why England’s Send system is buckling
It was all meant to be so different. Announcing
sweeping reforms of the special needs provision
in England’s schools a decade ago, the then children’s minister Edward Timpson promised a simpler approach that would put the needs, rights and choices of families and children first.“For too …
Archbishop of York twice reappointed priest in sexual abuse case, report says
The archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, has come under increased pressure after reports that he twice reappointed a priest at the heart of a sexual abuse case.
A BBC investigation found Cottrell renewed David Tudor’s contract as area dean in Essex on two occasions while Cottrell was bishop of Chelmsford.
…My mother, Renee Bornstein, who has died aged 90, was a remarkable woman of strength, resilience and grace. As a child of Jewish parents in wartime France, she experienced extraordinary challenges, including a harrowing interrogation by the Gestapo in a prison cell at the age of 10.
She survived the …
The former Manchester Labour MP Andrew Bennett, who has died aged 85, devoted most of his adult life to public service, as a school teacher and a councillor, before then spending 31 years in the House of Commons. He always put the pursuit of the political results he sought before …