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Anglian Water has asked the UK’s competition watchdog to allow it to raise bills over the next five years even more than it has so far been allowed to, as it called a ruling by the water regulator “unacceptable”.

The water company, which serves 4.3 million customers across the east …

Have you ever opened up a social media page with a clear intention of what you’re doing and then instantly become distracted? You end up fiddling around and then closing the page and realizing you didn’t even do what you’d originally logged on for? Yes, the internet is a place …

UK pay growth rose in December and unemployment remained unchanged despite warnings from business that Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget would lead to job losses.

Figures from the

Office for National Statistics

From Madrid to Barcelona, restaurants and bars are brimming with people, and reservations have become essential for everything from fine dining to high-end hotels.

It’s a glimpse of how Spain has become Europe’s buzziest economy – named the

world’s best

Rob Morley has been made redundant eight times since he was a teenager, working in different ceramics factories across Staffordshire that have all shut or downsized, one by one.

From WH Grindley, where he started when he was 16, the list includes Washington Pottery, Hanley Bank, Imperial, and Eastwood among …

Good morning. Yesterday, European leaders

attended an emergency meeting in Paris

The head of Foxtel says AFL fans will “run towards the light” this season and subscribe to its pay TV service or sports streaming platform Kayo when they realise much of the season’s live Saturday coverage has gone behind a paywall.

A new AFL broadcast agreement with Fox Sports and …

More than 200 organisations worldwide have called on nations involved in producing F-35 fighter jets to “immediately halt all arms transfers to Israel” amid fears they have failed to prevent the planes from being used to violate international law.

The letter, signed by 232 civil society organisations, was sent on …

More than 44,000 children were admitted to hospital with constipation last year, according to NHS figures that highlight the potentially serious health consequences of the condition.

Data for England reveals a 60% rise in hospital diagnoses of constipation in primary schoolchildren in the past decade, with increases also seen in …

As the world’s richest person meddles at will on behalf of the far right in the German election campaign, a leftist party calling for taxing billionaires out of existence has risen from the ashes in the race’s final stretch.

The far-left Linke, successor to the East German communists who built …