FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear

The chancellor, John Healey, has called in the CEOs of lenders including Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest for talks ahead of his crucial budget statement.

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

Since finishing my exams, I’ve been working in two garden centres as a gardener, a job which has left me feeling very connected to the outdoors and has fulfilled all my whimsical flower fairy aspirati...

The Bank has predicted that inflation will increase to around 3.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of this year and 4.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2027.

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.

Your trees will be planted alongside other native trees, and in time will transform open hillsides into healthy young woodland, helping to restore the Caledonian Forest.

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community

Local environmental campaigners and community members came together on Poole Quay on September 12, 2026, to call for an end to new oil and gas development, as the UK Government faces decisions over th...

First, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering support of my Substack publication.      During the summer of 2023, I was on a cross-Canada tour in my humble van, traversing ...

Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.

Wimborne residents joined the national campaign to Stop Rosebank, holding a placard alongside a Wimborne town sign on Friday 4 September 2026, to send a clear local message: the UK Government must not...

Jamie Dimon tells UK politicians before October budget that investment could be at risk, it is understood

I spent a day with the UK's first carbon-negative greengrocers who are changing the future for generations to come, right here in Leicester

Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

Taraneh Rahimi was told prison guards would rape her sister, Romina, if she did not sign a confession