Exclusive: Policy initiative for England will help more young people on to property ladder, prime minister tells Guardian

Andy Burnham calls for calm as fears of unrest grow after request for countermarch in mainly nationalist area

Labour’s expansion of workers’ rights adds to pressures on the private sector

Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ...

consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.

Wirral mother among renters turning to food banks as gap between a two-bed and housing benefit hits £158 a month – rising to as much as £324 in London

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

A new report also calls for a pause on plans to equalise the minimum wage for younger workers

Vets must also tell clients if cheaper medicine is available online as part of the rule updates which surgeries have the coming months to bring in.

Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech

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.

The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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...

The government says the work will support thousands of jobs across the UK.

Post Office scandal featured heavily as the House of Lords debated duty of candour Bill.

PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour

Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent

In Tibet, CCTV captured a wall of mud and water hitting a border crossing. The missing in Nepal include more than 100 from India and 12 from the UK.

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

Government resilience campaign aims to ensure people can cope in a national disaster, in order to free resources for most vulnerable

A household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will pay £60 a year more, regulator Ofgem says.

Gas and electricity bills to rise by £60, or 4%, to highest level in three years

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...

The People’s Emergency Briefing has been screened nearly 2,000 times around the UK - and Germany is preparing its own.