Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

Many complaints were about affordability, after customers saw steep hikes to bills.

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

Nigel Farage has threatened to flood the House of Lords with “hundreds” of Reform UK peers and sack civil servants if necessary to deliver his part...

Exclusive: New environment secretary insists ‘nothing is off the table’ in dealing with ailing Thames Water

Sir Keir Starmer is to leave the House of Commons, resigning on the first day after the summer recess and opening the possibility of a very difficult by-election for Labour in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency, where the Greens have a very strong level of support, and Andrew Feinstein...

Ofwat has given provisional approval for 13 water companies to charge customers more to pay for investments.

Utility firm’s payment criticised by Defra and campaign groups, with some urging Andy Burnham to nationalise it

Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19.7bn, up from £17.7bn a year earlier

Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report

Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist

Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals, is dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.

Four people were hospitalised and there were more than 140 cases of sickness and diarrhoea in Devon.

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division.

Being a Cassandra is never popular. I was talking to two young people of my acquaintance yesterday, and forecast that their holiday plans for a trip to Ibiza this summer might well be disrupted by a f...

The Battle of Wood Green took place 49 years ago today (it was a Saturday). The fascist National Front having assembled well over a thousand on Ducketts Common, Turnpike Lane, marched into Wood Gre…

The rise come as the postal service faces criticism over missing delivery targets.