30 minutes ago Halfords warns it may raise repair garage prices after £23m cost hit from Budget

The retailer said the cost implications of Budget measures will be ‘particularly acute’ for the firm.

Economics

39 minutes ago Donny Osmond to make Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat comeback in Scotland

The singer will be starring in the hit musical for four weeks only.

Politics

56 minutes ago Ignore the online CV truthers. If anything, Rachel Reeves is overqualified to be UK chancellor | Gaby Hinsliff

Gordon Brown and George Osborne studied history, but neither faced the questions of suitability levelled at the first woman in the jobRachel Reeves is not for turning. She won’t be pushed around, knocked off course, undermined by backbench mutterings or criticism from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The message the chancellor seemingly wants to send this week is that it’s her way or the highway, and if this attempt to stamp her authority on a jittery political moment feels a bit defensive or even impervious to criticism – well, perhaps it’s worth acknowledging that that authority is now being challenged in ways that strangely didn’t happen to her male predecessors.Is it just a coincidence that the first female chancellor is also the first to be swarmed by a mob of online tr...

Politics

58 minutes ago Cardiff residents react to 'loudest hail they've ever heard' as lightning and thunder hits after Storm Bert

As Storm Bert finally moved away from Wales the country was met with thunder, lightning and hail

Events

79 minutes ago Joe Root hits back at Darren Lehmann after criticism: ‘I’ll do my job and he can do his’

The former Australia coach said Root was not a great of the gamedue to a lack of a Test century in Australia

Events

1 hour ago Director of Brad Pitt and George Clooney hit says he ‘returned money’ for sequel as he doesn’t trust AppleTV+

‘Wolfs’ filmmaker Jon Watts says he ‘no longer trusted’ Apple TV+ ‘as a creative partner’

Events

1 hour ago Only people with the very highest IQ can work out who the man is looking at in this photo

Reckon you have the sharpest of minds and the IQ of a modern day Einstein? It's time to put that theory to the test with this mind-boggling brainteaser that is leaving Brits scratching their heads

Politics

2 hours ago Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee

I have campaigned for the right to avoid a needlessly agonising death all my life. After this vote, I hope I will no longer have toThe time has come for a defining moment early in a Labour era that has so far lacked definition. This is the week a Labour parliament can make its mark in the long campaign for personal freedoms over birth, sex, life and death. If not, if MPs prove pusillanimous in the face of loud but thinly supported objections backed by organised religion, they will ignore the opinion of a public that is strongly in favour: the British social attitudes survey’s first polling in 1983 found 77% of people in favour of assisted dying, and that figure has hardly varied since then. After campaigning all my life on this, I feel: if not now, then probably not in my lifetime.Every...

Politics

3 hours ago Wall Street banks back UK stocks to outshine Europe under Trump tariffs

Analysts point to lack of manufacturers that could be hit and high weighting in banks and oil stocks

Politics