8 h. ago Boss of ‘Monty Python pub’ forced to close 10 days before award win blames Liz Truss

EXCLUSIVE: A stunning, award-winning, community boozer was given a lauded design award but by the time they were handed they had already shuttered the business for good

Events

3 d. ago London council confirms two more schools to close leaving eight shut in three years in single borough

London schools being forced to close as they battle funding issues amid exodus of families from parts of capital

Politics

6 d. ago Record number of cyclists report drivers passing too close after major Highway Code rule change in 2022

Some 15,779 clips of dangerously close overtaking were submitted by cyclists to police forces in England and Wales last year.

Transport

7 d. ago Real Housewives star's care home gets damning Ofsted report and and is forced to close

Moss Farm Children's Home in Altrincham, Cheshire, was run by Real Housewives of Cheshire star Ampika Pickston and her company AP Care Homes Limited, but it's been forced to close

Society

7 d. ago Real Housewives star's care home gets damning Ofsted report and is forced to close

Moss Farm Children's Home in Altrincham, Cheshire, was run by Real Housewives of Cheshire star Ampika Pickston and her company AP Care Homes Limited, but it's been forced to close

Society

7 d. ago Branch of major chain is forced to close after being hit with ZERO star hygiene rating

A branch of Bella Italia has been forced to close after it was hit with a zero food hygiene rating and ordered to make urgent improvements.

Events

1 week ago DAN HODGES: Rachel Reeves has opted to spend like a drunken sailor on shore leave in the Chagos Islands. It's now a matter of 'when' not 'if' she comes back to pick our pockets with tax rises

After the statement Rachel Reeves just delivered to unveil the Government's Spending Review, it appears she is actually cosplaying at being the new Liz Truss, says DAN HODGES.

Economics

1 week ago Donald Trump faces Lettuce Liz Truss crisis over 'crazy' tax cuts, says ex IMF man

Donald Trump is heading for a "Lettuce" Liz Truss "moment" after spooking the markets with his "beautiful" tax cut bill, economists say.

Politics

2 w. ago Two London private schools are forced to close following Labour's VAT raid on fees

Both schools cited the tax as they announced they would be forced to close their doors within the next year

Politics

2 w. ago Zia Yusuf’s return to Reform UK ‘great news’, says deputy leader

He quit as chairman on Thursday but has now said that was the result of ‘exhaustion’ and working for 11 months ‘without a day off’.

Politics

2 w. ago Squirming Tory refuses FOUR times to apologise for Liz Truss chaos in excruciating BBC clash

Chris Philp, who held a key Treasury role during Liz Truss' short spell in No10, was pressed by Laura Kuenssberg to say sorry as the Tories try and move on from the misery caused when in power

Events

2 w. ago Reform's economic policies are 'Liz Truss on steroids', says Tory Chris Philp (who backed her mini

Chris Philp took aim at his former boss as he tried to discredit the low-tax, high-spending policies of Nigel Farage 's party, which is leading in the polls.

Economics

2 w. ago Owner of top Welsh restaurant forced to close down speaks out

Michelle Evans, who runs Paternoster Farm, and her family have been fighting for answers from the council

Politics

2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch refuses to kick Liz Truss out of Conservative Party

The Tory leader suggested such a move would be ‘neither here nor there’ for voters’ perception of the party.

Politics

2 w. ago 'Out of control' pub forced to close after man's jaw broken in brawl

Cops in the area requested Wirral Council review the licence for the Upton Road business, with a hearing taking place on June 5.

Politics

2 w. ago Tories at war as 'Lettuce' Liz Truss tears into shadow chancellor and says 'leaf it out'

Liz reacted furiously after Mel Stride said the Tory Party has to “put our hands up” to past mistakes - and says she didn't make an error when he tanked the economy

Events

2 w. ago Man mauled to death by three tigers after 'jumping into enclosure'

A zoo in Punjab, Pakistan was forced to close its doors after a man was found mauled to death by three tigers who left his shoes to toy with the next morning

Events

2 w. ago Liz Truss lashes out as Tories apologise for her disastrous mini

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride will vow the Tories will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford as he warned his party ‘needs to shine the light of truth on what Reform is all about’

Events

2 w. ago Tories try to bury the Liz Truss ghost as Mel Stride hammers ex

The shadow chancellor Mel Stride laid into the former Conservative PM's 49-day tenure, saying it had 'put at risk the very stability which [we] had always said must be carefully protected'.

Politics

2 w. ago Tories will ‘never again’ put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says

Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PMUK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservatives will “never again” put the economy at risk with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the shadow chancellor has said, in the party’s clearest repudiation yet of the former prime minister.In a speech on the economy, Mel Stride went beyond any comments made by the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, to accept that Truss’s September 2022 fiscal plans, which involved about £45bn in unfunded tax cuts and quickly unravelled, badly dented the party’s reputation. Continue reading...

Economics