47 h. ago Greggs blames hot weather for sales decline but hikes menu prices across bakery favourites

Greggs is raising some of its prices this week including among some well-known and much-loved favourites.

Economics

50 h. ago Greggs calls for no ‘surprises’ in Budget as it raises prices this week

Chief executive Roisin Currie confirmed a set of price hikes would be taking place on its menu.

Economics

1 week ago HBO's Harry Potter series transports Hertfordshire town back to the 1980s as Daniel Rigby films scenes as gruff Vernon Dursley (with a very familiar newspaper on the stands!)

Given its vast budget, it's no surprise that HBO's much-anticipated adaptation of the Harry Potter book series will be heading to unlikely places, with production of the first series well underway.

Culture

1 week ago Tragic reason German millionaire has placed his 'magical' 12th

Residents were confused to see notice that the sprawling ruin and eight-acre plot where it squats had been listed for sale on Rightmove for the princely sum of £100k.

Events

2 w. ago 'I spent £7 on Aldi food shop for the week – and didn't get hungry'

A YouTuber set himself the challenge of feeding himself for a week with a budget of just £1 a day, and was left surprised by the outcome as he claimed he wasn't hungry at the end of the week

Economics

3 w. ago Shoppers rave about Huda's viral lip stain but Kiko’s budget version surprised me

Love the look of Huda's viral Lip Contour stains? We test Kiko's half-price versions to see if they are good alternatives

Economics

3 w. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to formIf Glass Onion wasn’t quite the deserving follow-up to Knives Out that many of us had hoped it would be (it was more focused on the bigger rather than better), it was at the very least a deserved victory lap. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit brought us back to the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime a dozen and it was a surprise hit, making almost eight times its budget at the global box office. While Kenneth Branagh had seen commercial success already with his Poirot revival two years prior, his retreads felt too musty, and the actor-director too miscast, for the genre to truly feel like it was entering an exciting new period.Johnson’s threequel, Wake Up Dead Man, is the second as part of his Netflix deal (one that cost an estimated $450m) and arrives as the whodunnit genre has fou...

Events

3 w. ago Apple TV+ raises subscription price again but there are ways to get it cheaper

Apple TV+ has implemented an 11% price rise but there are ways to watch hit shows like Severance, Slow Horses and The Morning Show for less.

Economics