30 h. ago Retail and hospitality in London face extra £2bn in costs from this week

Lower business rates, higher minimum wages and National Insurance Contributions all pile on the pressure

Economics

52 h. ago Arsenal and Tottenham announce historic first North London derby in new stadium

Arsenal and Tottenham will play an extra North London derby fixture this summer when they meet in Hong Kong as part of their respective preparations for the 2025-26 season

Politics

3 d. ago Businesses face billions of extra costs as wages and taxes to increase

Retail and hospitality bosses have warned that higher labour costs and taxes are set to push up prices for customers across the UK.

Economics

4 d. ago Woman taken to hospital after being hit by car at popular retail park

South Wales Police said enquiries into the incident are ongoing

Events

6 d. ago Why bloated budgets mean open world games are starting to think small – but mighty

After years of soaring costs and ever-expanding maps, open world games are getting smaller, and developers are creating richer landscapes in the processFor more than 20 years the action adventure genre has been dominated by open-world games. They started in quite a constrained way, with titles such as Shenmue and Driver offering miniature cities to wander about, but during the 21st century, they grew to encompass whole kingdoms. Now we have titles such as Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Elden Ring and Death Stranding that contain vast and highly varied environments; Minecraft worlds are reportedly 60,000km wide. And let’s not forget space sims such as Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky, which effectively contain whole galaxies.This whole design model, however, is starting to seem a teeny bit unsustainable. Not only is it astonishingly expensive to build giant worlds (it’s rumoured that the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost in the region of $2bn), but the market is also sat...

Politics

1 week ago UFC London bonuses: Trio of thrilling submissions earn extra $50K

UFC London bonuses: Trio of thrilling submissions earn extra $50K  MMA Fighting

Events

1 week ago Sadiq Khan backs London 'tourist tax' which would see visitors charged extra for stays in hotels and Airbnbs

Mayor says many travellers ‘don’t really mind paying the few extra euros’ when they visit cities like Paris and Berlin

Society

2 w. ago Mayor announces extra funding to support London's domestic abuse victims

Sir Sadiq Khan says survivors must have confidence to report abuse, as he warns ‘huge amount of improvement’ needed in criminal justice system

Events

3 w. ago ‘Eiffel Tower of the north’? Manchester United unveil 100,000

Officials say plan will create 92,000 jobs and 17,000 homesArchitect Norman Foster puts ‘vast umbrella’ over groundA new 100,000-seat stadium that will be the largest in the UK. A venue covered in a “vast umbrella” that would exceed the scale of Christo’s wrapping of the Reichstag in 1995. A trident of masts, the tallest of which is higher any other building in Manchester. Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s vision for a new Old Trafford is taking shape, and the ambition extends beyond the “Wembley of the North”.On Tuesday designs were unveiled for Manchester United’s proposed new home, to be built on the site of the Old Trafford car park. The project was initiated by a call from Ratcliffe to Norman Foster and scoped out by a taskforce led by Sebastian Coe, and the cast list endorsing it is gold-plated. At a projected cost of £2bn, and to be assembled using prefabricated “modules” shipped down the Manchester ship canal, it could be delivered in five years, the architects suggest. Foster + Partners ...

Politics

3 w. ago Lower Thames Crossing has cost £1.2bn even before construction starts

Outlay on items including consultants, planning and legal fees jumps from £800mn two years ago

Economics