2 h. ago Tiny market town packed with independent shops has one of the UK's best high streets

Crickhowell in Powys, Wales, has been named as the UK's Best High Street, and is a place where small businesses thrive and locals are fiercely proud of their town centre

Economics

2 h. ago The 'once rammed' town packed with shops that people now leave in droves

'It used to be lovely here.'

Politics

5 h. ago 'Magical' village packed with independent shops, pubs and 'spectacular' church

This charming village near the Peak District offers an impressive food scene, independent shops, and the stunning 14th century 'cathedral of the Peaks'

Politics

27 h. ago Robotic dogs with billionaire faces leave people 'unsettled' at art exhibit

Artist Beeple has created a strange exhibit at Art Basel Miami featuring 10 robotic 'animals' wearing hyperrealistic faces of billionaires including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

Politics

66 h. ago Thousands of crisp packets are urgently recalled in UK over dangerous health risk – as shoppers are warned ‘do NOT eat’

THOUSANDS of packets of popular crisps have been urgently recalled across the UK that could pose a serious health risk to some consumers. Shoppers have been warned to not eat the items after a warning was released by the the Food Standards Agency. Calbee Group UK Ltd is recalling its Hot & Spicy Chips and...

Events

3 d. ago People are using sick days instead of annual leave in worrying trend

People haven't used all their holiday days but 28 per cent have taken a day off sick when they weren't physically unwell

Politics

3 d. ago Drunk clubber mounts pavement in car leaving four people injured in horror incident

Christopher Parry has been jailed after driving off from nightclub drunk, injuring a man that tried to stop him and three others.

Events

3 d. ago Flooding swamps Greek holiday hotspot as Athens is battered by storm and deluge leaves people trapped in their homes

WILD weather has hit a Greek holiday hotspot, with roads being turned into rivers due to torrential rain and flash flooding. Videos of the aftermath of the heavy rainfall in Athens posted to social media show cars floating down streets and torrential rain making it impossible for drivers to see. Storm Byron has left residents...

Events

4 d. ago BBC finance expert on 26% pension change and how Brits can benefit from scheme

Draw downs allow Brits to take 25% out of their pension pot tax free and leave the rest invested, and the amount of people opting for this approach has increased dramatically

Economics

5 d. ago Deadly Asian floods are no fluke. They’re a climate warning, scientists say

Southeast Asia has been hit by unusually severe floods this year, with late storms killing more than 1,200 people and leaving hundreds missing across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand

Events

6 d. ago What you need to know about million pound shopping centre demolition as regeneration of town ramps up

Prestwich is set for more than £100M of regeneration investment

Economics

7 d. ago How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide

Extreme weather has killed nearly 1,000 people across southern and south-eastern Asia as cyclones turbocharged rain systems across the regionTropical cyclones have combined with heavy monsoon rains to lay waste to swathes of Asia, killing close to 1,000 people and leaving many more homeless.Parts of the Indonesian archipelago have been particularly hard hit, with the death toll reaching 442 following flooding that began about a week ago, a number that is expected to rise. Nearly 300,000 people have been displaced and nearly 3,000 houses damaged, including 827 that were flattened or swept away. Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago Million pound cost of shopping centre demolition as town’s regeneration ramps up

Detailed plans to clear a large section of Prestwich centre and then rebuild there are expected by the spring

Economics

9 d. ago Labour urged to tackle Britain's 'brain drain' as thousands of young people leave UK for life abroad

Some 174,000 16 to 34-year-olds left the country in the year to March, figures released by the Office for National Statistics show

Politics

1 week ago 'Get out while you still can!' PETER HITCHENS warns Britain may soon be 'impossible to live in and to escape'

I do tell people to leave the country if they can. But that's an important detail. The 'if they can' bit. It's getting harder and harder to get out of here.

Events

1 week ago 'People are leaving Salford because of M60 junction, they can't get to work'

Concerns have been raised about the impact of a major junction.

Politics

1 week ago UK government welcomes sharp fall in net migration but says more needs to be done

The British government has welcomed the news that net migration in the U.K., the difference between people moving to the country long-term and those leaving, fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June, but insisted that the figure must fall further to ease community tensions

Politics

1 week ago Reeves launches £26 billion tax raid as welfare spending rises

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s announcements will leave 1.7 million people paying more income tax.

Economics

1 week ago Vogue Williams' 'grim' social media blunder left family home 'overrun by strangers'

Vogue Williams recalled on her podcast how her Facebook post inviting people to collect items from her late father's home backfired, leaving the property overrun with strangers

Politics

1 week ago Flash floods and landslides on Indonesian island leave at least 10 dead and others missing

Torrential rains have unleashed flash floods and triggered landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 10 people and leaving six others missing

Events