56 h. ago Business news live: UK house prices hit record level and retail sales data shows concern for autumn

Stock market news and latest business and finance updates from Friday

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57 h. ago Business news live: UK house prices hit record level and firms shedding jobs at fastest rate in four years

Stock market news and latest business and finance updates from Friday

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57 h. ago Average UK house price hits new record high of £299,331 in August, says Halifax

The bank said house prices recorded the third month-on-month rise in a row.

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69 h. ago London council is housing 'homeless' Chagos nationals 150 miles from capital in city where rough sleepers hit record high... and local authorities 'had no idea'

A London council is housing a group of 'homeless' Chagos nationals in a block of luxury accommodation 150 miles away from the English capital, the Daily Mail can reveal.

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2 d. ago Premier League hits record £3bn transfer spree as three clubs send clear message

Premier League clubs have shattered the previous record for spending in a transfer window with Liverpool twice smashing their own record deal - but the most eye-catching movements were arguably elsewhere

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4 d. ago Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirm digital trial

Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirm digital trial  uk.finance.yahoo.com

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4 d. ago Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirms digital trial

Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirms digital trial  uk.finance.yahoo.com

Economics

4 d. ago Back to school season ushers in hunger for broadening musical horizons with 82 per cent of Scottish children interested in learning a musical instrument

New research from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) reveals that the public’s appetite to discover orchestral music has hit a record high - and, among school children in Scotland, the new academic year starts with a record number of children wanting to learn a musical instrument.

Culture

5 d. ago Business news live: Gold price hits record high and Revolut share sale gives $75bn valuation

Stock market news and latest business and finance updates from Tuesday

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5 d. ago Asian shares are mixed and gold sets a fresh record high of over $3,550 per ounce

The price of gold has hit a new record and world shares are mixed after U.S. markets were closed for the Labor Day holiday

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5 d. ago Prime Minister Keir Starmer hits new record low as Britain turns on Labour Party

Keir Starmer's approval rating has hit a record low, a City AM/Freshwater Strategy poll has shown, as pressure mounts on the government ahead of the Budget

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6 d. ago Summer 2025 was the hottest on RECORD in the UK: Average temperature hit a balmy 16.10°C

It's official - summer 2025 was the hottest summer on record for the UK.

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6 d. ago Nuclear power hits a record high as it provides 9% of the world's electricity, promising data reveals

Data from the World Nuclear Association reveals that nuclear reactors supplied more electricity than ever before last year.

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9 d. ago New Zealand’s house prices are finally falling. Could this happen elsewhere?

Prices have dropped by up to 30% in some parts of the country – but experts say obstacles to home ownership remainThree years ago, New Zealanders would have it found it almost impossible to imagine the country’s sky-high house prices falling.The market was deemed one of the least affordable in the world, with house prices nearly nine times the average income and supply dismally low. Desperate first home buyers were being squeezed out of the market by cashed-up investors. Continue reading...

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1 week ago West End businesses hit by record losses from "tourist tax" fallout

Restoring VAT free shopping for foreign tourists could deliver a £3.7 billion boost to the UK economy.

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1 week ago US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes, advocates say

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights reach record highs, the airlines running the trips have taken steps to make it more difficult to track the planes used to carry shackled people across the country and around the world

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1 week ago Fertility rate hits record low in England, Scotland and Wales

Last year’s total fertility rate of 1.41 for England and Wales was lowest since comparable data was first collected in 1938, ONS saysThe fertility rate for England and Wales has fallen for the third year in a row to reach a record low, figures show.The total fertility rate across both nations, meaning the average number of live children women can expect to have across their child-bearing life, stood at 1.41 in 2024, down from 1.42 in 2023, the lowest since comparable data was first collected in 1938, according to the Office for National Statistics. Continue reading...

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1 week ago BBC Breakfast star 'devastated' as fans fume over 'embarrassing' segment

BBC Breakfast was hit with complaints during a Guinness World Record segment on Wednesday

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1 week ago How long it will take to save for a house deposit based on your salary

The average house deposit for a first-time buyer in the UK is now £68,154 - but how long would it take to save up for this deposit if you're earning a salary of £30,000 a year, for example?

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1 week ago Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop

From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directionsOne of many things I did not expect to learn in this book is that the BBC benefited from Nazi technology. Its standard tape recorder, in use till the 1970s, was called the BTR-2: EMI’s original model, the BTR-1, had been copied from a captured example of the German “magnetophon”, as used by Hitler to record a radio broadcast.Musicians who liked fiddling with machines, too, benefited from this legacy. Delia Derbyshire, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneer who produced the original Doctor Who theme tune and otherwise particularly enjoyed playing an enamel green lampshade, influenced Paul McCartney’s experiments with tape loops, while Steve Reich hit upon his compositional technique of “phasing” phrases in and out of sync with one another on tape recorders, before training live musicians to do the same. Continue reading...

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