67 m. ago Detached home sellers making £122,500 gross profit on average, analysis finds

Homeowners are sitting on sizeable capital gains from years of historic house price inflation, Zoopla said.

Economics

67 m. ago Electric bills 'could soar 20 per cent in the next five years', UK's top energy supplier warns

Rachel Fletcher, regulations director at Octopus, said the costs of Whitehall policies, including green levies to expand renewable power and nuclear, were increasing energy bills.

Events

71 m. ago 'Prince William won't want "Bad Uncle Andrew" living it up next to his forever home'

Prince William and Princess Kate, Prince and Princess of Wales, are due to move to a new "forever home" in Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park, which is near Prince Andrew's house

Politics

72 m. ago Hardly working: Senate heads home with House already gone as shutdown persists and Americans suffer

Everyone knows the shutdown is a loser. But nobody has given the other side a reason to assume good faith, Eric Garcia writes

Society

2 h. ago Trump says tariffs directly ended several of the wars he claims to have stopped since returning to the White House

President Trump claimed that the import taxes paid by Americans have also been ‘very important’ for ‘national security’

Events

2 h. ago Households warned to stop using clothing pegs to dry garments

Experts have urged homeowners to consider other ways to hang your clothes up to dry for one reason

Events

2 h. ago Trump says tariffs ended most of the seven wars he claims to have ended since returning to the White House

President claims import taxes paid by Americans have also been ‘very important’ for ‘national security’

Events

3 h. ago ITV Big Brother housemate Caroline leaves fans confused as 'crazy' habit revealed

Big Brother star Caroline has come under fire from fans on social media

Politics

3 h. ago Pentagon reporters have now turned in their badges – but plan to keep reporting

Reporters who declined to sign new set of Pentagon rules had to clear out of world’s largest military headquartersPentagon reporters who declined to sign a new set of policies that press advocates and news organizations denounced as incompatible with the tenets of journalism were set to return their press badges by 5pm on Wednesday, ending decades of history of robust in-house coverage at the world’s largest military headquarters.In the hours leading up to the deadline, journalists worked furiously to pack up their workspaces in two media rooms, with hallways filled to the brim with boxes and books and other souvenirs of decades of daily coverage. Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago Security committee urges minister to block Chinese 'mega embassy' plans amid security fears

Housing and Planning Secretary Steve Reed is expected to make a decision later this month

Politics

4 h. ago Mitsuko Uchida at Wigmore Hall review: 'A full house for a consummate artist'

Mitsuko Uchida’s sell-out recital at Wigmore Hall showed a pianist in total command

Politics

4 h. ago Government defeated as Lords demand tougher crackdown on benefit fraud

Peers supported by 200 votes to 194, majority six, a Conservative amendment to the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill.

Politics

5 h. ago Who is Tom Daley's husband and does the Celebrity Traitors star have any children?

Tom Daley is a household name thanks to his diving career and more recently his TV work, but he lives a quiet life with his husband and their two children

Politics

5 h. ago Judge temporarily blocks firings by Trump administration during shutdown

Judge says White House office of management and budget took advantage of government shutdown in firing workersA federal court has granted a temporary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s firings of federal employees during the government shutdown.The ruling by Judge Susan Illston of the US district court’s northern district of California came in response to a lawsuit filed by labor unions representing federal workers. Continue reading...

Events

5 h. ago Airline prices to change by ‘less than cost of coffee’ with green fuel guarantee

Keir Mather promised that ticket prices will be “kept under continual review”, once the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill clears both Houses.

Economics

6 h. ago DAN HODGES: Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to the House of Commons to appease a foreign enemy. He may have no option but to resign

Today Keir Starmer lied to the House of Commons. He didn't obfuscate. He didn't deflect. He wasn't, to use that immortal phrase of the late Alan Clark, 'economical with the actualite'.

Politics

6 h. ago Boston mayor Michelle Wu dismisses Trump threat to remove World Cup games from city

Trump claimed Fifa president could ‘easily’ move gamesWu says Trump comments are ‘targeting Boston values’The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, implied the city was ready for a face-off with the US president Donald Trump over his claim he could order Fifa to remove World Cup games from Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, 22 miles south-west of the city.Wu appeared on local podcast “Java with Jimmy” on Wednesday to respond to Tuesday’s criticism from the White House, which labeled the Democrat as “radical left”. Trump threatened he would make a call to the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, if Boston did not “clean up its act”. Continue reading...

Politics

7 h. ago Trump’s meds ‘could be slowing him down’ and may not be doing him any good, MAHA adviser warns

A vaccine-skeptic doctor says the president should come off statins and aspirin – sparking an angry response from the White House

Events

7 h. ago Speaker Mike Johnson dismissive of restraining order against MAGA Congressman by former girlfriend

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to wave off questions about the new restraining order against a MAGA congressman by his former girlfriend.

Politics

7 h. ago Stirling councillor claims residents left to pay hundreds over rat infestations

A full council meeting heard concerns from several householders about rats and the impact of a £200 council charge on levels of reporting on the issue.

Politics