Sir Brian Leveson’s review of the courts system has recommended juries are reserved for rape, murder and manslaughter cases.

The fresh commitments to their businesses in the UK come a day after the autumn Budget statement, in which banks escaped target tax rises which many in the industry had feared. Chancellor Rachel ...

Young volunteers will serve in France’s mainland and oversea territories only, not in France’s military operations abroad, Mr Macron said.

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison said the Chancellor had shown an ‘astonishing level of arrogance’ with the comment.

Rachel Reeves has insisted taxes have been kept at “an absolute minimum on ordinary working people”, even as an influential think tank said low-to-middle earners would have been better off with their ...

Revolution Beauty has revealed it cut more than 80 jobs since March, as it blamed deepening losses on its previous management. The beauty retail business is undergoing a major turnaround programme ...

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons also cautioned against the powersharing Executive looking at additional revenue-raising measures, stating it would target people who were already being “hammered”.

At the International Space Station, the trio will join Nasa astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman and Jonny Kim, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonauts ...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ director Helen Miller called on the Chancellor to be more ambitious about measures to boost growth.

Latest figures show the number dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, down 69 year-on-year from 649,000.

Bosses said the business was buoyed by a ‘recovery’ in the cycling market, warm summer weather and ‘fantastic’ sales of children’s bikes.