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A broken high street and its billionaire owners

The whole town centre of Newton Aycliffe in County Durham is owned by billionair...

England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bo...

Data shows deprived communities have more off-licences and takeaways and fewer c...

Southern Water admits 18-year meter mix-up – but insist...

It kept on billing us for a neighbouring house’s supply although I live alone at...

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there a...

Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the plane...

‘It’s like two divorcing parents’: how actors’ union Eq...

Union to appeal after losing case against historic talent index in battle that c...

Experts sound alarm over UK exports to firm linked to R...

Exclusive: Multimillion-pound contract raises concerns about controls designed t...

A new town for the 21st century? Seven-village build to...

Gilston in Hertfordshire aims to be rebuke to cookie-cutter estates with network...

‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s...

Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environm...

Scottish Labour leader calls for Keir Starmer to resign...

Anas Sarwar, the leader of the Labour party in Scotland, called on Monday for Ke...

Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong media tycoon gets 20 years in jail...

The media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentence...

NatWest is chasing the mass affluent wallet. So is ever...

Bank snares biggest acquisition since it was bailed out by taxpayers in 2008 but...

Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living sta...

Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Fou...

South Korean crypto exchange races to recover $40bn of ...

Bithumb has apologised for staff error that sent customers 620,000 bitcoins inst...

My week of only using cash: could a return to notes and...

After a reckless shopping spree, I ditched contactless payments and bank cards t...

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption

Countries’ drop in scores in annual table comes amid ‘worrying trend’ of backsli...

EasyJet refuses to honour a promised £472 refund

We had to buy a new ticket after an air traffic control outage but the airline i...