News

  • What will be in the chancellor’s Spring Statement?

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves will give more detail about the government’s plans for the economy.

  • ‘We don’t need a Gail’s’ – the coffee shop boom dividing locals

    The controversial cafe chain is expanding outside London but locals often have mixed feelings.

  • Data, waves and wind to be counted in the economy

    Wind and wave power is set to be included in calculations of the size of countries’ economies for the first time, as part of changes approved at the United Nations.

  • Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead

    Trolleys are weighed before checkout to identify any items customers might have missed or scanned twice.

  • ‘A pig in lipstick’: Trump’s strategic Bitcoin reserve criticised

    The reserve will hold cryptocurrency forfeited to the government in criminal or civil proceedings, said the White House.