Category: UK
Shell plans more cuts to costs and spending but hands CEO bigger bonus
The oil company Shell has revealed plans to ramp up cost savings and cut spending, as it handed its chief executive an increase to his [more…]
UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families
Deadly disease-causing organisms from pathogen families that include bird flu, plague and Ebola pose a threat to health in the UK and should be prioritised [more…]
Britons cutting back on spending as confidence in economy falls, survey shows
Consumers are cutting back spending on everyday items amid falling confidence in the UK economy before Rachel Reeves’s spring statement, according to a survey. As [more…]
Domestic abusers driving more victims to suicide, warn police
Domestic abusers are driving their victims to suicide, police have warned as they admitted to past mistakes and pledged to investigate more “hidden” cases of [more…]
UK police to charge more abusers with manslaughter after suicide of partner
A senior police chief has unveiled a plan to charge more domestic abusers with manslaughter after their partners take their own lives. It comes after [more…]
Starmer faces radio grilling as criticism of spring statement plans escalates – UK politics live
8.27am.) a news release: From mid-April, local authorities in England will start to receive their share of the government’s record £1.6bn highway maintenance funding, including [more…]
Visual analysis: How the markets boxed in Rachel Reeves
How the marketsboxed in Rachel Reeves Before the spring statement, this visual analysis shows how the chancellor lacks room to manoeuvre Alex Clark and Richard [more…]
Ministers may siphon off stalled £950m fund for motorway chargers
Ministers are considering diverting money from a £950m scheme to install rapid chargers for electric cars on the UK’s motorways, announced five years ago, after [more…]
Pioneering project by Welsh National Opera suggests music can alleviate chronic pain
Wales is famed as the land of song, the music of the valleys and mountains providing a source of pride, joy and a sense of [more…]
MPs think they may have been targets of ‘disinformation’ over Bangladesh inquiry
British MPs believe they may have been targeted by a “disinformation” campaign aimed at discrediting the man leading efforts to trace funds allegedly laundered from [more…]
