Household energy bills to hit three-year high as Ofgem announces 4% rise from October
A household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will pay £60 a year more, regulator Ofgem said....
UK minister urges social media firms to remove dangerous driving videos
Defence minister Luke Pollard says “there’s no place” for social media trend showing people driving the wrong way down roads....
Reform says it will prioritise British-born workers for social housing
Labour called the plan “unserious and unworkable” and accused Reform of pushing “gimmicks and division”....
Burnham to hand long-range missile blueprints to Zelensky as he visits Kyiv
It comes after Moscow warned of “consequences” over the reported use of British drones by Ukraine....
Burnham economic adviser O’Neill rules out government job
Lord O’Neill, former chief economist at Goldman Sachs, was tipped to become Andy Burnham’s chief economic adviser....
French becoming more effective in stopping small boat crossings, UK says
The Home Office credits France with intercepting hundreds of potential crossings this summer using new tactics....
Burnham announces plans to clean up worst three illegal waste dumps
The government says the sites in Kent, Surrey and West Yorkshire contain 22,000 tonnes of waste....
AI will not solve council cash crisis, say experts
Councils across the UK are making cuts of £3bn this financial year, despite recent funding reforms....
People smuggler exposed by BBC investigation arrested and charged
Twana Jamal Khdir has been arrested and charged with immigration offences....
The dangers of politicians being “too online” – or not online enough
In an era when reputations can be made or broken with a single post, getting the balance right is tricky....