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Rachel Reeves is set to announce a round of planning changes before the budget as a way to kickstart Britain’s sluggish economic growth, but ministers are…

The UK is expected to formally recognise Palestinian statehood in the coming days, having shifted its position on the subject in July, shortly after Emmanuel Macron…

Branwen Jeffreys Education editorUniversal Images Group via Getty ImagesThe universities of Kent and Greenwich will collaborate in 2026The UK’s first “super-university”, stretching across an entire region,…

The UK’s new business secretary, Peter Kyle, is expected to fly to Beijing this week as part of Keir Starmer’s continuing efforts to revitalise the UK’s…

Sophie ParkerBBC News, Wiltshire andBen PraterBBC Radio WiltshireBBCMike, pictured above, now volunteers at Salisbury Foodbank – the very service that once supported him, run by Maria…

Charlotte WrightBBC South East Political EditorBBCRichard Tice described the situation with Send for children as “ludicrous”Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (Send) provision is being “hijacked by…

There is a lot of noise currently about UK government borrowing costs.The focus has been on what is known as the 30-year gilt yield, which is…

Much has changed since Kim Cotton became the UK’s first surrogate 40 years ago, when she was forced to flee hospital on the floor of a…

Rachel Muller-HeyndykBBC NewsEPAPope Leo XIV met members of the Chagos Refugees Group in Vatican CityPope Leo XIV has said he is “delighted” the UK has agreed…

Simon JackBusiness editor, BBC NewsBBC/Spencer StokesCourt hearings to decide on the steel firm’s future had previously been adjourned several timesThe UK’s third-largest steelworks has been placed…