Publicly owned rail is popular. But is it making the trains run on time?

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HMV to close Oxford Street store after three years

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Healey faces £35bn Budget challenge to meet spending pledges, says think tank

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the government will need a "top-up" of billions of pounds if it wants to meet its spending plans.

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Campaigners claim minister attempting to undermine 'Holiday Hunger Bill'

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AI is less regulated than milk, says Microsoft president

Brad Smith calls for global rules on AI, and says the UK is in the "best position" to lead the charge.

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Why some have no choice but to pay costly oil prices

The rural communities vulnerable to heating oil prices rises as the weather gets colder.

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Documents falsified to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth, BBC finds

Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.

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China's growth offers opportunity over shock, experts say

After four days touring the frontlines of China's economic evolution, from Xinyu, an age-old manufacturing hub reinventing itself with advanced industries, to the bustling entrepreneurial engine of Wenzhou, the cradle of the country's private sector, a group of former international political leaders and scholars converged in Beijing on Sunday for the Mingde Strategic Dialogue 2026.