Householders buying brand new homes in the next four years are likely to find an unpleasant surprise awaiting them in the future: homes built today…
View More Buyers of brand-new homes face £20,000 bill to make them greenerTag: Politics
Legal bid to stop UK building Europe’s biggest gas power plant fails
A legal challenge to the UK government’s approval of a new gas-fired power plant has failed in the court of appeal. The challenge was brought…
View More Legal bid to stop UK building Europe’s biggest gas power plant failsTop scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruption
The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals” that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according…
View More Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruptionUK TV streaming subscribers can no longer access live sport when in EU
UK customers of TV streaming services can no longer watch live sport, including Premier League football, when visiting the rest of Europe, following the end…
View More UK TV streaming subscribers can no longer access live sport when in EUHMRC to waive fines for taxpayers who file late returns due to Covid
People who file their tax returns late won’t face a fine this year, as long as they can show that the delay was due to…
View More HMRC to waive fines for taxpayers who file late returns due to CovidUK urged to put Alok Sharma in full-time charge of Cop26 talks
Ministers are facing calls to make the business secretary, Alok Sharma, the full-time president of the Cop26 UN climate talks to be hosted in Glasgow…
View More UK urged to put Alok Sharma in full-time charge of Cop26 talksBrexit: what are consumers’ rights on holidays, banking and more?
Holidays Will my Ehic card still work? Yes and no. Under the agreement if you have a European health insurance card (Ehic), which entitles visitors…
View More Brexit: what are consumers’ rights on holidays, banking and more?Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rollout plan changed following approval
Millions of people across the UK at risk from Covid will be offered a single first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with a booster jab…
View More Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rollout plan changed following approvalFour-day week would be affordable for most UK firms, says thinktank
A carefully designed four-day week could be introduced in the UK immediately and be affordable for most firms with more than 50 workers, a thinktank…
View More Four-day week would be affordable for most UK firms, says thinktank