Halifax said on Thursday house prices were 2.4% higher compared with July last year, slowing from June's 2.7% increase. The housing market has settled after a rush to beat the expiry in April of a tax ...

The group reported pre-tax profits tumbling to £98 million for the six months to June 30, down from £338 million a year earlier.

Because of record global heat in 2023 and 2024, the world is still going through its biggest – and fourth ever recorded – mass coral bleaching event on record, with heat stress hurting nearly 84% of ...

The average house price jumped by 0.4% or more than £1,000 in cash terms in July, Halifax has reported. Across the UK, the average property value in July was £298,237, up from £297,157 in June.

Mr Trump has promoted the tariffs as a way to reduce the persistent trade deficit. But importers sought to avoid the taxes by importing more goods before the taxes went into effect. As a result, the ...

Emmerdale fans have been left 'confused' by a character's risky decision on the ITV show as a major exit is 'confirmed'.

An emergency alert drill in a month’s time “will be one of the biggest public safety exercises” in UK history, a Cabinet minister has said. Pat McFadden said mobile phone alerts could save lives ...

Actor and presenter Rob Brydon is the gamemaster on the series, taking competitors across Europe on board the X-bus.

HERITAGE England has announced that Ellesmere Port's National Waterways Museum will receive more than £250,000 for repairs.

A MAN has been jailed for shoplifting after repeatedly targeting supermarkets in Wirral.

Dr Andy Wight, consultant respiratory physician at Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH), is supporting Cycle to Work Day and promoting the many health benefits of cycling. Dr Wight said: "It’s ...

When Ian Heath and Hazel Colman out for a date in 1964 neither of them could have realised that they would still be together more than sixty ...