HMRC is considering plans to raise money from a tax on the sale of homes worth more than £500,000, according to reports. Government officials are looking at a potential national property tax, which ...

Dr Ben Surridge, senior lecturer at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University said: "The Big Windermere Survey is a unique collaboration between professional scientists and members of various ...

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Brits are becoming more confident when it comes to investing - but are growing more cautious in how they choose to invest their money. An annual study, of 4,000 adults, found 39 per cent now feel ...

Reality is Not Enough, a documentary about the Trainspotting author and his take on consciousness, will close the International Film Festival.

Britain’s elections watchdog has agreed to help its Ukrainian counterpart plan for post-war votes. The co-operation deal will see the Electoral Commission share with Kyiv best practice on ...

A pair of capybaras, Humboldt penguins, giant Galapagos tortoises and a ring-tailed lemur troop were among the animals to step on the scales at London Zoo’s annual weigh-in.

Conservationists have called for “landscape-wide” action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate declines of nearly a fifth since the 1970s.

Brazilian Maria Carolina Do Nascimento, who was a passenger in the BMW, died at the scene in Brent Cross, north London, in 2022.

The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation is widely expected to have increased to 3.7 in July, from the 3.6 recorded in June.