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When Netflix offered viewers the chance to binge on an entire season of House of Cards it revolutionised the TV industry and started on a path to becoming the world’s most popular streaming service.
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On 24 June 2026 the ECB published its Convergence Report assessing the progress made towards euro adoption in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden, following its adoption by the General Council of the…
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Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs has put UK businesses at a disadvantage against the EU even though the overall tariff for British goods has not changed, experts have said.
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One of the Labour party’s biggest union backers has called for Andy Burnham to award a £2.4bn military satellite contract to the European manufacturer Airbus rather than a US rival, Lockheed Martin, amid concerns that a…
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From being abused by staff and other travellers to being denied access to toilets, flying is an increasingly distressing and frustrating experience for many wheelchair users. Here, they share their stories
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Andy Burnham has been urged to lobby EU leaders directly to suspend the new entry-exit system, EES, as the peak weekend for overseas holidays begins.
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The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) today decided on the operational features and onboarding for the enhanced EUREP announced on 14 February. The new facility supports the smooth transmission of mon…
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The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to extend the use of climate factors in the Eurosystem collateral framework to certain eligible credit claims whose debtor is a non-financial corporat…
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The June 2026 survey covered a period of heightened market volatility from March to May 2026. Escalating conflict in the Middle East triggered an oil supply shock that drove commodity prices sharply higher. This weighed…
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Respondents’ expectations for headline inflation, as measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), stood at 2.7% for 2026, 2.2% for 2027 and 2.0% for 2028. Compared with the previous round, these expectati…
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Vintage boutique owner Janelle Best has been rummaging in thrift shop bins since the 90s. When she started, she says, there was a stigma about it. “It was either you were a freak, or you were poor – and I was a freak.”
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Online sales accounted for the highest level of retail sales in five years last month as record hot weather spurred a rush for air conditioning, outdoor products and clothing.
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One of Andy Burnham’s first policy measures as prime minister is a 20% reduction in business rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues.
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Consumer confidence in the UK jumped this month by its biggest margin for nearly three years as the prospect of Andy Burnham becoming prime minister became almost certain.
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It’s not just a No 10 in the north, it’s an engine for growth throughout the whole UK | Andy Burnham
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On Friday, May 15, Governor Polis pardoned 35 people and commuted the sentences of nine others, including former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted and sentenced for her role in a breach of her office’s el…
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The owner of British Gas has claimed that most households would rather speak with an AI chatbot than deal with the company’s staff as it prepares to cut 1,300 jobs from its call centres.
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The oil price broke above $100 a barrel for the first time in two months, as a fresh escalation of the Middle East conflict threatens to compound disruption to global oil supplies.
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On Monday, September 29, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) held a joint roundtable in Washington, D.C., focusing on regulatory harmonization between t…
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The Governing Council today decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. The outlook for energy prices, while highly volatile, currently stands close to the baseline of the June Eurosystem staff projectio…
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British households will be able to buy plug-in solar panels later this summer after the government changed the law so the UK’s biggest retailers could bring them to market for the first time.
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Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX , Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space indust…
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The FCA has decided to ban a father and son from UK financial services after the High Court found that they had engaged in fraud and misused client money.