Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has not ruled out increasing pay offers to public sector workers, but warned that giving more money to teachers and nurses could entrench high inflation. Speaking as it was revealed the UK economy narrowly avoided recession in 2022, Mr Hunt also indicated he would resist pressure to cancel a planned cut to
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Friends of Nicola Bulley have gathered for a “last push” roadside appeal two weeks on from her disappearance – after police extended the search for the missing mother-of-two to the Lancashire coast. The 45-year-old went missing while walking her dog in St Michael’s on Wyre on Friday 27 January after dropping her daughters off at
Dominic Raab has insisted he “behaved professionally at all times” despite facing an official inquiry into his conduct. The deputy prime minister is being investigated by senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC over numerous bullying allegations. But, denying the allegations, Mr Raab told The Telegraph newspaper he is “confident” he has behaved appropriately. “I’m confident I
The economy narrowly avoided recession in the second half of last year, according to early official figures, despite growth going into a sharp reverse in December partly due to the impact of strikes and lack of Premier League football. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that output between October and December was flat at
Jacob Rees-Mogg reimagined as a praying mantis, Priti Patel transformed into a bat and four Vladimir Putins – not many live shows can boast such a cast. But Spitting Image Live: Idiots Assemble has a unique advantage – the lead cast are all puppets. Comedians Al Murray and Matt Forde, the show’s co-writers, tell Sky
A 14-year-old girl who was reported missing in 2021 has been found pregnant in the closet of a Michigan home. A US Marshals fugitive team found the teen – who was in a distraught state – at about 5:30pm on Tuesday in Port Huron, Michigan, Deputy Marshal Robert Watson said. “She was pretty upset, she
A new Tesla Cybertruck beta prototype has been spotted and this time we get a good look at the front-end, which appears to have been updated, and it still has a monstrous windshield wiper. As we reported last week, we expected to start seeing a lot more Cybertruck sightings as the automaker is testing its
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. Giving Emerson Electric one last chance Monitoring Cisco Systems Buying more Coterra Energy 1. Giving Emerson Electric one last chance Shares of Emerson Electric (EMR) fell more than 5% on
A couple of hours before the result of the West Lancashire by-election was declared shortly before 2am, senior Tories at the count were prepared for the worst. Privately, they were predicting a 60% share of the vote for Labour and 25% for the Conservatives. They weren’t far wrong. The Tory vote has indeed slumped from
Hester Peirce, commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Valerie Plesch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hester Peirce of the Securities and Exchange Commission publicly rebuked her agency’s crypto enforcement, calling it “paternalistic and lazy” and asking if a “hostile” regulator is the
The UK has sent thousands of thermal blankets to Turkey – and is planning to build a field hospital to treat those critically injured after Monday’s devastating earthquake. Rescue teams on the ground are making a final push to find survivors, in what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described as the “disaster of the
The first images of Nicola Bulley on the day she vanished have been shared by her family, as a desperate search for the missing dog walker continues. The mother-of-two was last seen on 27 January, walking her dog Willow in Lancashire, and police are working on the theory she fell into the River Wyre. New
CNN correspondent Selina Wang asks Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning about the government’s claims that the balloon shot down by the U.S. was a weather balloon and not a spy balloon. See the exchange. #shorts #cnn #news
Alec Baldwin is facing a new civil lawsuit from relatives of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Ms Hutchins died in October 2021 after a prop gun, held by Baldwin, went off on set while the film Rust was being made in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Hollywood actor is being sued for alleged battery, intentional infliction of
Labour have held on to their seat in West Lancashire after a by-election victory which saw Ashley Dalton become the country’s newest MP. Ms Dalton secured a majority of 8,326 over Conservative candidate Mike Prendergast, with a 10.52% swing from the Tories to Labour. In her victory speech, she said the people of her constituency
The US Department of Transportation said on Thursday it is investigating Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens. A Department of Transportation spokesperson told Reuters about the probe after the Physicians Committee of Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an animal-welfare advocacy group, wrote to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg earlier on Thursday
Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have been restored after he was banned in the wake of the deadly Capitol riot two years ago. Users of the social media sites can again see the former US president’s pages, with the last post on his Facebook made on 6 January 2021, when he wrote: “I am
General Motors (GM) has advanced to the next round of bidding for a stake in Brazilian mining company Vale’s base metals spinoff. According to a new report from Bloomberg, GM is in serious discussions with the mining giant for a minority stake in its newly established business. Vale is the largest producer of Iron Ore
Shell recently reported its highest-ever annual profit of nearly $40 billion. Paul Ellis | Afp | Getty Images Shell‘s directors are being personally sued for allegedly failing to adequately manage the risks associated with the climate emergency in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that could have widespread implications for how other companies plan to cut emissions. Environmental
MPs will get a 2.9% pay increase from 1 April, taking their overall salary from £84,144 to £86,584. It comes as the government is locked in many bitter industrial disputes with public sector workers demanding inflation-busting pay rises which ministers say they can’t afford. MPs’ salaries are decided by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA),