National

It’s a trial designed to help the environment A UK supermarket will use lasers to draw size information onto some of its avocados instead of using stickers, in a trial designed to help the environment. High-powered lasers will remove a tiny section of the top layer of the skin of extra large avocados sold at […]

President Biden outlined a three-phase deal on Friday proposed by Israel to Hamas Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas have called for all parties to immediately accept a proposal detailed by US President Joe Biden. The deal would end the nearly eight-month-long war and bring their relatives home, but Israel’s government said conditions for a ceasefire still must

That’s according to BRC-Sensormatic IQ data Retail footfall across the UK remains well down on last year as bank holidays and improving weather failed to lure customers away from online shopping, figures show. Total footfall was down 3.6% on a year ago but an improvement on April’s 7.2% drop, according to BRC (British Retail Consortium)-Sensormatic

It’s in a bid to tackle misleading investment claims Financial institutions and firms must ensure retail investors are given accurate information on sustainability as a new anti-greenwashing rule comes into effect. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said claims on the green goals of investment products and services should be “fair, clean and not misleading”, starting

Government shareholding is now 22.5% The Government has sold £1.24 billion of shares in NatWest, accelerating the process of bringing the high street bank into private ownership. A notice on Friday confirmed that the Government’s shareholding in the bank has fallen by about 3.5 percentage points to 22.5%. NatWest received several multibillion-pound bailouts during the

Diane Abbott is “free” to stand as a Labour candidate in the General Election, Sir Keir Starmer has said after growing tensions in the party over her political future. The Labour leader on Friday told reporters: “The whip has obviously been restored to her now and she is free to go forward as a Labour

Former US president Donald Trump has been convicted of all 34 counts in his New York hush money trial. Donald Trump has become the first former US president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election

A nine-year-old girl is fighting for her life after being the “innocent victim” of a shooting while having dinner in a restaurant with her family in Hackney, east London. The child was injured when shots were fired from a motorbike outside, police said. Three men, aged 26, 37 and 42, who were sitting outside the

Kieran McKenna says he is “excited” to lead Ipswich into the Premier League after signing a new four-year contract at Portman Road. McKenna, 38, guided Ipswich to a second successive promotion this season and had been linked with Brighton, Chelsea and Manchester United after taking the Suffolk club into the top flight. “I am extremely

A General Election row has broken out over near-identical Conservative and Labour commitments not to raise VAT. Both parties have pledged not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT over recent days, should either of them form a government after polling day on July 4. Setting out how his party would afford to lower