Thousands of Britons have been hit by travel chaos after heavy snow swept the UK in a cold snap over the first weekend of 2025. Several major airports were forced to temporarily close their runways due to snowfall, leading to flight cancellations and delays. Stranded vehicles and collisions left key roads in northern England closed […]
The report that sparked Musk’s interest earlier this week claimed that Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips had rejected a request from a city council for a government-led inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham, a town near Manchester in the north of England that was one one of the areas where allegations of abuse from grooming […]
We know surprisingly little about the impact of smartphone bans in schools, says Sonia Livingstone, a professor at the London School of Economics who studies how digital technologies affect young people. There are relatively few good studies in this area, and those studies that have been done often point in contradictory directions. There is just […]
Business owners in the UK have fast-tracked their exit plans over the past year, research has shown, which comes amid fears of an increase in capital gains tax (CGT) in the upcoming autumn budget. Nearly a third (29%) of business owners have accelerated their business exits over the past 12 months, according to research by […]
When Charlie Kelly first messaged saying he wouldn’t make it home that night, his partner wasn’t happy. It was September 6, 2023, a Wednesday, and the 56-year-old, a keen hillwalker, had left the house that he shared with Emer Kennedy in Tillicoultry, near the Scottish city of Stirling, before she went to work. His plan […]
