We’re likely to hear a lot about the chancellor’s “headroom” in this Budget. That is the cash buffer the government has to help meet its own fiscal rules and reduce borrowing. Economists think the buffer might have halved in the last six months from around £24bn to ...
As he was signed up to a joint tenancy, when he left it ended the tenancy for the whole house. Fortunately, Eddie had a friend who was looking for a room who was able to take his place so his housemates could sign a new tenancy. He acknowledges the situation would have been more difficult...
On the outskirts of Chandigarh city in India’s north-western Punjab state, a 473-year-old legacy British public school opened its first all-girls international campus earlier this year. In contrast to the prominent Gothic-style central building on the school grounds in Bedfordshire, ...
Law firm Eversheds Sutherland, which carried out the independent investigation, said there were “high levels of stress and concern” within NESO’s Electricity National Control Centre over the “current state of the energy industry generally” and the longer-term ...
The CQC says the funding system remains fragile – people using care services either self-fund or, for the poorest, the state helps to pay for their costs. And in some areas, providers are increasingly turning to self-funders, making it more difficult for councils to buy the care they need ...
Barclays is cutting around 5,000 staff this year as it introduces more artificial intelligence (AI) into its processes. The banking group said 1,000 posts had already been closed and it expects a further reduction of 4,000 to be complete by the end of 2026. The cuts amount to 5% of its glo...
When BBC News visited the platform this summer, Adura CEO Neil McCulloch said its approval was vital to avoid domestic supply shortages this winter. However, the UK government has previously suggested that Jackdaw will have little impact on energy security and none on reducing domestic gas...
The enviromental impact of Jackdaw has also been a significant point of contention. Advocates argue the gas field would be beneficial because the carbon emissions arising from production from the the UK’s own North Sea field will be lower than those arising from the production of US ...
The chancellor was on an early flight to North East Scotland on Wednesday to announce new North Sea energy approvals as the last set of major economic figures dropped. From a mile high, as well as close up, the figures for inflation and for the public finances set out his Budget balancing ...
Industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has said Rosebank and Jackdaw would support a peak of more than 3,500 jobs during the construction phase. It says the fields would support 880 jobs, external throughout during their lifespans, with an average salary of £85,850. OEUK also says they ...