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  • A sign informing passengers about industrial action at Waterloo station in January 2024.

    Transport
    Rail strikes restart as Aslef train drivers embark on new action

    Union to roll out 24-hour strikes across England’s train operators for three days this week and six-day overtime ban from Monday
  • pipes, valves and shafts at the grangemouth oil refinery

    Grangemouth
    Calls grow for urgent talks to protect future of oil refinery

  • European symbol graphic

    Europe's housing crisis
    Fix problem or risk fuelling the far right, UN expert warns

    Unaffordable rents and property prices risk becoming a key political battleground across the continent
    • Matt Wrack

      Unions
      Scaling back Labour’s workers’ rights plan would be disastrous, warns TUC president

    • Poll
      Farmer confidence at lowest in England and Wales since survey began, NFU says

    • EU
      Conflict of interest concerns raised over MEPs’ second jobs

    • ‘Privacy and dignity’
      Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England

    • Rail
      Why Labour leapt on board with private open access train providers

    • China
      Xi Jinping arrives in France with Ukraine and an EU trade row at the top of his agenda

    • Fungi froth
      Scientists pour scorn on mushroom coffee, the latest ‘healthy’ food trend

    • Electric vehicles
      UK installs record number of public chargers

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Opinion & analysis

  • a monk re-enacts a ritual outside the semi-derelict Rievaulx Abbey in the North York Moors national park

    If Tory hopes rest on the UK economy, they could go the way of the monasteries

    Larry Elliott
  • View of Pikk Street in the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia

    Higher costs and cramped conditions
    The impact of Europe’s housing crisis

  • Kemi Badenoch gives her endorsement to ‘research’ that dismisses the impotance of empire on the Britain’s wealth

    So empire and the slave trade contributed little to Britain’s wealth? Pull the other one, Kemi Badenoch

    Will Hutton
  • an "open" sign

    What is a US small business?
    One owner explains

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Your money

  • A calculator on a pile of bills displaying the word 'help' on its screen

    Bills you don’t owe, menacing debt collectors: the terrifying world of energy company customers

  • A couple enjoying time in a sauna

    ‘There are so many benefits’: why more and more Britons are building a home sauna

    • Remote coastal homes for sale in Great Britain – in pictures

    • Brompton electric bike needs costly £500 repair

    • Budget brands and free samples: eight ways to cut the cost of your skincare

    • BT’s Digital Voice has cut off my mother’s vital landline

    • Secret Thatcher-era memo undermines Sunak’s plan to scrap national insurance

    • Average rents in Great Britain climb to record high

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