Whitbread: More Rooms Sold, Less Money Made Rising costs and a sweeping corporate overhaul have punished Whitbread’s bottom line. The Premier Inn owner posted a 62 per cent collapse in pre-tax profits to £109 million for the six months ending…
The hearing room in Eastleigh, Hampshire, was not the setting Scott Chilton had anticipated for the final chapter of a policing career that had reached its apex as chief constable of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Constabulary. He did…
New Enforcement Regime Takes Effect The Department for Work and Pensions has brought into force sweeping new enforcement powers allowing it to suspend the driving licences of benefit claimants who persistently refuse to repay debts or engage with departmental officials.…
Thailand will host the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok from October 12 to 18, drawing more than 15,000 delegates from 191 countries to address pressing questions of global economic stability, financial governance and development policy.…
At around three o’clock on a quiet north London morning, the returning officer at the Holborn and St Pancras by-election declared Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali the winner — and with that, the seat once held by Sir Keir Starmer passed, unremarkably…
There are moments when a single human story crystallises a broader social tension with an intensity that no policy paper or economic report quite manages to achieve. The death of Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old woman evicted from her home in…
A new study from the University of York offers encouraging evidence that pub operators can expand their alcohol-free offerings without sacrificing the revenues that sustain their businesses. Published in Drug and Alcohol Review, the research examined how a series of…
One migrant reached British shores every six minutes during the first week of October, according to Home Office figures — the highest rate ever recorded for that period since small boat crossings began in 2018. The Scale of the Surge…
France’s schools have become an unlikely theatre of political pressure, as a wave of student demonstrations has compelled Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to acknowledge institutional shortcomings and pledge remedial action before the disruption deepens further. Hundreds of schools across the…
Transport for London has published the results of its public consultation on the proposed Docklands Light Railway extension to Thamesmead, claiming broad support for a scheme that would deliver south-east London’s largest unconnected community its first rail link — though…