1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (768+ words) By MICHAEL BLACKLEY, SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL POLITICAL EDITOR Scotland's food and drink industry has issued a warning about the damaging ‘unintended consequences’ of John Swinney’s supermarket price cap plan. The First Minister is under further pressure to scrap the proposal…...

13+ hour, 10+ min ago   (634+ words) Higher energy prices have sent UK inflation surging back up amid fears the summer's record heatwaves may also start putting pressure on food costs. The rate of Consumer Prices Index inflation rose to 2.9 per cent in July - up from a…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (400+ words) It may have been a sweltering summer but Brits are also 'feeling the heat' due to the soaring cost of a family BBQ. A meal of burgers, sausages and corn on the cobs for a family of four was £14.28 from…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (366+ words) The rate of UK unemployment remained unchanged at 4.9 per cent in the three months to June, the Office for National Statistics said today. The announcement is a blow to Prime Minister Andy Burnham after economists had expected the rate to…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1116+ words) I’ve found a trick to get a juicy 7 pc interest on my savings – far more than you can get with even the most generous traditional current account. The rates I’m getting even beat the average growth of the UK stock…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1187+ words) By PETER VAN ONSELEN, POLITICAL EDITOR, AUSTRALIA Labor's gamble to engineer cheaper housing is colliding with a property market that was already starting to weaken before the May Budget, but has deteriorated sharply ever since Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced the…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1080+ words) The price of gold has experienced major swings in 2026 after hitting a record high of more than $5,000 an ounce earlier in the year, but then dropping. The past year's gold frenzy was initially driven by investors looking for a safe…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (907+ words) People living in Scotland are more than £2,700 a year better off as part of the UK thanks to 'a record Union dividend', latest official figures have shown. It has been revealed that spending per person in Scotland in 2025-26 was £22,281 compared…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (415+ words) By BENJAMIN CURRY, US DEPUTY CONSUMER EDITOR Consumer prices crept slightly higher in July, leaving Americans stuck with stubbornly high inflation that has pushed up the cost of everything from groceries to home loans. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (505+ words) A Chinese rocket exploded shortly after take-off as Beijing raced to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX. Dramatic footage shows the Long March 7A rocket bursting into flames just 85 seconds after blasting off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan on…...