Politics

Two rate-setters voted to keep interest rates unchanged at the December meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee.

Some 17% of adults said they were eating food past its “use by” date, the Office for National Statistics said.

The Royal College of Nursing in Northern Ireland will take part in a strike for fair pay and safe staffing levels.

The organisation renewed its call to the public to support by subscribing or making a contribution through the Big Issue Foundation.

Dominic Raab is being investigated over five fresh formal complaints about his conduct after Rishi Sunak referred the new allegations.

In an explosive PMQs, Starmer accused the Prime Minister of entering “hibernation” rather than working to get Thursday’s first ever nationwide strike of nurses called off.

The average UK house price was £33,000 higher in October than a year earlier, after jumping by 12.6%, according to official figures.

The Royal Navy, French navy, Coastguard and RNLI lifeboats were all involved in a major rescue operation off the Kent coast.

The Coastguard is working with the Royal Navy, Border Force, Kent Police and others to co-ordinate the response.