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Simon Jack Business editor, BBC News BBC/Spencer Stokes Court hearings to decide on the steel firm’s future had previously been adjourned several times The UK’s third-largest steelworks has been placed …

“Colt are being extorted by Warlock ransomware group, they have been for over a week, Colt are trying to cover it up,” Beaumont wrote on Mastodon on Friday, Aug 15. …

Foreign criminals from 15 more countries face deportation before they have a chance to appeal in an expansion of the UK government’s “deport first, appeal later” scheme. Ministers are extending …

BBC Jon Ironmonger met documentary director Ellena Wood at Bugbrooke Chapel, Northamptonshire, where the Jesus Fellowship was founded in 1969 Hundreds of people are still traumatised as a result of …

Kate Whannel Political reporter Watch: Farage proposes sending prisoners abroad Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has proposed sending some prisoners overseas to serve their sentences, as part of a raft …

Rob England Data Journalist, BBC Verify Jack Fenwick Political correspondent EPA The government spent nearly a third less on hotels to house asylum seekers between April 2024 and March 2025, …

PA Media Many parts of the UK are in the throes of their third heatwave The UK is breaking heat and rainfall records increasingly frequently as its climate continues to …

Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has written to the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) to tell its bosses to refocus on defence and security. In a letter, …

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A European insurance group backed by Apollo Global Management is …

For more than a century, astronomers assumed she had simply “computed” complex calculations for the Victorian men who had exclusive use of Cambridge Observatory telescopes. But researchers now say that …