The UK government is considering selling the Sevington border control post in Kent, a facility built for post-Brexit customs checks, following this week’s UK-EU trade pact that could render dozens of similar sites redundant. Constructed in 2021 at a cost of tens of millions, the Sevington site near Ashford was designed to process up to 1,300 lorries per day, primarily ...
Fast-growing self storage operator Pink Storage has completed a £1.5 million investment into a newly acquired site in Nottingham, marking the latest milestone in its ambitious UK expansion strategy. The deal includes the £1.1 million acquisition of StoreWise, a 102-unit storage facility situated on a 1.3-acre site, alongside an additional £370,000 earmarked for upgrades. The investment will bring the site ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not had the opportunity for more than 590 days to visit hostages in Gaza and provide them with medical care. However, Communications Coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross Jacob Kurtzer tells Fox News Digital that the organization has been ready to provide hostages with medical assistance ‘from day ...
President Donald Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill’ passed the House of Representatives early on Thursday morning with few Republican defections. It is a significant victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who navigated deep inter-party friction within the House GOP Conference to deliver a product from which few Republican lawmakers ultimately defected. The bill is a sweeping multi-trillion-dollar piece of ...
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing two Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Wednesday. Trump fired all three Democratic members of the five-person board in February, resulting in two of them filing a lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton found that allowing unilateral firings would prevent the board from carrying out ...
Public sector borrowing in the UK surged past expectations last month, hitting £20.2 billion, as higher spending on public services and increased benefit payments drove up government outlays. The figure, released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), came in significantly above the £17.9 billion forecast by economists and surpasses the £19.2 billion recorded in April 2024, marking a fresh ...
OpenAI has announced a major strategic move to accelerate its expansion into hardware, with the acquisition of io, the San Francisco-based tech start-up founded by Sir Jony Ive, the former chief design officer at Apple. The merger, valued at $6.5 billion (£4.8 billion), will bring together Ive’s team of engineers, product developers and designers under the OpenAI umbrella. The deal ...
HSBC has told thousands of UK employees that their pay could be cut if they fail to meet new in-office attendance requirements, as the bank steps up efforts to tighten its hybrid working policy. In a memo sent to employees in its UK high street and commercial banking division, which employs around 24,000 people, the FTSE 100 bank said that ...
The UK government’s continued focus on traditional free trade agreements (FTAs) is misaligned with the country’s service-based economy, according to a new report from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), which calls for a fundamental rethink of Britain’s trade policy. The think tank argues that lengthy, goods-focused FTAs offer diminishing returns and are poorly matched to the UK’s core strengths in ...
Uber has launched a new on-demand delivery service called Courier, designed to help individuals and small businesses across the UK handle everyday errands and deliveries with ease. The service, now live in nine cities and set to expand to 20 by the end of the summer, is the latest move by Uber to diversify beyond rides and food delivery. Courier ...