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Russian-backed forces have made some advances in eastern Ukraine, Britain said on Friday, even as Moscow's hold weakens in the south, where a Russian-installed official has advised residents to flee a region Russia claims to have annexed. A British intelligence update said forces led by the private Russian military company…

Britain's finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng is to be sacked, The Times reported on Friday.

Britain’s Treasury chief is dashing back to London for urgent talks with Prime Minister Liz Truss amid growing expectations that they will scale back unfunded tax cuts to calm financial markets and quell a burgeoning revolt by members of their own party

Exclusive: Poll shows 65 per cent adults in Britain dissatisfied with Chancellor

British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and scrapped parts of their unpopular economic package on Friday in a desperate bid for political survival less than 40 days into her premiership.

Just as the rest of the world is turning its back on free-market economics, we have a purist in No 10, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The National Grid provides 43% of Britain's electricity through it's gas fired power plants

Eileen Turnbull has spent years fighting for justice after 24 building workers were arrested on Valentine’s Day 1973 after successful strike action by miners, dockers and others the year before

With people aged 65 and over controlling 51% of Britain’s wealth, the logic for investors is simple

A survey of Britain’s baby banks, which hand out essentials including nappies and clothes for under fives, found 90 per cent are facing their busiest year to date as demand soars

World Bank President David Malpass said on Thursday that the lender is preparing to disburse another $530 million to Ukraine by the end of October, financing enabled by guarantees from Britain and Denmark that brings total World Bank disbursements to the war-torn country to about $11 billion this year.