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Growing up in rural India, my grandmother would feed the village dog half a chapati and a bowl of milk each afternoon, surely insufficient for its needs. The dog survived by scavenging from nearby homes. Years later, living in Delhi, I encountered street dogs refusing biscuits, overfed by households competing…

Tory trade minister promised to ‘assist’ plans to open £600m Puy du Fou site in Oxfordshire, emails shows

The Department for Business and Trade said it was the UK’s first Trade Strategy to be published since Brexit.

THE UK Government has been labelled “dangerously flat-footed” in its attempts to recover billions of pounds worth of taxpayer losses from an…

At least £600,000 each relating to Horizon IT scandal remains unclaimed, with officials reluctant to recontact victims

The Government announced earlier this month that more than £1billion has been paid out to subpostmasters across the Horizon-related schemes.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) – comprised of cross-party MPs – criticised the lack of incentive for lenders to recover the money

The Public Accounts Committee criticised the lack of incentive for lenders to recover the money.

The announcement comes after lead campaigner Sir Alan Bates said redress schemes had ‘turned into quasi-kangaroo courts’.