THE INDEPENDENT

Many lenders have scrambled to hike their rates in recent days

Peter Mandelson’s career has been defined by comebacks, but his connection to Epstein may mark the end of the road for the Labour grandee

Cabinet minister Darren Jones is set to address MPs after PMQs

Rebecca Sloan secured offers from four Dragons for her hit product when she appeared on the show

Energy bills rising is an inflationary pressure the UK’s economy could do without

Bank of England says switching to wildlife offers a fresh opportunity to celebrate another vital aspect of the country.

Blustery showers could bring with them a chance of snow, the Met Office says

Heating oil’s more volatile pricing is fed straight through to consumers, a key difference to gas and electricity energy supplies

Inflation concerns could see the BoE pause their recent rate cuts - or head the other direction

A third of ticket purchases for the return of Ladies Day at Cheltenham Festival are women, bosses reveal as they target a turnaround in declining attendances with the rebrand

It is the third-biggest National Lottery prize ever claimed in the UK, according to operator Allwyn

Joe Bennett is travelling to the US to lobby Trump for support as the US ramps up strikes on Iran

Bosses at Cheltenham have made changes, including a price drop on pints and a reduced capacity – and on the opening day, attendees welcomed the new-look festival

Rent price rises ease as immigration falls and wages rise

Aleisha Rochester likely would have survive if she had been given correct antibiotics, an inquest found

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which runs the Stop It Now helpline to stop paedophiles viewing child abuse images online, said there was a 20 per cent rise in people accessing its services in last year

In February this year, Black Londoners were 3.4 times more likely than white Londoners overall to be stopped and searched by police. The national rate is four times

The Courts and Tribunals Bill includes plans to limit jury trials to cases with a likely sentence of three years or more

Charlotte Nichols opposed Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy's plans to curb access to jury trials

Exclusive: Parents of 16 teenagers who took their own lives have written to the prime minister questioning why he ducked the vote to ban social media for under-16s

George Finch was appointed leader of Warwickshire council aged 19 last year

British Airways will also pause repatriation flights from Muscat, Oman due to ‘reduced demand’

The ship, capable of shooting down drones and ballistic missiles, has left its naval base in Portsmouth for the eastern Mediterranean

Ex-player told to pay former England international Eni Aluko damages and legal costs after libel case

The government’s new vocational qualifications were announced as part of reforms to the curriculum and post-16 system

HMS Dragon left Portsmouth for the Mediterranean nine days after a drone strike hit a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus

The responsibility for the design, build and running of it will be within Government, according to Darren Jones.

The impacts of the conflict have been compared to Russia’s war on Ukraine, which pushed prices up for British households

Drivers are in a dispute over working hours

Questions mentioning government aid cuts were met with respondents being less likely to describe aid as essential and less likely to frame it as a moral duty

HMS Dragon has set sail a week after the prime minister announced its deployment

The disease is not usually be passed from person to person

Darren Cooper said he felt ‘excluded, humiliated and violated’ by the social media snub

Police are searching for missing Brazilian woman Vitoria Figueiredo-Barreto, who was last seen on a bus in Brightlingsea on March 3.

The former prime minister’s think tank said the government must avoid ‘drowning in process’ to secure public trust