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Royal Mail should cut second-class delivery days, says regulator Ofcom

Postal service set to be allowed to deliver second-class letters on alternate weekdays and not…

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Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 on average this year

Largest price hike since privatisation is even more than the £86 predicted by Ofwat as…

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Meta agrees to pay Trump $25m for suspending accounts over Capitol riots

Settlement originates from lawsuit by president against the platform, one of several filed after 6…

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Lloyds Banking Group to shut another 136 UK high street branches

Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches to close as group accelerates shift to digital…

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What International AI Safety report says on jobs, climate, cyberwar and more

Wide-ranging investigation says impact on work likely to be profound, but opinion on risk of…

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DeepSeek advances could heighten safety risk, says ‘godfather’ of AI

Yoshua Bengio says closer competition in field could prove dangerous, as international panel says AI’s…

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Child poverty predicted to rise in most of UK except Scotland

Joseph Rowntree Foundation calls for changes to benefits system amid pressure on Labour to scrap…

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UK reportedly planning electric car loan subsidies to push sales

Ministers in talks with vehicle finance sector about making more low-interest or interest-free loans available…

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‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional…

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Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says

Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’…

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