Payments to 20m homes part of package to cut energy bills and ease cost of living crisis, paid for by bank windfall tax ‘A pretty grim picture’: outlook for UK living standards slashed despite Healey’s budget Budget 2026: key points at a glance Budget 2026 live – latest updates John Healey promised to steer Britain through “global economic storms” as he announced an energy giveaway of £100 to 80% of households in England, funded by a smaller than expected windfall tax on banks. In his first budget, the chancellor said 20 million households in council tax bands A to D would receive a £100 payment – a measure he said would cost £2.
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British pharma company one of biggest fallers on FTSE 100 despite better than expected financial results Business live – latest updates Shares in GSK slid on Wednesday despite the UK drugmaker reporting better than expected financial results, as investors were unnerved by weaker sales of its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and shingles vaccines and recently launched medications. Britain’s second-biggest pharmaceutical company reported a 19% decline in pre-tax profit to £1.
Struggling households, new homebuyers and small shops stand to gain, while banks and online marketplaces could face higher levies You be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the books John Healey will present his first budget on Wednesday, which will set the tone for Andy Burnham’s premiership. Despite the chancellor’s promises in the summer that the tax and spending event would not be beset by the leaks that preceded those of his predecessor, Rachel Reeves, both official and unofficial sources have indicated much of what Healey is likely to announce.
Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’ as online regulator issues review of first nine months of new regime Landmark online safety measures...
41-year-old set on ‘dream to be able to race in Africa’ Rwanda to host despite criticism of human rights record Lewis Hamilton has said he hopes to remain racing in Formula One until he can take part in the African Grand Prix which is set to take place in Rwanda in the 2030s . The seven-time world champion believes it is right that F1 is to hold a race there despite criticism of the country’s human rights record.
Low-cost broadband provider Jio Platforms aims for £81bn valuation when it floats on the stock market on Wednesday India’s second-richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is launching what could be the country’s biggest-ever initial public offering (IPO), despite a stock market downturn. Mumbai-based Jio Platforms, a telecoms company backed by Meta Platforms and Google, is hoping to raise up to 302bn rupees (£2.
The new Greens leader says it is his understanding the Western Australian senator ‘agreed’ to take leave from the party room Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast The Greens leader, David Shoebridge, has said it was his understanding Jordon Steele-John agreed to take leave from parliament while misconduct allegations against him are investigated, and that it is “appropriate” that he does so, despite the Western Australian senator saying overnight that he was not on leave and had never agreed to stay away from parliament. Steele-John released a lengthy, explosive statement on Sunday night claiming Shoebridge pressured him to take leave after complaints about his conduct were made public last week, and accused an internal faction within the Greens of playing “nasty political games”.
Queensland coronial inquest into death of eight-year-old girl continues after 14 members of religious sect were convicted of her manslaughter Get...

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More than 60 overs have been lost from the first Test between South Africa and Australia despite a change by the ICC. Has cricket missed a trick?

Hundreds of people who came out on the streets despite the police's restrictions were detained on Sunday.
Sales rise 2% to £33. 8bn in the past six months, helped by strong trade online Business live – latest updates Tesco has raised its annual profit forecast as the supermarket group said consumer confidence has remained relatively resilient this year despite ongoing geopolitical tensions “creating uncertainty”.
More than 1 million people in Great Britain now vape despite having never regularly smoked, ONS data shows More than 1 million people in Great Britain now vape despite never having been regular smokers, with rates nearly doubling in just four years, according to figures that health experts describe as concerning. About 5.
Group says trading was helped by airing of Netflix documentary and opening of its 100th outlet Business live – latest updates The UK arm of Gordon Ramsay ’s restaurants empire remained in the red last year despite sales topping £100m for the first time after a string of openings in a London tower. The celebrity chef’s UK business, which has 34 outlets including the Savoy Grill, Pétrus and several Lucky Cat restaurants, narrowed losses to £5.
Collaboration regarded as ‘really big thing’ for retailer in some quarters despite backlash around designer’s antisemitic remarks in 2011 A month after it was announced that a planned exhibition dedicated to fashion designer John Galliano at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art would not proceed, his debut collection for fast fashion company Zara has been released. Called Re{form}, it was, according to a press release, “authored by the couturier John Galliano.

The Kenya refinery is part of Dangote's ambitious bid to expand and help industralise Africa by 2030.
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Despite having the highest voter turnout in nearly three decades, Israel's elections have had no clear winner. What does this mean for the country, asks the BBC's Yolande Knell.

The Ukrainian leader's hug with Steve Witkoff in the Norwegian capital is unlikely to dispel misgivings about US policy towards his country, writes Paul Adams.
Despite recent progress, almost a fifth of air travellers with disabilities are still dissatisfied with their experience Disabled passengers will...
Angus Taylor says opposition ‘worked closely’ with Parliamentary Budget Office but Liberal sources say it has not yet conducted a full analysis of the policy Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Coalition MPs concede the party’s newly released immigration policy has not been costed in full by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), despite Angus Taylor defending the plan as “budget neutral”. Taylor, and the deputy Liberal leader, Jane Hume, have said repeatedly the Coalition “worked closely” with the independent budget watchdog on its plan to reduce net overseas migration to 100,000 for two years.
In effort to avoid panic at pumps, Keir Mather insists supply of fuel to Britain is ‘inherently resilient’ UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a...

Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights With hours left before the funding expires, the Trump administration is pushing to direct more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human rights fund to a slate of awards that includes a huge $40m grant for an anti-communism fund, support for a group advancing white Afrikaner rights in South Africa, a campaign against Brazil’s supreme court and programs that would reward ideological allies in Europe who protect “western civilizational norms”. On Wednesday, the state department obligated the funds to the grantees hours before the deadline despite congressional concerns and requests not to do so, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
Decision to allow development of 190 new homes in north Somerset sparks campaign for change in the law Houses can be built on floodplains even if...
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Despite US-Israeli airstrikes and Tehran’s attacks on shipping, the waterway still has to provide a lifeline for those that live and work there Capt Farouq turns the wheel as he watches the ferry terminal of Bandar Abbas grow smaller, its bright lights flickering in the distance. In front of him, the navigation radar beeps periodically, its green and pink lights glowing in the darkness.
The UN's World Food Programme says 1. 4 million people in Gaza are suffering acute food shortages and that funding gaps are forcing cutbacks in critical aid, despite the U.

Despite the US president announcing energy infrastructure would not be targeted strikes have continued, Ukraine says.

Many Palestinians are still living in cramped tent cities, with the US plan to end the war largely stalled.
Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their rifles Armed Israeli settlers beat a photographer in the presence of Israeli soldiers, hospitalising him, as he covered worsening settler violence against olive farmers in the occupied West Bank. Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old veteran photographer for Agence France-Presse in Palestine, was assaulted by a group of settlers, who beat him with the butts of their rifles, despite him being marked as press.
Staunchly pro-Russia politician has dominated campaign and inflamed divisions despite not appearing on ballot Bosnian Serb nationalist politician...
Indian government issued with warning it would be in contempt of court if it failed to release Jagtar Singh Johal The British Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been released from a Delhi prison after the Indian high court warned the government it would be found in contempt of court if it continued to attempt to keep him in jail despite an 18 September court order releasing him on bail. Johal has been incarcerated for nine years without any full trial.
Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist's editor in chief , just visited Ukraine. She says, despite all its drone weaponry, Kyiv is under extraordinary bombardment, as Russia tries to make it unlivable.
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