Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he held telephone talks with US President Donald Trump and agreed to hold “productive” discussions at an upcoming tariff talks between the two sides.

The Met Office has forecasted a mix of sunshine and rain for Mid Cheshire this bank holiday weekend. Friday, May 23, will start sunny, with temperatures rising from 8C to a high of 20C by the ...

Retail sales volumes were up 1.2% in April 2025, following a rise of 0.1% in March 2025 (revised down from 0.4%). April’s retail sales growth surpassed expectations, with analysts having predicted a 0 ...

Household energy bills will fall by 7% from July, Ofgem has confirmed. The typical bill will drop by £129 to £1,720 per year when the regulator’s new price cap – which sets the limit on how much firms ...

The music agency Sound Talent Group said that three of its employees, including co-founder Dave Shapiro, died on the private ...

Jimmy Wayne Carwyle was found incompetent by a county-appointed psychiatrist, but has demanded a second opinion.

Country singer CMAT has said a “fake version” of Irish culture is being “being built up by Americans and English people and ...

Rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, gave evidence in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s sex trafficking trial.

Multiple people on board a private plane that crashed into a San Diego neighbourhood are dead, authorities said. Assistant ...

The comment comes almost a week after the first face-to-face engagement between the countries’ delegations since 2022.

AN inquest has been opened after a woman died while in custody. Lorna Carter, who was an inmate at HMP Styal in Wilmslow, died on January 27 of this year aged 58. On Wednesday, Cheshire Coroner’s ...

Mid Cheshire MP Andrew Cooper and Tatton MP Esther McVey have declared their opposition to the plans in their current form.