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.

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 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 ...

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.

THE first patients have gone under the knife at the Victoria Infirmary Northwich’s new ‘high volume’ surgical centre in Winnington. Doctors at the Cheshire and Merseyside Surgical Centre performed ...

HALF-TERM holidaymakers will be among the first to use the brand-new security hall in Manchester Airport’s new Terminal 2.

Some 50,000 people have been isolated by flooding along the coast of New South Wales state, north of Sydney, after days of heavy rain.

North Korea said it began steps to investigate and arrest those responsible for the failed launch of its second naval destroyer after leader Kim Jong Un expressed fury over the incident that he said ...

It follows ‘unpersuasive’ evidence from her on the CCRC’s challenges and response to public criticisms in April, the committee said.

The Work and Pensions Secretary was speaking at the launch in Liverpool of a programme to get young people into education, work and training.