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British households have been told to brace for a surge in inflation and multiple interest rate hikes this year after surging oil and gas prices sparked by Donald Trump's war on Iran.

Scientists in the UK have created the first lab-grown oesophagus and implanted it in pigs, which have been able to use it to swallow food.

Angela Rayner was "wrong" to stage a high-profile intervention criticising the direction of Sir Keir Starmer's government this week, Harriet Harman has said.

Nicola Sturgeon, the nationalist firebrand who dominated Scottish politics for almost a decade, has bowed out with an emotional valedictory speech.

Almost 200,000 students who were at university during the COVID-19 pandemic are seeking financial compensation.

Changes to the student loans system quietly announced in the last budget have provoked a loud and angry response that has woken up Westminster to what anyone who did a degree in the 2010s, and their parents, already knew.

The government has said it will directly fund the clear-up of 48,000 tonnes of waste at illegal tips in the north of England, following criticism of a north-south divide on tackling waste crime.

A Russian warship and a sanctioned oil tanker was shadowed by a Royal Navy warship and helicopter for 48 hours in the English Channel.

Gerry Adams has said he came to London's High Court "to assert the legitimacy of the republican cause" and "reject the allegations" he was behind three IRA bombings.

The selling of crossbows and hunting arrows will be banned under government plans following a series of violent attacks.