Purgatory News

Millions of households will receive a £400 discount off their energy bills and a £5 billion tax will be levied on oil and gas giants as Rishi Sunak moved to counter the soaring cost of living..

The first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Wales, health officials have said..

Japanese and US forces have conducted a joint fighter jet flight over the Sea of Japan, Japans defence ministry said..

Jose Mourinho insisted winning is very difficult as Roma beat Feyenoord to clinch the inaugural Europa Conference League title in Tirana..

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has told BT that the Government will examine French billionaire Patrick Drahis increased 18% stake in the company over national security concerns..

A dozen Konik pony foals are finding their feet at a nature reserve where their grazing will help create habitats for other species..

Voters think Scotland should continue to be home to Trident nuclear weapons if it splits from the United Kingdom, a poll has suggested..

Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas primary school where a gunmans rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said..

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has signed into law the strictest abortion ban in the US, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure..

Up to 99,000 hectares of land in England, from city fringes to wetlands, will be focused on supporting wildlife in five major nature recovery projects, the Government said..

Boris Johnson will try to shift attention to the cost-of-living crisis after the Sue Gray report laid bare the raucous culture of drinking that led to lockdown breaches in Downing Street..

An official inquiry into the partygate scandal has said the senior leadership in Boris Johnsons Government must bear responsibility for the culture which led to coronavirus lockdown rules being broken..

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said it will provide all of its patented medicines on a non-profit basis to some of the worlds poorest countries..

More than two in five (44%) landlords say they have supported tenants financially in the past year, such as by reducing or pausing rent, a survey has found..

Marks and Spencer said it is leaving its Russian franchise business as it also warned that its sales growth will slow due to the cost-of-living crisis..

More than two-fifths of British butterflies are threatened with extinction, with experts warning that action is needed to prevent species being lost..

A British photographer has set up a campaign to mark the two-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd..

Dyson has issued a call to robotics engineers to join the technology firm as it previewed its plans to build home assistant robots it wants to have in homes by the end of the decade..

The UK Government has announced it has reached a position where it can issue a licence that permits the sale of Chelsea..

Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia has easily dispatched Donald Trumps hand-picked challenger in a Republican primary that demonstrated the limits of the former president and his conspiracy-fuelled politics in a critical US swing state..