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Getty Images The government is promising more than £1bn in savings for motorists, as new rules on car insurance claims for whiplash come into effect on Monday. The changes aim to reduce the high numbers of fraudulent road traffic accident claims made each year. The new rules will enable insurers to cut premiums for millions

Getty Images Restaurants say plans to display the calorie content of food on menus in England should be delayed while the sector recovers from the pandemic. There are fears that the move will add extra costs to businesses at a time when they are least able to afford it. The new rules will affect restaurants,

Sally Shiels “Even when you triple check the rules, you could be refused to board – it put me out of pocket, distressed me, and distressed my elderly parents who I was visiting.” Sally Shiels was due to fly from Birmingham airport to Dublin on Friday 21st May to visit her parents. She says she,

Getty Images UK tourism is set for a slow recovery from the pandemic, with spending by holidaymakers this year expected to be just half the level of 2019. Forecasts by the VisitBritain agency indicate that domestic tourism will be worth £51.4bn in 2021, down from £91.6bn two years ago. Its forecast for spending by foreign

Pomai Uyehara In early May, Pomai Uyehara posted online adverts looking for new front-of-house staff and a line cook for her family-run Hawaiian restaurant in Hurst, Texas. Newly-vaccinated customers were flooding to the restaurant, which had only been open for takeaways until recently, for its barbeque chicken and poke bowls. But it’s been harder to

Tom Copeland The government has announced the creation of a new unified state-owned rail body called Great British Railways (GBR), promising better and more efficient train services from 2023 onwards. It says the reforms will make travel smoother, removing the existing “over-complicated and fragmented” system. Complaining about rail travel in the UK has long been

PA Media The government has announced the biggest shake-up in the UK’s railways since privatisation in the mid-1990s. It will see the creation of a new state-owned body, Great British Railways (GBR), which will set timetables and prices, sell tickets in England and manage rail infrastructure. But private operators will still be contracted to run

At the end of the Master’s degree, students usually think while they should go for a PhD or another Master’s degree. It is excellent to think about this decision, as there are significant differences between both levels that you may need to consider before starting to apply for a new degree program. Though both PhDs

Getty Images The UK is facing a shortage of Cadbury 99 Flakes after a surge in demand for soft-serve ice creams topped with the crumbly, chocolate treat. The ice cream toppers are half the size of the Flakes sold at newsagents and petrol station counters. “We are seeing a recent increase in demand for our

Getty Images Monday sees another milestone in the reopening of the economy: people in most of the UK will be able to go to a bar or restaurant and eat indoors. But some favourite haunts will no longer be there: over the last year, thousands of establishments have closed, latest surveys indicate. Across Britain, there

Getty Images Environmentalists are warning the government to ignore what they call “hype” over the use of hydrogen to provide heat. New natural gas boilers will be phased out next decade because their emissions add to climate change. Oil and gas firms are pushing for so-called “blue” hydrogen to be used to provide heat instead.

Online shopping scams surged during the pandemic with police data suggesting people in their 20s were most likely to fall victim. Fraudsters posted bogus adverts for pets, cars and caravans to dupe people into handing over money. Romance scams have also risen during the Covid crisis, affecting men and women of all ages. BBC local

Getty Images Little more than six months after Boeing’s 737 Max was cleared to fly again by US regulators, the aircraft finds itself under intense scrutiny once again. The discovery of a potential electrical problem last month led to the renewed grounding of more than 100 aeroplanes, belonging to 24 airlines around the world. Deliveries

Getty Images Elon Musk has said his rocket company SpaceX will now accept the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment. In a tweet he said the commercial space exploration firm will launch the “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” early next year. It came as dogecoin continued to fall after the technology billionaire said on television that

The Post Office says it will help clear the names of hundreds of former sub-postmasters it wrongly took to court. They were prosecuted based on evidence from the flawed Horizon system the Post Office installed in branches. It is now contacting 540 former workers with potentially relevant convictions, and seeking further information in another 100

Getty Images The travel industry has expressed disappointment that so few countries are on the UK government’s green list for travel, describing the announcement as “overly cautious”. The traffic light system means travel abroad from 17 May will not be illegal. The 12 green list countries, which include Portugal, Gibraltar and Israel, will not require