Many will remember weighing up what to call their newborn - from choosing a name that has been popular through the ...

Months after the SSA dropped its top baby name list, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed the top ones in ...

UK inflation is set to have edged higher last month as summer spending pushed up flight and hotel costs, and food prices ...

The executive chairman of Iceland said he will pay customers to catch shoplifters as thieves cost the supermarket chain £20 ...

Iceland is offering a financial incentive for customers to report shoplifters in stores as retail crime continues to ...

Total construction output is estimated to have grown by 1.2% in Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2025 compared with Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025; new work increased by 1.1%, and repair and maintenance grew by 1 ...

The rise in monthly production output in June 2025 resulted from increases in “manufacturing” (up 0.5%), “electricity and gas” (up 3.3%), and “water supply and sewerage” (up 0.5%); this was partially ...

That was because, across large parts of the nation, particularly in rural and coastal areas, there was a natural population ...

The economy grew fractionally in the second quarter of the year, but slowed compared to the period before, Office for ...

Outside London, the areas that saw the biggest jumps in the natural-born population were Birmingham (9,015 more births than ...

Output grew only 0.3 per cent between April and June - a sharp slowdown on the previous three-month period when the economy ...

The 52-year-old, a “confirmed atheist” who is professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham and a ...