July 2023

A collector paid £970 at McTear’s in Glasgow A signed copy of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter And The Cursed Child has been sold to a collector for £970 at a Glasgow auction. The special rehearsal edition, signed by Harry Potter author JK Rowling, the play’s director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, was the subject […]

That’s according to the property website, Rightmove The average rent being asked outside London has hit a new record of £1,231 per month, according to a property website. Average asking rents for new tenants in London also reached a new record of £2,567 per month, Rightmove said. The asking rent figures, covering Britain, are for

Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and PepsiCo are the worst packaging polluters in the UK, an annual waste audit has found. Campaign group Surfers Against Sewage, which released its annual audit on Friday, looked at more than 30,700 individual polluting items collected by more than 4,000 citizen scientists along coastlines, canal paths, bridleways and city streets over a

That’s according to figures from the ONS The UK’s retail sector did better than expected in June, new official data shows. Department stores and furniture sellers recorded a good month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Retail sales rose 0.7% last month, the official statistics body said. Experts had forecast a rise of 0.2%,

Rishi Sunak has insisted the next general election is not a “done deal” after losing two safe Tory seats but narrowly holding on to Boris Johnson’s old constituency in three by-elections. Labour won in Selby and Ainsty and the Liberal Democrats in Somerton and Frome, both overturning majorities of about 20,000 in what polling experts

Overcast conditions greeted the early starters as day two of the 151st Open Championship got under way at Royal Liverpool. Home favourite Tommy Fleetwood shared the overnight lead on five under par with Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo and South African amateur Christo Lamprecht, but was not due out in round two until shortly before 3pm. Rory McIlroy was set

A Canadian government official who crochets miniature clothing items for Barbies has said British viewers of the doll’s new film can expect a series of emotions from the “dark” yet “hopeful” comedy. Nathalie Kachulis, who works as a senior executive in Canada’s Federal Government, started a “passion project” around the summer of 2020 far removed

A 10-year-old Lionesses superfan has received support and a pair of signed boots from her heroes after she raised more than £14,500 for a young boy with cancer by selling England-inspired creations from her sewing machine. After getting a sewing machine for Christmas last year, Leah Walton has been selling World Cup-themed homemade scrunchies and

Counting is underway with results expected in the early hours of Friday Rishi Sunak is braced for a possible triple by-election blow after polls closed in contests which will be viewed as a test of his leadership. The Prime Minister has acknowledged that holding the seats, including Boris Johnson’s former constituency, will be a “tough

Vegan diets produce a quarter of the greenhouse gases of high-meat diets, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of Oxford looking at the eating habits of 55,000 people found meat-free eating to have a much lower environmental impact on land use, water pollution risk, water use and biodiversity loss. Agriculture is a