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The West Midlands beat Kent to the top spot due to its own thriving business community.

Kent revealed as one of the best places to start a business in the UK

The West Midlands beat Hampshire to the top spot due to its own thriving business community.

Hampshire revealed as one of the best places to start a business in the UK

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Relaxing Winter Escapes: The UK’s best countryside staycations this winter

Top 10 locations

Housing Report: Which regions saw largest changes in cash property purchases?

Where are England's most relaxed areas

Freshers Flu? The sickie capitals of the UK, revealed

Cash-strapped Brits think living in multigenerational home necessary

The full state pension is set to rise by £460 starting in April, according to official wage figures.

Full state pension to rise next April

Millennials are betting using credit, a survey has found

Nearly half of Millennial gamblers use credit to fund betting

Finance breakdown for singles vs those in a couple

The ‘cost of being single’ crisis: Millions face difficulty saving

Increasing problem of ‘tech neck’ pain solved with new invention

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UK inflation hits 2% for first time in 3 years - what it means for you

Inflation may have dropped but that doesn't make any of us better off

Inflation at two per cent is welcome, but life isn't suddenly easier Tom Morton

Rishi Sunak said Sadiq Khan had "put up taxes by 70%". Credit: Mark Hall/Getty/Adobe

Analysis Are Rishi Sunak’s claims on crime going down and taxes going up true?

UK close to recession after economy falls by 0.1% in third quarter of 2023, ONS figures reveal

UK close to recession after economy slumps again

The UK's economy has grown by 0.2% in August, with car manufacturing leading the economic boost over the past three months. (Credit: Getty Images)

UK economy grew by 0.2% in August as service sector provides boost

The number of young women in the UK who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual now stands at roughly one in 10.

1 in 10 young women in the UK identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
The number of young women in the UK who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual now stands at roughly one in 10.
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Salary of Happiness: Find out how much money is enough to be happy in the UK - top 10 cities ranked

Find out how much money you need to be happy across 10 UK cities

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes house prices data every month (images: NationalWorld)

Explainer Are house prices falling near you? Check with our interactive tool

Food inflation: UK supermarkets are continuing to put up prices on the budget food and drink products (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive Supermarkets continue to raise value range prices at pace

UK food inflation fell slightly in April - but it is still rising for many key food and drink items (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/Adobe)

15 food products with biggest rise in inflation including staple items

Government borrowing is very different to the sort of borrowing households do (image: AFP/Getty Images)

Explainer UK borrowing hits near record high amid energy and inflation crises

Smoking is now at least 15% more expensive following Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023 - Credit: Adobe

Bad news for smokers: Cigarettes now cost more than ever

UK loses 220,000 working days to strike action in January

ONS House Price Index: some council areas saw the value of property fall by more than 4% last month. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

20 UK areas with biggest drop in house prices last month

The average UK house price edged down in November from a previous record high, according to official figures. (Pic: Getty)

UK house prices: average price falls in November 2022 - ONS figures

The growth was also driven by people packing into pubs and bars to watch the World Cup (Photo: Getty Images)

UK recession in doubt as economy unexpectedly grows in November

Energy Price Guarantee: Black and Asian families spend more on energy compared to white families - so could be hardest hit when energy prices go up in April (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

End of energy price cap ‘a disaster’ for black and Asian families
The Energy Price Guarantee will be scaled back in April - and ethnic minorities could be hardest hit by rising gas and electricity prices.
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Cost of living: study finds link between energy bills and depression

The government is considering reducing the number of international students allowed at UK universities. Credit: Getty Images

Limiting foreign students could bankrupt universities, adviser warns

Inflation hit a 41-year high at 11.1% in October. Credit: Mark Hall

Inflation rate hit a 41-year high at 11.1% in October

Real wages fall by 3.8% as recession looms, ONS figures reveal

UK regions with the highest Covid infection rates

EasyJet claims the 28-day package could save Brits £277 per month on bills (Photo: EasyJet)

EasyJet launches month-long holiday that’s ‘cheaper than staying home’

Supermarket value range price tracker: inflation-busting price increases have been recorded across Aldi, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco this year. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Exclusive: ‘value’ range food prices going up faster than inflation

Britain’s economy shrank unexpectedly in August (Photo: Getty Images)

UK economy shrinks unexpectedly in August raising recession fears

Covid infection levels continued to rise across England at the end of September, with southern regions now catching up with the North, the latest official figures show.

UK regions with highest number of Covid infections as cases rise again

In 2021, there were 5,583 suicides registered in England and Wales

Suicide rates did not rise during Covid pandemic, new figures show

McDonald’s is hiking the price of its cheeseburger for the first time in 14 years (Photo: Adobe)

McDonald’s hikes price of cheeseburger for first time in 14 years

Why the erosion of Covid data needs to stop

UK Covid cases at highest level in 3 months - ONS survey

Price rises have hit consumers across the UK (image: Getty Images)

UK inflation rate: 20 items with the biggest price rises in June 2022

Public sector pay has been outstripped by inflation, leaving workers worse off than they were a decade ago

Public sector workers £43 a week worse off than in 2010

10 places where Covid is spreading fastest amid BA4 and BA5 wave

ONS Covid data: cases are continuing to rise across all four UK nations as the BA.4 ad BA.5 variants spread

20 UK areas where the most people are infected with Covid

A rise in clothing, energy and petrol prices are driving the rate of inflation at present. (Pic: Shutterstock)

What does inflation mean? Current UK cost of living rate

Long Covid symptoms are estimated to be adversely affecting the day-to-day activities of 989,000 people (Photo: Getty)

Long Covid negatively affecting daily lives of nearly a million people

Spain could become the first European country to downgrade Covid-19 to a ‘flu-like’ status (Photo: Getty Images)

Spain pushes EU to downgrade Covid to ‘flu-like’ status

Data from the ONS shows that the CPI rose by 3.1% in the 12 months to September 2021. (Pic: Shutterstock)

CPI September 2021: what is UK consumer price index?

The most popular baby names for 2020 have been revealed - with Olivia and Oliver taking the top spots.

Interactive map reveals most popular baby names of 2020 where you live

UK job vacancies reach 20-year high at 1.2m

Wages have been rising faster than inflation - but does that tell the whole story about the health of the UK economy?

Are wages really rising? We fact-check the PM’s claims

The Office for National Statistics says asking victims about their alcohol consumption and nightlife habits is necessary to “better understand how different lifestyle factors can relate to a range of crimes and experiences”

ONS denies victim blaming for asking abuse victims if they were drunk

Overall food prices have risen by 0.2% during the last year - but prices for individual food groups are up to 13.4 higher%.

Revealed: 20 food and drinks with the biggest price increases in the last year

Over 150,000 people in the UK have died from Covid-19, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (Photo: Shutterstock)

Figures show over 150,000 people in the UK have died from Covid-19

The price of clothes, second-hand cars and toys dropped in February due to the pandemic (Getty Images)

Drop in clothes prices, second-hand cars and toys helps to ease UK inflation