Betting and Gaming Council chief executive Grainne Hurst has described the decision in the Budget to raise some gambling duties as a “devastating hammer blow” to the betting and gaming industry.

The Chancellor has confirmed a three-year stamp duty holiday on shares bought in new UK flotations in a move showing Britain is “backing its markets”, according to the London Stock Exchange.

The former defence secretary criticised the ‘chaos’ he said surrounded Rachel Reeves’s Budget after receiving his knighthood from the ...

The UK Government is taxing the oil and gas industry “to death”, a trade body has said as the Chancellor refused to scrap the windfall tax. The energy profits levy (EPL) was placed on the profits of ...

A fourth person has been charged in connection with alleged offences under the Terrorism Act after a protest in Edinburgh in support of Palestine Action.

First Minister John Swinney said money freed up by the Chancellor’s announcement would be used to help in the fight against child poverty.

Affordale Fury bids for an overdue deserved victory in the Racing TV Club Day Chase at Thurles on Thursday.

The Chancellor has announced increases to the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage as part of her budget address to parliament.

Cumbria Tourism has welcomed Holiday Inn Express Barrow-in-Furness as its newest strategic partner, strengthening joint efforts to support ...

Nicky Henderson says the decision not to harmonise betting tax has helped racing avoid “a really bad situation” in the future. Chancellor Rachel Reeves opted to leave duty on racing bets unchanged at ...

Westminster Abbey’s website says: “A national flag is flown on the day when the high commission of a Commonwealth member state is represented at evensong.” Pakistan rejoined the Commonwealth in 1989.

CUMBRIA Police have conducted road safety patrols amid reports of vehicles 'parking dangerously' outside a primary school.