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The latest Consumer Prices Index inflation data for April will be released on Wednesday.

Up to 90 new homes will be built in Albrighton after outline plans for the latest phase of a housing development got the go-ahead.

JLR has signed a multi-year deal to use advanced battery intelligence software in its next-generation electric vehicles.

Ten nations and the EU have agreed to established a network of AI Safety Institutes, but China is not among them.

One of the country’s most historic toll bridges constructed in 1881 is set to move into the 21st century.

The firm, which was founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Alex Chesterman, has cut hundreds of jobs in recent months.

Tesla is struggling with falling global sales, slowing electric vehicle demand, an ageing model line-up and a stock price that has fallen 30% in 2024.

A spokesman for Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, where the flight was diverted to, said the 73-year-old suffered a suspected heart attack.

A new programme has been launched to help boost business and growth.

However, the global financial agency stressed that ambitious structural reforms to improve living standards ‘are urgently needed’.

Planning laws coming into effect today aim to make it easier for farmers to convert unused buildings into new homes and shops.

Supermarket prices are 2.4% higher than a year ago, slowing for the 15th month in a row from April’s 3.2%, according to analysts Kantar.

An educational trust has launched work to install solar panels on four of its key buildings in a bid to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

A fast-growing storage giant has taken over sites in Shropshire and Herefordshire as part of its expansion plans.

Travelling for half term? The chances are you will come up against traffic jams or rail problems.

Judge Juan M Merchan told Robert Costello, a former federal prosecutor, that his conduct was ‘contemptuous right now’.

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy has raised concerns about a lack of an industrywide approach to tackling misinformation.

The report found UK postings for jobs which require AI skills have grown 3.6 times faster than for all other jobs.

Experts at Robert Gordon University analysed more than 6,560 pathways for the UK’s offshore energy industry.

Defence lawyers said they have not decided whether Trump will testify.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the deployment of the vehicles will be ‘a real boost to both safety and our economy’.

The West Midlands saw 580,289 plug-in electric cars registered between 2009 to 2023.

The UK interest rate currently sits at a 16-year-high of 5.25%.

Donald Trump’s hush money trial is heading into the final stretch, with prosecutors’ star witness set to return to court for another grilling.

The magazine said it was following ‘a court order’ when it limited access to an article about the convicted murderer in the UK.

The ride-hailing company announced the measure to help it meet its pledge that all Uber vehicles in London will be fully electric by the end of 2025.

Floor coverings wholesaler Likewise Group is celebrating taking orders worth £1 million on one day for the first time.

The group reported a 34% rise in profits after tax to 1.92 billion euros (£1.64 billion) for the year to the end of March.

A supplier of root produce has expanded its partnership with landed estates business Bradford Estates to let farmland in order to grow parsnips for the UK’s leading supermarket chains.

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