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With increasing improvements in technology, our homes - and the appliances that fill them - are becoming smarter and smarter.

UK average diesel costs have struck a 16-month high, less than a week after war gripped the Middle East. and sent oil costs rocketing.

South East Water has been fined £22m for repeated supply failures, watchdog Ofwat has said.

A company has admitted it supplied water that was unfit for human consumption after a parasitic outbreak in Devon.

Donald Trump's offer of US-backed insurance and naval escorts for shipping travelling through the Strait of Hormuz has not prevented maritime premiums soaring as underwriters scramble to reassess the risks to oil, gas and cargo vessels.

Middle-income earners will be hardest hit by a freeze to the student loan repayment threshold, experts have said.

On the first Wednesday of every month, we interview top chefs from around the UK, hearing about their cheap food hacks, views on the industry and more.

The rise in gas prices over the past 48 hours is without precedent.

The after-effects of a debacle that has seen taxpayers pay hundreds of millions for a pair of ferries at nearly four times the original budget, are continuing with the harbour that was too small to fit the ships set to be taken into public ownership.

The economic impacts of the Iran war are already being felt in global markets, and could raise energy prices and wider consumer bills in the UK before long.

The UK's economic forecast has been downgraded for 2026 but will then improve - and unemployment will peak this year, the chancellor has revealed.

The number of local authorities in England looking to impose the maximum council tax increase has fallen this year, but many are still planning sharp rises.

Gone are the days when the only low-alcohol option in a pub was a few bottles of Kaliber gathering dust on the shelf.

Rachel Reeves will insist she has "the right economic plan for our country" and that "working people are better off" thanks to Labour when she delivers her spring forecast to the Commons today.

Nearly 500 jobs are expected to be lost when craft beer giant BrewDog is taken over by an American cannabis firm.

There is nowhere else on the planet with quite as concentrated a supply of quite so much energy as the Arabian Gulf.

Oil and gas prices have seen dramatic lifts as financial markets give their first reaction to the war in the Middle East.

Fresh conflict in the Middle East threatens to make the cost of petrol more expensive for motorists in the UK, experts have warned.

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