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‘The violence is off the scale’: staff and passengers at risk as assaults on trains in Great Britain soar to record high
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‘The violence is off the scale’: staff and passengers at risk as assaults on trains in Great Britain soar to record high

Cases of abuse, spitting, head-butting and sexual harassment, have spiked as transport police numbers have dwindledWhen a train was halted outside Exeter St Davids station on Monday, rail staff leapt...

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Costa’s coffee shops return to profit with iced drinks and matcha on the menu
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Costa’s coffee shops return to profit with iced drinks and matcha on the menu

Costa Ltd reports operating profit of £20m in year to 31 December 2025 after losses of £13.5m in 2024Costa’s main coffee shop arm has returned to an operating profit after revamping its high street ou...

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Ministers explore how to stop regional leaders misusing planned new spending powers
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Ministers explore how to stop regional leaders misusing planned new spending powers

Labour wants to make sure mayors and council chiefs in England can be held to account for extra revenues devolved to themMinisters are mulling over how to ensure that England’s regional leaders do not...

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UK car industry faces ‘difficult trade-off’ between Chinese and EU markets
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UK car industry faces ‘difficult trade-off’ between Chinese and EU markets

Britain under pressure to put tariffs on cheap Chinese vehicle imports ahead of protectionist trade measuresBritain’s car industry is grappling with a “difficult trade-off” between China and Europe, a...

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Nitrite-free bacon sales boom in UK amid fears over curing chemicals
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Nitrite-free bacon sales boom in UK amid fears over curing chemicals

Shoppers are switching from traditional product despite little evidence alternative is saferBacon has long been a favourite of carnivores, but there is growing consumer concern about the health risks...

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‘I was making no money’: Travel agent side hustle promoted by influencers criticised over fees
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‘I was making no money’: Travel agent side hustle promoted by influencers criticised over fees

Would-be marketers enticed by online talk of entering a world of travel and easy cash find that the reality is rather differentMonths before she entered the Love Island villa, the content creator Yasm...

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Bailiffs and 100 unpaid teachers: inside the collapse of ‘groundbreaking’ yoga studio Triyoga
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Bailiffs and 100 unpaid teachers: inside the collapse of ‘groundbreaking’ yoga studio Triyoga

Formerly a favourite of the A-list, the chain has abruptly ceased trading, leaving teachers and customers blindsidedKate Comer is a single mother with two children, so she is used to living on a finan...

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UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail
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UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail

Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial systemUK authorities are being urged to intervene after it emerged that the online prediction m...

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‘There’s no such thing as democracy’: Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast
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‘There’s no such thing as democracy’: Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast

Who is really in charge – the people or the markets? In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Gre...

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BT accused of ‘bullying’ customers by pausing broadband in digital landline push
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BT accused of ‘bullying’ customers by pausing broadband in digital landline push

Companies race to switch households to ‘voice over internet protocol’ services by the end of JanuaryBT has been accused of “bullying” customers by temporarily cutting off their broadband to pressure t...

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'There’s no such thing as democracy': Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast
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'There’s no such thing as democracy': Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast

Who is really in charge – the people or the markets? In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Gre...

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‘People are deserting it’: why are London mansions struggling to sell?
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‘People are deserting it’: why are London mansions struggling to sell?

For decades, the capital’s house prices raced ahead of the national average – but now they are falling in prime areasAn elegant Georgian facade, a full-width balcony and an exclusive address in South...

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Utilities are public services – and should not be run as businesses | Letters
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Utilities are public services – and should not be run as businesses | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Will Hutton and Andy Haldane suggesting that they could be run for the public benefitWill Hutton and Andy Haldane advocate “turning [utilities] into public-benefit co...

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Bosses of three firms that supply trains to UK railways made £3.5m last year
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Bosses of three firms that supply trains to UK railways made £3.5m last year

Rolling stock companies, which also paid out nearly £400m to shareholders, accused of profiting at passengers’ expenseThe chief executives of three firms that rent out trains to Britain’s railways wer...

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John Maynard Keynes: the cultured economist who governments turn to in a crisis
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John Maynard Keynes: the cultured economist who governments turn to in a crisis

A new play about the art-loving Bloomsbury Group member speaks of the enduring battle of ideas with his free-market rival Friedrich HayekThe sound of guns from the advancing German armies could be hea...

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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse
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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse

Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuseTesco has become the first supermarket to introduce paid “safe leave” for victims of domes...

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UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a litre
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UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a litre

France proposes that EU nations and IEA release oil and diesel from reserves as Iran war drives up cost worldwide‘Half my day’s pay goes to filling up my car’Business live – latest updatesBritish moto...

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Gordon Ramsay’s UK restaurants stay in red despite sales topping £100m
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Gordon Ramsay’s UK restaurants stay in red despite sales topping £100m

Group says trading was helped by airing of Netflix documentary and opening of its 100th outletBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK arm of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants empire remained in the red last ye...

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Minister denies UK faces diesel shortage after Trump threatens to ban exports
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Minister denies UK faces diesel shortage after Trump threatens to ban exports

In effort to avoid panic at pumps, Keir Mather insists supply of fuel to Britain is ‘inherently resilient’UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a litreBusiness live – latest updatesThe government has...

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Kinky dating app Feeld’s founders share in record £3.8m dividend after sales jump
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Kinky dating app Feeld’s founders share in record £3.8m dividend after sales jump

Platform ‘for the curious’ says users outside the UK account for nearly 90% of its revenuesBusiness live – latest updatesFeeld, a UK-based dating app aimed at non-monogamous, queer and kinky users, ha...

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