‘It breaks my heart’: how a refinery closure is hitting jobs and politics

In the second in a series, the Guardian looks at how Grangemouth struggles as Reform UK hopes to win votes

1 July changes: minimum wage, Centrelink payments, parental leave, road fines and everything else coming for 2025-26

New financial year means improved benefits for the less well off, and cameras that can see drivers using their phones

Thames Water court case shows there are alternatives to massive infrastructure

It is what we might call the HS2 fallacy: new reservoirs as tall as high-rise buildings that boost water companies’ assets

‘He left us with nothing’: the British investors swindled by a German property firm

Investors in the Dolphin/GPG ponzi scheme run by Charles Smethurst are angry that more is not being done to recover the €1bn owed to them

Beetroot ketchup to avocado oil mayo: how sauces have gone gourmet

With foodies forking out close to £1bn a year in a quest for big flavour, many of us have a fridge brimming with bottles

Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success

New York’s financial elite compare the city to crime-riddled Gotham after democratic socialist bests Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary

From mochi ice cream to strawberry sandos, Japanese sweet treats are tickling UK tastebuds

These small, joyful indulgences are ‘an antidote to life’s uncertainties’, food trend watchers say

Zopa launches current account with cashback and 7.1% on savings

Digital bank hopes to tempt switchers with package including in-credit interest and fee-free travel spending

Smithfield and Billingsgate market redevelopment plans begin – but traders’ future in doubt

City of London Corporation sets up regeneration team but has not allocated any new money for the project

The global south needs more than tinkering at a conference: debt forgiveness is the only fair way

Next week, a UN summit in Seville will discuss the future of financing the world’s poorer nations. It should first concede that the old methods have failed

US reaches deal with China to speed up rare-earth shipments, White House says

China confirms details amid efforts to end trade war but reiterates it will continue to approve export permits

Trump says he is ending Canada trade talks amid tech tax dispute

President assails ‘direct and blatant attack on our country’, accusing Canada of imposing unfair technology taxes on US

M&S boss slams ‘bureaucratic madness’ of products requiring ‘not for EU’ labels

Stuart Machin says labels, designed stop British goods leaking into bloc, add ‘another layer of unnecessary costs and red tape’

Starmer still faces Labour anger over risk of ‘two-tier’ disability benefits

Rebel MPs will try to lay new amendment on Monday giving colleagues a chance to delay bill despite No 10 concessions

Lotus plans to end UK sportscar production, putting 1,300 jobs at risk

Chinese owner Geely looks at options that include shifting assembly of its Emira from Norfolk to the US