EasyJet announces ‘grans go free’ deal on holidays to Europe

Offer comes as research shows half of families in UK have never holidayed abroad with grandparents

Andrea Leadsom: Brexit checks are the price of ‘being a sovereign state again’

Health minister and Brexiter says businesses experiencing ‘some friction’ should adapt to changes in trade rules

Yes, it is cricket: Italy gives go-ahead to insect flour for human use

Nutrinsect defies Italian food purists with cricket flour that can be incorporated into range of foods

Obesity drug boom pushes Novo Nordisk shares to record high

Market value of Danish drugmaker behind Wegovy and Ozempic tops $500bn as demand soars

How UK’s new border controls will affect plants and animal imports

Today is first stage in a series of changes likely to raise costs for businesses and consumers

Eurozone narrowly avoids recession as German economy shrinks

Single currency zone’s stagnating GDP figure will add to pressure for ECB interest rate cut

Brexit border rules could cut shelf life of fresh food from EU by a fifth, say experts

Requirement for importers to give 24 hours’ notice of deliveries described as ‘unfeasible’ by suppliers

Amazon drops $1.4bn deal to buy iRobot after EU veto reports

Roomba maker announces plans to axe 31% of workforce and exit of CEO after collapse of acquisition

‘It’s impossible to plan’: UK importers braced for storm at ports amid new Brexit checks

This week sees the introduction of new government policy on the control of EU produce entering the UK, with firms fearing delays, rising costs and the ability of border posts to cope

Sorry, France, you’re on the hook at Hinkley Point

As its own finance director warned: EDF understood exactly what it was signing in 2016

Royal Mail services may be about to change: how do other countries handle postal services?

UK’s Royal Mail braced for review result as Saturday letter deliveries expected to be cut

SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report

Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities

New Brexit checks ‘pose existential threat’ to UK fruit and flower growers

Exclusive: NFU warns blanket import checks from April could fuel long delays and damage future crops

Brexit cost the UK the only good thing Margaret Thatcher ever did

Now that the UK has been taken out of trade zone, we are left only with the damage she wreaked on the British polity

Women added to Cop29 climate summit committee after backlash

Panel was originally composed of 28 men, a move condemned as ‘regressive’ and ‘shocking’