The group is pressing ahead with plans over the next six months to make annual cash savings of around £12 million.

The UK’s second largest supermarket firm said changes to national insurance rules will lead to a £140 million cost increase.

Pat McFadden also said comments made in the past about the president-elect by Cabinet ministers will not affect their relationship with him now.

The average UK house price hit a new high in October, putting it just shy of £294,000, according to an index. House prices increased by 0.2% in October, the fourth monthly increase in a row, Halifax ...

Campaigners have called for an “ecological Domesday survey” requiring large landowners to report on how they are looking after their land for nature. They say the assessment, so-called for its echoes ...