Gold has climbed above $3,500 an ounce for the first time while stocks on Wall Street and the dollar rose following Monday’s sell-off prompted by Donald Trump’s blistering attack on the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell. Spot gold reached the record price of $3,500.01 (£2,620) on Tuesday, extending a rally that has pushed bullion up…
A Welsh politician who is among 15 people charged after bets were placed on the timing of the 2024 general election is to quit at the next Senedd election. Russell George, the Conservative member for Montgomeryshire, said he was withdrawing his candidacy to stand in next year’s election and focusing on clearing his name. The…
Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, says he is leaving the flagship news program because he lost his journalistic independence. In a staff memo obtained by the New York Times, Owens said that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I…
Britain’s manufacturers will start cutting jobs “within weeks” unless the government can strike a deal to safeguard the UK economy from Donald Trump’s trade war, industry leaders have told MPs. Senior executives from the UK’s automotive, manufacturing and energy sectors warned a committee of MPs to expect job losses this summer if the US moves…
British Steel says it will end a consultation on up to 2,700 redundancies without action, after the government took control of the firm earlier this month. In March, the Chinese company Jingye, which bought British Steel in 2020, proposed to close Scunthorpe’s two blast furnaces. It launched a consultation that it said could affect between…
Marks & Spencer has apologised to customers after a “cyber incident” affected contactless payments and the pick up of online orders in it stores in recent days. The retailer told shoppers that delays to click and collect orders currently continued but it was “working hard to resolve” the issue. It told customers and staff they…
1. Dutton blames Labor for poll decline Dutton’s campaign has been plagued by stumbles, policy backflips and mixed messaging, which have coincided with a dramatic collapse in the opinion polls. Asked to rate his campaign performance so far, Dutton offered a muted acknowledgment of the decline. But the opposition leader wasn’t fessing up to any…
With its chalk-white face and bright flame-coloured markings, the white-faced darter dragonfly is a distinctive sight as it flutters around England’s peat bogs. The rare dragonfly, which breeds in mossy pools, is at threat of local extinction, but now conservationists are trying to end its population crash by introducing it into a remote corner of…
Forty years ago the then Prince of Wales invited, at his own expense, the artist John Ward to join an official visit to Italy as an official tour artist, with the brief to draw or paint whatever inspired him. Since then, 42 artists to have undertaken this role, collectively visiting 95 countries during 69 tours,…
Gary Lineker has suggested the BBC wanted him to leave Match of the Day, ahead of his departure next month after more than a quarter of the century at the helm of the show. In an interview with Amol Rajan for the BBC, Lineker discussed his departure from the football highlights programme, which was announced…
