OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment
Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypotheticalIt was to...
Ministers call for better tracking of teenagers at risk of dropping out of work or training in England
Councils and schools urged to do more as figures show there is no information on whereabouts of 32,100 ‘Neets’The gov...
Shetland councillors back plans to build tunnels to link some of largest islands
Financing options to be investigated for first two subsea projects that would link Mainland with Yell and Unst Counci...
The Guardian view on Andy Burnham’s speech: Rewiring Britain needs Westminster to give up real power | Editorial
The country’s likely next prime minister sketches a post-Thatcherite state built on radical devolution. The test is w...
Bedtime blues: London ‘killing off nightlife’ as UK city with strictest licensing rules
Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds are experiencing after-hours boom as a result of more lenient rulesLondon has the ea...
An absurd illustration of Britain’s housing problem | Letters
Readers respond to an article about what was once the UK’s most expensive house, which has lain empty for yearsGrand ...
Ministers could give billions raised by business rates to England’s regions
Exclusive: devolving tax is part of plans to give local areas more power in areas including justice, health and educa...
Toby Carvery to pay for orchard planting after causing outrage by felling 500-year-old oak
Restaurant chain took chainsaw to ancient oak tree in Enfield without permissionThe UK restaurant chain Toby Carvery ...
Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’
Research shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing d...
Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot
Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes run by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vulturesBring your sui...
‘The potential is huge’: Plymouth hopes defence money will have it sailing again
Local leaders are optimistic investment and regeneration plans will help make ‘ocean city’ an appealing place to live...
‘One day I thought, that’s enough’: the people fighting back against pothole-riddled roads
The dire state of roads has provoked pothole vigilantes and become a political flashpoint from Manchester to Manhatta...
On-street EV charging in UK is postcode lottery as drivers face council objections
Despite government pledges, more than 20 authorities will not allow gullies, citing safety, legal and parking concern...