He received £1.9 million in fixed salary, pension and benefits for the year, but saw this heavily eclipsed by around £11.8 million of bonuses.

Oil prices have risen further despite a global deal to release a record 400 million barrels of reserves as Iran continued to strike key energy and shipping infrastructure.

Strong winds are causing travel disruption in many parts of the country where a weather alert warning of gusts of up to 70mph is in force. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning of wind in ...

Welsh Water is set to pay a proposed £44.7 million after the industry regulator found “serious and unacceptable” breaches in the supplier’s sewage and network services.

Raising water levels on lowland peat for ‘paludiculture’ can support nature recovery as well as store carbon, researchers say.

Restart the Heart CIO launches in Haydock, installing public defibrillators and offering CPR training to boost cardiac arrest survival rates in ...

John Swinney has said voters will be able to judge him in 2031 if he misses the Government’s child poverty target, as he hinted he will not resign if he fails to achieve his key pledge.

Near-term expectations for the housing market have softened after an encouraging start to the year, the Royal Institution of Chartered ...

The £75,000 taxpayer-funded payout Lord Peter Mandelson received after being sacked as ambassador to Washington was “value for money”, a minister has argued. The sum awarded to the disgraced peer ...

A ST HELENS councillor has condemned repeated incidents of fly‑tipping as he shared a picture of dumped waste left at a roadside location. Councillor Michael Haw pictured rubbish discarded on the bend ...

THE moon has been captured on camera by members of the St Helens Star Camera Club. Each week, we ask our budding amateur photographers to take pictures based on a theme, and this week, it was the moon ...

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