Russia moves to block WhatsApp in messaging app crackdown

A dad-of-two wants a bus operator to reconsider its charges for a popular school route amid plans for a huge fare hike. Ambi Ambituuni’s daughter currently uses the 85 bus operated by National Express to travel between her home in Coventry and her school in Rugby – journeys costing £165 a term. From January 2,…

In a statement, the Department for Transport said that although it would not be rolling out any new smart motorways, they remained among our safest roads in terms of deaths and serious injuries, and were just as safe, or safer, than the roads they replaced.

The Trump administration will invest $1.6bn (£1.2bn) in a US critical minerals firm, marking officials’ latest push to reduce China’s dominance over the rare earths sector. The agreement with USA Rare Earth, which will give the government a stake in the firm, emerged days after US President Donald Trump claimed to have secured the “framework”…

With a week to go until he delivers the Budget, Healey said: “We know that price rises from conflicts in the Middle East and Europe are hitting Britain and countries worldwide.” He said the International Monetary Fund last week had praised the UK government for its “fiscal discipline”, and that the government has just given…

Cyber-security researcher Charlie Kelly from Have I Been Squatted carried out an analysis of how the attack worked and said the new wave of recruitment scams were hard to spot. “This wasn’t a badly written email with a suspicious attachment – this person was walked through what looked like a real job interview, on real…