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Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondent Getty Images Competition among lenders suggests that mortgage rates could be cut in the coming weeks, according to brokers and analysts. In a newly-published report, financial information service Moneyfacts said “expectations are high for a booming market in 2026”. Its data shows the choice of mortgage products has risen to…

More than 80 performers have signed the letter, with Derry Girls actor Siobhán McSweeney saying she was “deeply worried” that the government was lagging behind. “There is a way to work alongside AI and to use it as a tool that benefits us rather than rendering us obsolete,” she said. “Our audiences want that human…

“We’re seeing it in terms of technology, we see it in terms of the approach, we see it in terms of these kinds of tactics, and we see it in terms of the way these two states try to support each other and try to benefit together,” she said during a visit to Saudi Arabia.

Higher energy bills drove UK inflation up to 2.9% in the year to July, the highest level in four months, according to new figures. Gas prices soared at the sharpest pace in almost four years, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, leading to an increase in the cap on household energy bills in July….