£150,000 funding to help reduce North Yorkshire cold deaths

Taiwan says it will block access to popular Chinese social media app RedNote or Xiaohongshu for one year following concerns over online shopping scams. The island’s Criminal Investigation Bureau said Thursday it detected more than 1,700 fraud cases on the app since last year, with total losses worth more than NT$247m (£5.9m; $7.9m), local media…

Theo LeggettInternational Business Correspondent Getty The boss of Lamborghini said enthusiasm for electric cars was declining The boss of Lamborghini has said its customers still want “the sound and the emotion” of internal combustion engines, and the company will use them in its cars for at least the next decade. Speaking to the BBC at…

Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondent Getty Images Regulator Ofgem will announce the next energy price cap later on Friday, with prices for millions of households expected to fall slightly at the height of winter. Gas and electricity bills remain relatively high, and the sudden drop in temperature has brought the costs to the forefront of…

A total of 1,017 wildfires have been recorded in England and Wales this year, according to data shared by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), which matches last year’s record. Disposable barbecues “cannot be considered a safe product” in the current conditions and they “must not be made available for sale either in store or…

The boss of South East Water (SEW) should not receive a bonus after tens of thousands of its customers were recently left without water, the Environment Secretary has said. David Hinton was awarded £115,000 last year on top of his £400,000 salary, and his bonus is in line to more than double this year. That…