The Latest Breaking News from Office for National Statistics

Evidence of cooling in demand for labour amid 136,000 drop in employees between March and April

Turning a blind eye to anti-competitive deals wouldn’t improve UK’s reputation as good place to do business, suggests Competition and Markets Authority

A TORY MP referred to an antisemitic conspiracy theory in a chilling speech at a conservative conference in Westminster on Monday.

In December 2022 the number of excess deaths was 5,900, which is 13.5 per cent above the five-year average

Conversations about the weather are rarely actually about the weather. As the social anthropologist Kate Fox writes in her brilliant and often snort-inducing book, Watching the English, weather chat is in fact “a form of code, evolved to help us overcome our natural reserve and actually talk to each other.”…

Women are also more concerned than men about global warming

Retail bosses under pressure as food inflation proves more ‘sticky’ than expected

THE UK economy marginally grew over the first quarter of the year, according to official data, despite an unexpected slump in March.

But there was 0.1% growth in first quarter overall thanks to a stronger January, ONS says