Tucked into the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina is 'the friendliest town in America.' ...

Lending is forecast to grow by just 2.8 per cent in 2026, compared with an expected growth of 3.2 per cent this year, according to economic forecasting group EY ITEM Club.

John Tonkiss, the outgoing chief executive of retirement homes specialist McCarthy Stone, said too many 'older people rattle around in homes that are too large for them'.

Asking price reductions of homes already on the market reached their highest level since February 2024, the property portal said.

Boss Andrea Baldo has been refocusing on its home market, including concessions in John Lewis and Selfridges stores.

Two thirds of Scottish landlords have hiked their rents so far this year, compared to 58% across Britain as a whole.

Bereaved families will soon be lumbered with daunting new bureaucracy that will cause misery, extra costs and the risk of heavy fines, money experts are warning.

Blanchfield, from Minnesota, admitted that there's a lot of drawbacks to being so big - ranging from constantly hitting her head to not being able to fit in clothes or in cars.

There are seven companies that are now so big they have the power to crash global stock markets - or make savers worldwide ever richer.

Signs that the Issa brothers are out of their depth in the cut-throat world of supermarkets are there for all to see.

Welsh is the writer best known for his 1993 novel, which has sold a million copies in the UK alone and was turned into a hit film starring Ewan McGregor.

The two-part joke mocked president Trump himself by referencing the recently released emails from Epstein's estate.