Hundreds of US towns will be under water, says new study
According to a Climate Central-led study, historic carbon emissions have already locked in enough future rises in sea levels to put several hundred American...
Unemployment dips to pre-crisis low, UK
Unemployment in the United Kingdom dropped to a pre-crisis low of 5.4% in the three months ending August 2014, according to the Office for...
UK forecast to produce 2 million cars a year by 2020
A new forecast predicts that by the year 2020 the UK will break car manufacturing records.
Annual car production is forecast to increase to 2...
UK inflation fell into negative territory in September
UK inflation fell into negative territory in September.
According to the latest official figures, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, inflation in September dropped...
UK completes privatisation of the Royal Mail
The UK government completed the privatisation of the Royal Mail on Tuesday. It raised £591.1 million from selling its final stake in the business...
Labour MPs furious after fiscal charter U-turn
Labour’s new leaders initially said they would support the government’s fiscal charter. All seemed fine until MPs were told in a stormy meeting that...
New tool Sunlight expands tracking of personal data on the Web
Scientists at Columbia University’s Data Science Institute are to present ‘Sunlight’, a second-generation tool that they say brings transparency to the Web. They will...
Worldpay went public on LSE, raised £2.5billion
Worldpay went public on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) this morning, raising around £2.5billion.
The company, which provides payment services for mail order and Internet retailers,...
People travelling further but less frequently, UK
Over the past fifty years, British people have been travelling further, but less frequently, according to a new study published in the journal Significance.
Since...
Inflation turns negative in UK
Inflation, or the CPI (Consumer Prices Index), declined by 0.1% in the 12-month period to September 2015, after posting no change (0.0%) in the...