Ed Miliband has also watered down fines issued to boilermakers that missed a heat pump sale. Manufacturers had called this a "boiler tax" and threatened to pass increased costs onto consumers.

"I really, really, really feel for the young people at the moment because they don't have the opportunities, through inflation," said Mr Rowe, former chairman of the Sunderland Private Landlords ...

At least 19 people in Minnesota have been sickened by E. coli O157:H7 tied to a national recall of more than 167,000 pounds of potentially tainted ground beef, federal health officials said.

A brawl erupted between a Thai transwoman and a foreign man at a hotel in Phuket after the foreigner refused to pay upon discovering her gender. A source, who wishes to remain anonymous, reported the ...