A heatwave has gripped large parts of India with roads and markets emptying during afternoons and some farmers switching to ...

Close Brothers is speeding up cost cutting to help narrow losses after setting aside another £30 million to cover mounting costs of the motor finance scandal. The banking group confirmed its total ...

Former health secretary Wes Streeting has set out plans for a wealth tax that would see capital gains tax equalised with income tax. Mr Streeting, who had made clear he intends to stand in any ...

The building society made a pre-tax profit of £1.49 billion for the year to the end of March, down from the £2.3 billion it made last year.

BT has revealed aims to cut costs by a further £700 million over the next four years as it reported flat full-year earnings and falling revenues. The telecoms giant said it was upping its cost saving ...

The oldest bridge in Paris has begun to vanish as the artist JR – who is known as the “French Banksy” – began inflating a ...

With just days to go until the return of the Isle of Wight Scarecrow Festival, the County Press has been given a first look at some of this ...

An Isle of Wight school is making the most of the great outdoors with a new donation helping children embrace learning in all weathers.

Shanklin on the Isle of Wight has been ranked as the sunniest place to live in the UK, according to a new analysis ...

The Isle of Wight Council is monitoring a cliff collapse in Sandown which has seen parts of the cliff reinforcement plummet to the ground below. The collapse has happened on the cliff front beneath ...