Cadbury’s first shop has been recreated using more than 600 bars of Dairy Milk to mark the company’s 200th anniversary. In 1824, John Cadbury opened the first Cadbury shop at 93 Bull Street in Birmingham, complete with plate glass windows with mahogany frames, which he was said to have cleaned every day.more

British teenagers believe their generation will have a worse life than their parents, according to a new poll. Money, jobs and climate change were named among the concerns of 1,001 teenagers aged 14 to 17 who were questioned by YouGov for children’s charity Barnardo’s.more

Despite the development of new forms of payment, money in the currently known form - banknotes and coins - still has a future and will not disappear in the foreseeable time - says Jennifer Adam, curator of the exhibition "The Future of Money", which opened on Wednesday at the Bank of England Museum in London.more

Marks & Spencer has won the right to demolish one of its flagship stores on Oxford Street after a High Court judge ruled the Government made a series of blunders while trying to block the plans.more

Britain's third-largest supermarket group Asda said on Friday it would give more than 120,000 store workers an 8.4% pay rise from July 1, following a similar move by other large British retailers as the government's national minimum wage goes up.more

It was Raye's night as she made history at the Brit Awards, winning six of the seven prizes she was nominated for - beating Blur, Adele and Harry Styles' record four wins at a single ceremony. She is also the first woman to win songwriter of the year.more

A council boss has said more than 70% of budgets are being used up by “very few people” as it emerged a number of authorities could become effectively bankrupt in the next five years.more

A new species of sea slug has been discovered in UK waters. It was caught off the south-west of England from a research ship. The creature has been named Pleurobranchaea britannica. It belongs to a group found in warmer waters, which could be migrating north due to climate change.more

The cost of first and second-class stamps is to go up again next month, after Royal Mail announced price rises of 10p a letter. The fourth increase in two years will take the price of a first-class stamp to £1.35 and the cost of the second-class service to 85p and will come into effect on 2 April.more

Police forces are failing to record the ethnicity of many people reported missing, BBC analysis suggests. In almost a fifth of all missing persons incidents in England and Wales in 2022-23, there was either no ethnic group recorded or the individual's ethnicity was marked "unknown".more

Britain almost doubled the number of visas given to foreign health and care workers last year, government data showed, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over immigration ahead of an election expected later this year.more

The first ever Barbie doll will be among 180 going on display in a new exhibition at London’s Design Museum exploring the “design phenomenon” behind the hit film.more

House prices are rising in the north but falling in the south, according to Zoopla’s latest house price index. Properties in Northern Ireland saw the biggest increase, with prices up 4.3pc year-on-year, followed by Scotland (2.2pc) and the North West (0.7pc). Prices also rose in the North East, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber and Wales.more

The cost of the programme to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda could exceed half a billion pounds, the UK's National Audit Office (NAO) said in a report published today. This is a much higher figure than the government has reported so far.more

The return to the House of Commons after nine years of George Galloway - a very left-wing, very anti-Israel and highly controversial politician - means that the toxic atmosphere in British politics against the backdrop of the Gaza war will get even worse, according to British media.more

The Body Shop is closing a further 75 shops, after the skincare and cosmetics chain announced it was going into administration earlier this month. A total of 489 jobs will be lost as a result of the closures, which will take place over the next four to six weeks. more

Taking an unauthorised family holiday is about to get more expensive, with the government announcing that fines for children in England missing school are to rise by 33%.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned police chiefs that "mob rule is replacing democratic rule" and officers must therefore protect politicians and democratic processes more robustly.more

Threats to the West are nothing new, but Vladimir Putin's speech yesterday indicates his increasing confidence that the war in Ukraine is starting to go his way, British media comment.more

The first modern British home using mud has been built as part of a project to construct more energy efficient housing.more

A couple in south London have been ridiculed for trying to recruit a live-in babysitter who would have to pay them £400 for the privilege. London renters were stunned to see a property listed at such an affordable price in Clapham South - but they soon realised there was a massive catch.more

Sadiq Khan has hailed his Night Time Enterprise Zones programme as having “dramatically” boosted high street spending in three London neighbourhoods. more

Immigration restrictions imposed on international students threaten to damage the UK economy, according to university leaders, with the number enrolling from overseas falling by a third.more

Millions of supermarket chickens show skin burns from living in their own waste, a BBC investigation has found. "Hock burn" is caused by ammonia from excrement. A sign of poorer welfare on farms, it can be seen on a third of birds in some supermarkets, data shows.more

A passenger who lost his dispute with Ryanair after being charged £165 to check in at the airport has said he does not regret taking on the airline. "I was so mad at the time, I had to try something. It ruined a couple of days of my holiday," dad-of-two Damian Lloyd, from Neath, told the BBC.more