Charlie Clarke, from Warwickshire, shouted out his impressions when he came across a necklace from Tudor times while searching with a metal detector. His success is made all the greater by the fact that this is his new hobby - he has been doing it for several months.more

The self-assessment season may be over but after seven years of filing tax returns I have yet again been stung by an extra HMRC charge – payments on account.more

Even affordable London areas are now beyond the reach of local buyers on average salaries.more

Unemployment in the UK could be three times higher than shown by official government figures, according to a report exposing a stark north-south divide in the number of people out of work because of long-term sickness.more

Shoppers have been switching away from branded sauces, cereals and drinks, and opting for supermarkets' own-brand equivalents to save money at the till, research suggests.more

A McDonald's restaurant in the Welsh town of Wrexham has taken some rather unusual measures to help officers neutralise groups of extremely troublesome young people. In order to discourage teenagers from congregating and sitting in the premises from 5pm onwards, only classical music will be played in the restaurant, plus Wi-Fi access will be restricted.more

Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, and train drivers walked out over pay in the largest coordinated strike action for a decade on Wednesday, with unions threatening more disruption as the government digs its heels in over pay demands.more

Which? study reveals huge disparity in the amount of caffeine delivered by high street coffee chains.more

A major shake up at Tesco stores will see all food counters and hot delis close. Many have shut already as bosses make ‘difficult decisions’ for the business. more

The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advanced economies, including Russia, as the cost of living continues to hit households, the International Monetary Fund has said.more

British fighters are extremely complex and it takes months to learn how to fly them. Given this, we believe that it is not practical to send these jets to Ukraine, said a spokesman for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.more

Archaeologists have managed to identify the "unknown wreck of Eastbourne", which was discovered in 2019 off the coast of Great Britain. According to the Historical England organization, it is a 17th-century Dutch warship Klein Hollandia.more

Three years after leaving the European Union, the UK is not convinced that Brexit is delivering the promised results, or even that it has been completed, although the former partly stems from the latter. But there is also no appetite, at least among politicians, to return to a divisive issue.more

London property owners are demanding increasingly higher rents, with the average in the central parts of the capital exceeding £3,000. per month, according to the real estate portal Rightmove. He added that last year saw the second highest increase in rents in history.more

Grocery price inflation has hit a record 16.7% to add a potential £788 to annual shopping bills, figures have shown. The “staggering” 2.3 percentage point jump in the four weeks to January 22 has exceeded the previous high recorded by analysts Kantar in October and is the highest figure since their recmore

Firefighters have renewed a safety warning about “incredibly concerning” fires involving e-bikes after one went up in flames at a high-rise block of flats in south-east London.more

What is billed as the UK's first multi-charity store has opened to shoppers. Charity Super.Mkt at Brent Cross Shopping Centre sells donated clothing supplied by 10 UK charities, including Barnardo's and Cancer Research.more

Brexit complicated Polish-British relations, but the war in Ukraine took them to a whole new level, and as long as security issues remain a priority, they will remain strong, said Prof. Aleks Szczerbiak, political scientist at the University of Sussex.more

A highly toxic chemical compound sold illegally in diet pills is to be reclassified as a poison, a government minister has said. more

British firefighters will carry out the first nationwide strike in 20 years, the FBU union has announced. Meanwhile, the teachers' union NEU has said last-ditch talks with the government have failed and they will go on strike tomorrow.more

Sportswear chain JD Sports has said stored data relating to 10 million customers might be at risk after it was hit by a cyber-attack. more

Nearly half of all young people in the UK - in the 16-25 age group - are worried that they will never earn enough to support their family, according to a report published yesterday by the Prince's Trust charity.more

People cut back on video streaming services in their droves last year as the cost of living rose sharply. more

Fewer than 7.6 per cent of English and Welsh residents who were born in Poland use a British passport; one of the lowest rates among those born outside the UK, according to census data.more

Britain's armed forces, particularly the ground forces, would not be able to defend the country effectively after decades of cuts, military sources quoted by Sky News said. The opinion that ground troops are no longer a top-class fighting force was also expressed by a US general.more