Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney buy half Wrexham Lager
PA Media The Wrexham AFC owners have been praised for their work promoting the city Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have grown their Wrexham empire by adding a…
Stamp duty tax on second homes to rise
Getty Images The rate of stamp duty paid by people buying a second home is to rise, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced in the Budget. Stamp duty is a tax…
Vaping tax and tobacco duty rises set out in Rachel Reeves’ Budget
The cost of vaping and smoking will increase following tax rises announced in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget. A new tax on vapes of £2.20 per 10ml of e-cigarette liquid will…
Rachel Reeves unveils historic £40bn tax rises in first Budget
EPA Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a massive £40bn package of tax increases to fund the NHS and public services in Labour’s first Budget for 14 years. But she insisted…
Stamp duty: What is it, how much is it and how is it changing?
At the moment, buyers of homes worth less than £250,000 don’t pay stamp duty. This was doubled from £125,000 under Liz Truss’s mini-Budget in September 2022. The threshold is £425,000…
HS2 Euston link funding announced in Budget
Getty Images HS2 construction at Euston was paused after funding the link was put in doubt The government is “committing the funding required” to begin tunnelling work to bring HS2…
What does non-dom mean and how are the rules changing?
Before July’s general election, Labour pledged to toughen existing Tory plans to abolish non-dom tax status. In March 2024, the-then Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt had announced that the non-dom tax…
Budget unveils big taxes, big borrowing and big spending plans
I said this morning this Budget would be big. And big is exactly what it is. We got a sense of that very early on from the chancellor, when she…
Saoirse Ronan says reaction to Graham Norton viral women safety clip is ‘wild’
BBC Saoirse Ronan has been praised for raising awareness of thoughts most women have about their safety Saoirse Ronan has said the reaction to a viral clip of her talking…
First Clade 1b mpox detected in UK
A single case of mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – linked to the outbreak in parts of Africa has been detected in the UK. It is part of the…