Yorkshire Post

The Chancellor is set to hand extra funding to Yorkshire mayors as part of a financial devolution package in the 2026 Budget.

The UK’s longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel may also be the spookiest, according the charity that maintains it.

The £253m scheme, that pays farmers in England for “public goods” such as insecticide-free farming, wildflower strips and managing ponds and hedgerows, closed within six hours.

The average household could be £770 a year worse off by the end of the decade than they were at the start of this parliament due to soaring fuel costs, a report has warned, highlighting the scale of the challenge facing the Chancellor at the dispatch box.