Eat up and get out: why dawdling diners are killing UK restaurants
Richard Alvin argues the fastest way to save UK restaurants costs nothing: eat up and go. Dwell times, not menus, now decide who keeps the lights on.
August 2026
Help to Buy returns £1.74bn as ministers review scheme revival
Help to Buy has returned £1.74bn to the exchequer, Homes England's annual report shows, as housing minister Matthew Pennycook reviews reviving the scheme.
Fly-tipping gangs forced sale of family farmland, says Earl Spencer
Fly-tipping by organised criminal networks forced the sale of the Spencer family's 310-acre Northamptonshire farmland, Earl Spencer writes in the Daily Mail.