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More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago

Most feel financially secure but think UK’s economy is worsening, as chancellor plans welfare cuts in spring statement

Letters: David Murray and Bernie Evans on the alternatives open to the chancellor to tackle Britain’s crumbling finances. Plus a letter from Elizabeth Atkinson

What can Indian and Pakistani press archives, government records and memoirs tell us about the Middle East of the 1920s and ’30s, when Britain’s empire was in its twilight years? What did the dissolution of the Ottoman empire, the movement for Egyptian independence, or the crisis in British Mandate Palestine…

An Iraqi man has managed to avoid being deported from the UK after claiming a people smuggler tossed his ID and forced him to get rid of his phone while on his way to Britain.

Britain's Labour government will deliver a highly anticipated fiscal update on Wednesday, with finance minister Rachel Reeves expected to detail billions of pounds of spending cuts to address the country's struggling economy.

Rhyl – once dubbed ‘Blackpool after a neutron bomb’ – hopes to improve its reputation

Reports suggest cuts in Great Britain would include removing ‘duplication’ of teams, as well job losses at HS2

For years, nature has been blamed as a blocker of economic growth. After some ministerial bluster about not letting newts and bats get in the way of growth ambitions, the UK government released more details of its plans to get Britain building again.