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Focus on capital spending in northern cities and Midlands is recognition Labour needs better economic story for voters

The package for mayoral authorities is expected to include funding to extend the metros in Tyne and Wear, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.

Announcing a £15.6billion investment package, Rachel Reeves argued that Britain ‘cannot rely on a handful of places forging ahead of the rest of the country’

Ahead of next week’s statement, the chancellor is to announcing transport investments outside London

The US President has decided to ‘provide different treatment’ to the UK after a deal that was struck between Washington and London last month.

The Chicago hotel scores an impressive 99.5 out of 100 in a new ranking, putting it on par with top properties in London, Paris and Bangkok

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) Tuesday closed up +0.02 (+0.12%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) closed up +2.80 (+0.59%). Sugar prices on Tuesday recovered from early losses and posted modest gains. Short covering emerged in sugar futures Tuesday to lift prices higher after WTI...

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN25 ) Tuesday closed up +301 (+3.18%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN25 ) closed up +151 (+2.39%). Cocoa prices settled sharply higher on Tuesday due to the slowing pace of Ivory Coast cocoa exports, signaling tighter future cocoa supplies. Monday's government data showed that...

Italian food has been a hit in London since the Victorian era. Josh Barrie names 10 of his favourites

The FTSE 100 index closed up 12.76 points, 0.2%, at 8,787.02.

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