• Getting ready to put your house on the market? You need to know about the

    January is one of the busiest months of the year for property sales, according to Rightmove - and with it currently being a buyer's market, competition is heating up.  So, if you are looking to sell your home, when is the best time to make your listing live? And how can you make it stand

  • New Sky and Warner Bros Discovery deal means free access to new streaming service for customers

    Audiences in the UK and Ireland will be able to continue viewing popular American shows after Sky extended and expanded its deal with Warner Bros. Discovery bringing HBO programming to screens outside the US. Access to the new Warner Bros . Discovery streaming service, Max, will become a free part of Sky in 2026 when

  • Eco-tycoon Vince in fresh effort to spark Observer sale talks

    The entrepreneur Dale Vince has made a fresh approach to the owner of The Guardian in a bid to persuade it to open talks with him about The Observer, days after its sale was agreed to a digital start-up. Sky News has seen an email sent at the weekend by Mr Vince to Ole Jacob

  • North of England will benefit from closer ties to Saudi, says Starmer – as he visits Middle East

    The north of England will directly benefit from closer trade ties with Saudi Arabia, the prime minister said as he visited the country. Sir Keir Starmer travelled to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in a bid to build closer economic ties with the two Gulf states. The trip came amid turmoil in the

  • Government calls on

    The government has called on "disruptors, innovators and creative thinkers" to help make the civil service more productive. Senior minister Pat McFadden said he wants Whitehall to have more of a "start-up" mentality as he cited Airbnb, Whatsapp and Spotify as examples of the mindset the civil service should take on to be more productive

  • Property developers could bypass planning committees in bid to

    Property developers will be able to bypass planning committees under new government plans to "overhaul" the process. Applications "that comply with local development plans" will not have to get approval from local council planning committees in England under the new plan, Housing Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has announced. This will "tackle chronic

  • Harland & Wolff close to government-backed rescue deal with Navantia

    Harland & Wolff (H&W), the shipyard-owner which built the Titanic, is closing on a government-backed rescue deal with a Spanish shipping industry group. Sky News can reveal that Navantia has won approval from Downing Street to acquire H&W's four UK shipyards in a transaction which could be formally agreed as early as next week. If

  • Hiring slumps to

    Demand for new staff among businesses slumped to levels seen in 2020 in the wake of last month's budget, according to a survey of major recruitment consultants. A monthly report by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) trade body and accountants KPMG suggested that the tax raid on firms announced by chancellor Rachel Reeves on

  • Manufacturers

    The former minister who was asked by the last chancellor to help turbocharge inward investment into the UK is being lined up as the next chairman of Britain's most influential manufacturing industry trade body. Sky News has learnt that Lord Harrington, who also served in government as Boris Johnson's minister for refugees after Russia's invasion

  • Harland & Wolff close to government-backed rescue deal with Navantia

    Harland & Wolff (H&W), the shipyard-owner which built the Titanic, is closing on a government-backed rescue deal with a Spanish shipping industry group. Sky News can reveal that Navantia has won approval from Downing Street to acquire H&W's four UK shipyards in a transaction which could be formally agreed as early as next week. If