The Festival meeting at Cheltenham is looming next month and many valuable trials for those races are scheduled over the next two weeks 1.57pm GMT The equine flu outbreak in Australia in 2007 was much more serious than this latest incident threatens to be. Here’s our racing correspondent Greg Wood Read more
UK central bank has warned that Britain faces weakest growth since the financial crisis, as it leaves borrowing costs unchangedLatest: No-deal raises risk of “negative quarters” of growthCarney: No sympathy with Donald Tusk’s ‘hell’ commentMark Carney is holding a press conference nowGloomy Bank of England leaves rates on hold2019 growth Read more
Company reports 321 million active monthly users in fourth quarter, a drop of 5 millionTwitter’s share price fell more than 8% in early Wall Street trading as record fourth quarter revenues and the milestone of achieving its first full year of profitability failed to allay investor concerns over a drop Read more
The author was commissioned to write about British food for an overseas audience in 1946, but piece was spiked amid anxiety about postwar austerityMore than 70 years after the event, the British Council has apologised to George Orwell for commissioning and then rejecting an essay about British food.The author of Read more
Follow for live updates from Westminster Via: Brexit news – live: New EU talks announced amid Labour backlash over failure to demand fresh referendum
‘Weak’ government response attacked after homicides rise for fourth consecutive year Via: Police budget cuts blamed as fatal stabbings hit highest number on record in England and Wales
Prime minister due to meet European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker again before the end of the month Via: Brexit talks to restart after Theresa May visits Brussels in last-ditch bid to break deadlock
Like torturously bored shop assistants, MPs are trying to ‘look busy’ but failing spectacularly Via: The House of Commons should be sitting into the middle of the night – so why are MPs knocking off at 3pm?
Up to eight people have been injured after a gas explosion destroyed a flat in West Yorkshire. The explosion was heard in the Hick Lane area of the town of Batley between 6.30pm and 7pm today. Via: At least three people injured after ‘huge gas explosion’ destroys flat in West Read more
The Prime Minister could delay the final Brexit vote until the end of February, after trying to convince Brussels to change the ‘backstop plan’ – but the Bloc is not likely to budge. Via: May to insist UK is not 'trapped' by Irish backstop as Corbyn reveals his five key Read more