The new campaign tips off on Friday. Our team of writers look at the rookies to watch, the surprise teams and who will rule the roost at the end of the year ...

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news ...

Law says conviction of two men for spying raises serious concerns over how they accessed sensitive information ...

For nearly four decades, the artist Kermit Oswald lived with some of the most intimate works Haring ever made. Now the pieces are going up for auction ...

Oxfordshire’s Ray Valley Solar already generates clean energy for 7,000 homes, and is now crowdfunding storage to marry daylight with evening demand ...

Starmer said he was 'not going to walk away and plunge country into chaos', after Labour suffered heavy early losses on Friday in local elections ...

Two foreigners among the dead, say authorities, after early morning eruption spews ash miles into air ...

The Women’s prize-shortlisted author on being obsessed with Judy Blume, hating Jane Austen at first, and the joys of Tove Jansson ...

The US said it carried out strikes on Iranian military targets after an attack on three American destroyers in the strait of Hormuz ...

Second block to focus on information known on gunmen before terror attack and action taken, royal commission says ...

Leader defiant in face of calls from some of his MPs to quit but admits ‘results are tough, and there’s no sugarcoating it’ ...

Reform UK gain councillors in early results; Scottish and Welsh parliament results are due from midday ...