Esyllt Carr

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Faisal Islam |Tom Espiner |Esyllt Carr

UK could lower US car tariffs in push for trade dealFaisal Islam & Tom Espiner & Esyllt CarrEconomics editor & Business reporters, BBC NewsBBCChancellor Rachel Reeves says trade has to be free and fairChancellor Rachel Reeves has signalled the UK could lower tariffs on US car imports as she tries to broker a trade deal with the Trump administration. Reeves said she wants "to see tariff and non-tariff barriers reduced between the UK and the US".

1 month ago | bbc.com | Charlotte Edwards |Esyllt Carr

Eight regulators including Natural England and the Environment Agency will meet the chancellor on Monday. "Today we are taking further action to free businesses from the shackles of regulation," Reeves said.

2 months ago | bbc.com | Esyllt Carr

Days after losing Terry, his widow Janet received a letter making an offer of compensation – far below the amount the couple had claimed. She describes the offer as a "slap in the face," and says it's prompted her to share their story publicly for the first time. Terry used redundancy money to take over the Hockley Post Office in Stockport in 2005. But less than two years later he was suspended for alleged shortfalls.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Esyllt Carr |Emma Simpson

A widow whose husband was caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal is calling for compensation payments for victims to be speeded up after she received her husband's offer of redress days after he passed away. Terry Walters, who was 77, died last month after years of ill health. He was one of the former sub-postmasters who took the Post Office to court in the landmark case led by Sir Alan Bates, which helped expose the scandal.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Zoe Conway |Esyllt Carr

Homeowners who say their houses are being destroyed by unsuitable insulation are missing out on measures to fix it as the work was carried out too long ago. The government has found a "serious systemic" issue in homes fitted with insulation under two of its own schemes since 2022 – and ordered installers to put it right. But that won't include 93-year-old Margaret Chappell whose work was done in 2021 and now her house is consumed by damp, black mould and crumbling plaster.