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A Rochdale businessman has been named Business Leader of the Year in the edie sustainability leaders award, the UK’s...

The speed limit on a notorious stretch of highway has dropped to 80km/h an hour today. Motorists will now have to drive slower for about 70 kilometres between Napier and Taupō in a bid to make the road safer, after several fatal accidents. It's a move the transport agency says is crucial - but it hasn't been popular with regional leaders and many locals. Our Hawke's Bay reporter Tom Kitchin went for a drive.

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Over £80m in funding has been secured in the past 12 months by the Rochdale Development Agency (RDA), which could...

Last modified on Fri 7 May 2021 07.12 EDT On the day the Guardian was born in Manchester on 5 May 1821, the big story was taking place 4,800 miles away on an island in the south Atlantic. The first edition of the Manchester Guardian, published on 5 May 1821. Photograph: Guardian News & Media Archive/The Guardian The fact that it took weeks for news of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death on St Helena to become known shows how communication has sped up down the years. It also shows just how long the Gua...

Calorie counting gimmicks and sugar taxes wont solve obesity crisis (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) In the early days of the pandemic obesity was identified as a key factor behind hospitalisation rates and deaths from Covid.  The Prime Minister knew this personally, from his own brush with mortality last April. This is on top of the already well-established links between obesity and other life-threatening conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease...

Live updates and links to all our coverage, reactions and analyses as the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers the government's Budget.

About Paul Ormerod Paul Ormerod is an economist at Volterra Partners LLP, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCL, and author of Against the Grain: Insights of an Economic Contrarian, published by the IEA in conjunction with City A.M. All Articles