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Mr Griffith, who was promoted to the top financial post less than two months ago, said he would seek to emulate Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor Nigel Lawson by cutting a tax in every Budget.

Earls Colne restaurant Riverside Spice wins Editor’s Choice Restaurant 2026 at the Curry Life Awards, recognising its Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine.

Earls Colne restaurant Riverside Spice wins Editor’s Choice Restaurant 2026 at the Curry Life Awards, recognising its Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine.

An Indian man went on trial behind closed doors in Paris on Monday, accused of running a neo-Nazi child exploitation ring in which young girls were allegedly coerced into performing sexual acts online

Horse racing returns to Chelmsford City Racecourse on November 2 under ARC, after months of uncertainty, pending BHA licensing, with Sky Sports Racing coverage.

Horse racing returns to Chelmsford City Racecourse on November 2 under ARC, after months of uncertainty, pending BHA licensing, with Sky Sports Racing coverage.

The euro has tumbled to a 17-month low as a mounting budget crisis in France stirs fears of a new debt crisis in the single currency zone.

Zion Teasley, 25, pleaded guilty to the 2023 murder of Lauren Heike, 29, who was fatally stabbed 15 times on a hiking trail in Phoenix.

He announced he had called off his sixth wedding after splitting from his fiancée Natasha, who is 23 years his junior.

Star Wars actor John Boyega was one of the last people to see ten-year-old Damilola Taylor alive before he was fatally stabbed in Peckham, south-east London, in November 2000.

Diagnoses of the bug are at their highest level since October 2025 and rising levels of Britons are being admitted for care. Figures show 950 admissions this August, which jumped to 4,939 in September.

Poppy Hamilton, from Weymouth, Dorset, moved her daughter Nancy into her bed at 4am on August 16 last year as the baby struggled to sleep during a heatwave.

Once voted her nation's most beautiful woman, Tatjana Genrich (33), has announced a shocking career change as she changes high heels for gloves.

Hairy Biker Si King's new girlfriend is a divorced mother of one who at 62 is three years older than the TV star. Caroline Witcomb is known to friends as 'Milly' and is from Staffordshire.

The whistleblower claimed his former employer Howard Lutnick - a key aide of Donald Trump - failed to disclose a business relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Mrs Braverman, who was home secretary in the previous Tory government before defecting to Reform UK, has suggested that British Asians like herself can't be English.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Huawei and Qualcomm on Monday announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement covering 5G, artificial intelligence, compute, and networking technologies, along with Qualcomm's purchase of certain Huawei U.S. patents in those same fields. The deal is the first patent licensing agreement between the two companies to cover 5G technologies, according to Reuters. Huawei said the agreement is expected to bring the cumulative value of its patent licensing deals above $6.9 billion upon closing. The agreement includes cross licenses to both companies' patent portfolios and is structured around fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, principles, the company said. The transaction will close following receipt of the necessary regulatory approvals. [...] The company noted that its intellectual property licensing unit has been profitable since 2021. Huawei made its first licensing payment to Qualcomm in 2001 and received its first licensing income, from Motorola, in 2011, according to Reuters. American export controls that took effect in 2019 have curtailed Huawei's access to cutting-edge chips and essential software, according to Reuters. The constraints pushed Huawei to increase its research and development spending in recent years.

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The Register’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE’s and NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.