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The UN’s main technology agency, the International Telecommunication Union [ITU] has this week elected its first woman secretary-general in Doreen Bogdan-Martin.

The European Union has this week agreed to impose a windfall tax on energy firms’ surplus profits and excess revenues made from higher electricity bills, akin to the UK’s Energy Profits Levy.

Bedfordshire-based family-owned bus operator Grant Palmer Ltd is using new ticket machine technology to avoid incidents where its buses strike low bridges, thereby improving safety for road users, rail users and bus passengers.

UK prime minister Liz Truss has agreed to convene with other European leaders on Thursday (October 6) at the first meeting of a new “club of nations” in Prague, Czechia.

The pound sterling returned to $1.12 against the US dollar on Friday morning, equalling levels prior to the announcement of the mini-Budget one week ago.

Tory MP and chair of the Net-Zero Review, Chris Skidmore, has launched a call for evidence to enable people across the UK to share their perspective on how the country can reduce carbon emissions in a way that will benefit the economy.

Nadhim Zahawi, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and intergovernmental relations minister, has expressed his delight at the outcome of the first ever Islands Forum, which was recently held in Orkney.

Speaking in a series of interviews with BBC radio stations, prime minister Liz Truss has defended the tax cuts outlined in Friday’s mini-Budget.

Financial secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffith, has defended the government’s tax-cutting measures outlined in the mini-Budget, after they were subjected to fierce criticism this week.

The Bank of England has announced plans to start buying government bonds at an “urgent” pace, in order to ease market reaction following the fallout of Friday’s mini-Budget.

With chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng hitting the headlines with his not-so-mini mini-budget, we look back at an article he wrote for one of our publications just over eighteen months ago. What clues, if any, can we unearth about the sort of chancellor he is likely to be?

The International Monetary Fund [IMF] has issued a statement urging the UK government to reconsider implementing large-scale tax cuts.

Speaking at the Labour Party Conference this week, party leader Sir Keir Starmer set out plans to create a publicly owned green energy provider in his first year in power, if elected to government.

Specialist education provider Norland College has teamed up with the Transforming Autism Project [TAP] to launch a new early autism family support programme, known as First Steps.