Julia Kollewe

Julia Kollewe Thames Water's creditors are willing to pursue their bid for the debt-laden company even if the next likely prime minister, Andy Burnham, brings it into temporary nationalisation.

LIVE – Updated at 09:21 Almost all major Asian stock markets fall, with Samsung Electronics shares sliding for a second day.

LIVE – Updated at 11:32 Stock markets slide and Brent crude spikes over 6% to a daily high of $79.26.

Julia Kollewe Vistry Group , one of Britain's biggest housebuilders, has warned it will make a loss in the first half of the year, after it resorted to heavy discounting to attract buyers for unsold homes .

Read this exciting story from The Guardian July 09, 2026 issue. Vistry Group, one of Britain’s biggest housebuilders, says it will make a loss in the first half of the year after resorting to heavy discounting to attract buyers for unsold homes.

LIVE – Updated at 15:16 Brent crude spikes to a daily high of $79.26, gas prices rise, stock markets slide and government bond yields surge on inflation and rate hike fears.

LIVE – Updated at 09:51 Brent crude dips slightly below $78 a barrel; most Asian stock markets bounce back.

Julia Kollewe “I'm now at a point where I'm going to buy even more clothes,” says Hayley Grice, 50, from Shropshire, who has dropped seven

As they slim down, UK and US users of GLP-1 jabs and pills are changing their spending habits – and their wardrobes

Julia Kollewe “I'm now at a point where I'm going to buy even more clothes,” says Hayley Grice, 50, from Shropshire, who has dropped seven