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Day: July 11, 2025
Depressing data comes as Rachel Reeves and her team were daring to hope business confidence was recovering
May’s unexpected 0.1% decline in GDP will make depressing reading for Rachel Reeves before a tough budget in the autumn.
Stronger-than-expected growth would have helped to alleviate the squeeze on the public finances – but there is nothing in this latest data pointing to an upturn.
Viktor Hovland carded one of the few clean cards in the first round of the Scottish Open, but he doesn’t want anyone to think The Renaissance is easy.
Donald Trump said overnight that group of US trading partners, including the bloc, would get a letter ‘today or tomorrow’
The EU and financial markets are on nervous standby to see if Donald Trump will carry through with his latest threat to hike import duties to 15% or 20%.
If he does it would signal a breach of good faith in negotiations which intensified in the past 10 days and almost certainly lead to calls for counter tariffs.
Trade ministers meet in Brussels on Monday and are expected to agree to extend its current 90 day pause on retaliation if a deal is announced today or over the weekend.
It has threatened 25% tariff on more than €20bn worth of US imports but paused them to create space for negotiations.
On Thursday night Trump ramped up his assault on Canada declaring he would impose a 35% tariff on imports next month and planned to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most other trading partners adding the EU and Canada could receive tariff letters by Friday.
“Not everybody has to get a letter. You know that. We’re just setting our tariffs,” Trump told NBC News.
“We’re just going to say all of the remaining countries are going to pay, whether it’s 20% or 15%. We’ll work that out now.”
The declaration will have exasperated EU leaders who were already resigned to taking a 10% tariff as the price of doing trade with Trump, an import duty rate five times the average rate that applied before he was inaugurated in January.
EU diplomats said an agreement in principle is effectively on Trump’s desk waiting to be approved since Wednesday, his original self-imposed deadline for a deal.
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James Carter Cathcart’s ex-wife, Jeanne Gari, revealed his cause of death.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police later walked back the comment.
West Midlands police say child was reported missing in water in Sutton Park on Thursday evening
The body of a teenage boy has been recovered from a lake after a large search operation.
West Midlands police said the teenager was reported missing in the water at Powell’s Pool in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, shortly after 6pm on Thursday.
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A mother decided to voluntarily return to Honduras fearing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. CNN’s Polo Sandoval reports.
Airport is seeking increase to expand passenger capacity and fund new lounges, shops and restaurants
Heathrow is seeking to raise the landing fees it charges airlines by 17% as part of a plan to invest £10bn into Europe’s busiest airport, in a move airlines say will push up ticket prices for travellers.
The airport operator has made a submission to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to increase the fees, saying the rise would fund a plan to increase annual passenger capacity to 92 million and expand terminal space for new lounges, shops and restaurants.