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Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has today introduced a new interactive map of broadband connectivity across UK Local Authorities (LAs), which is said to “reveal significant disparities in digital infrastructure” and aims to support LAs by helping to inform their local digital strategies. The maps are also freely available to the public (recent data only)….
A new broadband mapping toolkit covering connectivity across UK Local Authorities (LAs) reveals significant disparities in digital infrastructure, with key challenges hindering progress in improving digital access and inclusion. While gigabit broadband rollout is advancing through Project Gigabit and market-led initiatives, many areas remain underserved, and mobile coverage gaps persist. Oliver Johnson, CEO at Point…
Rachel Reeves’s spring statement must offer “a bit of a reset”, George Osborne, a former chancellor, has warned. “The government didn’t get off to the best of starts but they had a lot of goodwill,” he told Bloomberg TV at the HSBC Global Investment Summit in Hong Kong. “They inherited a lot of problems but…
Mar 26, 2025 02:44 PM IST BRITAIN-ROYALS/HARRY (PIX):UK’s Prince Harry ‘in shock’ after quitting his African Aids charity LONDON, – Britain’s Prince Harry said he was “in shock” after quitting as a patron of Sentebale, a British charity he set up to help young people with HIV and Aids in Lesotho and Botswana, following a…
Keir Starmer: OK, everyone. I want you to get an early night. It’s Rachel’s big day tomorrow and we all need to be ready to support her. Angela Rayner: So no going out to a Sabrina Carpenter concert tonight.💊💊🍸🍸 Rachel Reeves: It definitely wasn’t a freebie. Rayner: Matt Pennycook seems to think it was. Reeves:…
Foreign vloggers frequently visit India to explore and share their experiences with a global audience. UK content creator Edd Owen is among them who is presently touring the nation. In his recent video, he travelled by Delhi Metro and gave an “honest review” of his experience. He claimed that foreign tourists often get scammed by…
Chancellor will trim spending plans to meet ‘iron clad’ rulespublished at 09:05 Greenwich Mean Time 09:05 GMT Dharshini DavidDeputy economics editor The chancellor has been backed into a corner by her own rules – and economic circumstances. Those rules, designed to maintain credibility and keep a lid on government borrowing costs – say that in…
Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves is set to detail billions of pounds of spending cuts in her Spring Statement on Wednesday to address the country’s ailing public finances.The spending update comes as the Labour government, elected in July after a landslide election win, faces sluggish economic growth and rising borrowing costs.In a glimmer of good…
Britain’s Labour government will come under intense scrutiny on Wednesday, as Finance Minister Rachel Reeves prepares to update lawmakers on her spending and taxation plans and the nation’s economic outlook amid unsettling times for the U.K. Reeves is expected to announce billions of pounds worth of spending cuts as a way to close a budget…
Two men stand on a cherry picker to guide the crane lowering the final — and thinnest — multi-storey layer on top of the Cheesegrater building, while people in hi-viz and hard hats watch from below. Standing at 5.4 metres — about one 40th the size of the real thing — it took 12 model…