FTSE steady after fresh Trump tariff chaos weighs on stocks and pushes gold higher

[ad_1] By ANGHARAD CARRICK, BUSINESS NEWS EDITOR Updated: 05:12 EST, 23 February 2026 The FTSE’s record run was briefly interrupted after Donald Trump imposed a new 15 per cent tariff over the weekend, deepening global trade uncertainty. The FTSE 100 opened 0.2 per cent lower before regaining some ground after a record run this year, […]

Tables turned on the Pro-Palestine ‘Jew hunters’: Activists planning to go door-to-door asking locals to boycott Israeli products are foiled by counter-protesters making them hide in pub

[ad_1] Activists accused of engaging in a ‘Jew hunt’ as they planned to go door-to-door asking locals to boycott Israeli products were stopped after counter-protesters forced them to hide in a pub.  Members the Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone (AFZ) campaign had planned a door-knock encouraging people to boycott Israeli businesses amid the country’s ongoing war with Hamas in […]

MPs will threaten to escalate their scrutiny of the Royal Family amid Andrew saga

[ad_1] Westminster is set to push for greater scrutiny of the Royal Family. MPs will return to Parliament today following a week-long recess with a clamour for answers over the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal. The former prince is under investigation for allegedly leaking confidential information to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and other wealthy contacts while serving as […]

Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer says she was ‘failed’ by the CPS and Scotland Yard when it declined to bring a case against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 10 years ago

[ad_1] The Crown Prosecution Service ‘failed’ when it declined to bring a case against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 10 years ago despite being given compelling evidence, the lawyer for his accuser has claimed. David Boies, who represented Virginia Giuffre, said that the decision by the CPS and the Metropolitan Police in 2016 was ‘clearly erroneous’. Mr Boies […]