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August marks the strongest performance since 2018, with a ninth consecutive month of growth and battery-electric registrations up 27.7%.

The US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand backed a UK-led package at the Five Country Ministerial in Sydney, with expanded support for the INTERPOL Global Fraud Taskforce.

Moscow says British military assets inside and outside Ukraine could be considered targets in response to Ukrainian strikes using UK-supplied weapons. No attack has been ordered.

Nearly 172,000 solar installations have been fitted across the UK since January, and plug-in solar panels became legal to buy and use in Great Britain from today.

Emergency support follows exceptionally dry weather that has damaged crops, strained water supplies and put Britain's cereal harvest on course for a poor year.

At least two carriages were left on their sides after a Southern service derailed in East Sussex; the cause has not been established.

Amber alerts are in force across much of England as another heatwave approaches.

Almost £65 million of government funding, matched by industry, will support zero-emission and automated vehicle technology and more than 1,800 jobs.

The Bank of England has kept borrowing costs unchanged, but a larger-than-expected minority of policymakers voted for an immediate increase as Middle East tensions and volatile energy prices threaten to push inflation higher.

The UK Health Security Agency estimates 2,877 heat-associated deaths in England during the May and June heat episodes, almost twice the total for the whole of summer 2025.

The Regulator of Social Housing says landlords must improve safety oversight, risk management, financial controls and the way they listen to tenants.

The Government says students will be able to combine English, mathematics and science with high-quality technical learning, employer contact and local work experience from Year 10.

Twenty-one BTV-3 cases have been confirmed in England and three in Wales since the start of July, prompting renewed advice on vaccination, animal movements and rapid reporting.

Environment Agency inspections covered 42 sites, resulting in permit suspensions or revocations, criminal investigations and the closure of illegal operations.

More than 4,500 workers and approximately 600 British companies and academic institutions are expected to contribute to the next phase of the United Kingdom's Future Combat Air System.

Regional growth and devolution policy will move closer to the centre of government under a wide-ranging reorganisation that also redistributes science, technology and digital responsibilities across Whitehall.

Mobile operators and business-messaging providers will be required to strengthen identity checks, limit high-volume traffic and block malicious numbers, links and sender names.

The regulator says it has exhausted the legal action currently available under the Online Safety Act but will continue monitoring the overseas forum's restrictions.