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Amazon is expanding its presence on the High Street by opening its first non-food store in the UK. The shop, in the Bluewater shopping mall near Dartford, will sell around 2,000 of its most popular and best-rated products. It's called Amazon 4-star because every item has been given more than four stars by customers. However, one retail expert said the shop could be "muddled and uninspiring". This will be the first Amazon 4-star store outside the US, where there are already more t...

A mansion in Sussex that was once the most expensive private house in Britain has been left derelict for over three decades – and the property could even be haunted If you’ve ever driven over the East Sussex border, you may have seen a glimpse of an incredible sprawling mansion property known as Hamilton Place. Kent Live reports the home is hidden away just off an unassuming junction on the A22 south of Uckfield in East Sussex, and although the property was once the most expensiv...

Annual house price growth of 10% or more has been recorded for each of the past five months, according to data from Nationwide. The UK's largest building society said that prices in September were up 10% compared with a year earlier, a slight slowdown from 11% in August. The double-digit rise was driven by recent activity in Wales and Northern Ireland, the lender said, with London still seeing the slowest growth. The typical home now costs £248,742. Rapidly rising house price...

British soldiers will start driving tankers soon to replenish empty pumps as drivers queued again for fuel after days of shortages, despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying the situation was improving. Britain has been gripped by a rush of panic buying for almost a week that has left pumps dry across major cities after oil companies warned they did not have enough tanker drivers to move gasoline and diesel from refineries to filling stations. Business minister Kwasi Kwarteng said 150 so...

ENVIRONMENTAL health authorities have issued an urgent warning to those stockpiling fuel as more scenes of chaos from the weekend emerge. Over the weekend, garages in West Berkshire saw drivers pile up on the roads to buy petrol and diesel over fears they would run out of fuel. The problem ignited people to panic buy with one man pictured filling up three jerry cans in order to have fuel in reserve. As a result of panic buying, petrol station forecourts were forced to close after running out of...

LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Tech start-ups in London raised nearly as much in the first six months of 2021 as they did in the whole of last year, helping the British capital to retain its joint status with New York as the top location outside of Silicon Valley, new data shows. According to rankings compiled by Startup Genome, London scored highly for funding, talent and connections, despite the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit. It maintained its second position tied with...

The UK Office for Investment (OfI) and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company, today signed an agreement at Downing Street to significantly expand the UAE-UK Sovereign Investment Partnership (UAE-UK SIP), a framework for investment announced in March 2021. Over the next five years, the UAE-UK SIP will drive a significant increase in investment across a further three sectors: technology, infrastructure, and energy transition, as well as build on the existing programme of life sciences i...

We recently asked what your dream home would look like, where it would be, and how many rooms it would have – and thousands of you answered! The results of our survey are now in, and they show that we’re a pretty practical nation when it comes to the type of property we dream of living in. Forget the fanciful notions of walk-in wardrobes, bespoke at-home gyms or luxurious swimming pools, the convenience of a utility room and a home office are far more important to most people. ...