Rachel Reeves will insist she has "the right economic plan for our country" and that "working people are better off" thanks to Labour when she delivers her spring forecast to the Commons today.

Nearly 500 jobs are expected to be lost when craft beer giant BrewDog is taken over by an American cannabis firm.

Some wars start slowly while others spring to life at speed. This one is racing, transforming nations, politics and loyalties at a spectacular rate.

The expansion of Donald Trump's war against Iran to a British base in Cyprus is a nightmare for the UK, which lacks adequate air defences and only has a limited capacity to fight back.

Already there are parts of Iran's densely populated capital city Tehran that look like a pummelled war zone.

There is nowhere else on the planet with quite as concentrated a supply of quite so much energy as the Arabian Gulf.