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Business

Tax rises could end dream of countryside weddings, venue owners warn

Wedding businesses face 78 per cent average business rates increase over three years alongside rising costs

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Health

George Pig gets hearing aid in new Peppa Pig episodes highlighting childhood deafness

Popular children's show partners with National Deaf Children's Society to introduce moderate hearing loss narrative airing March 9

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US

US authorities shut down 200 websites linked to India-based illegal pharmacy network

Drug enforcement agency arrests four individuals as operation targets transnational criminal organisation behind fatal overdoses

Asda
Business

Asda loses cheapest supermarket title to Tesco after price war

Leeds-based grocer falls behind rival despite chairman's £100m investment pledge to cut prices

UK net migration zero
Business

UK faces £37 billion budget deficit and tax rises if net migration falls to zero, thinktank says

Thinktank warns ageing population with no new migrants would force government into unsustainable borrowing despite productivity gains

Kurt Björklund
Business

Permira's Kurt Björklund joins wealthy UK exodus to Switzerland

Top private equity boss relocates as Labour government increases taxes on wealthy residents

Issa brothers
UK

Issa brothers' £5 million mosque wins praise from Blackburn council

Masjid E Vali, funded by EG Group founders Issa brothers, opens on former school site after five-year development

Indian top court
Asia

Indian top court pulls up WhatsApp, Meta over Indian users' data privacy

Chief justice warns platforms cannot "play with privacy rights" as court hears appeals against ₹213 crore Competition Commission penalty