Fuel retailers have been urged to pass on falling wholesale costs as the latest rise in forecourt prices saw the bill for filling up a typical family car with petrol top £90.

At the bottom of a retired quarry in the Scottish county of Midlothian, the UK's largest rocket engine testing facility has today opened for business.

Fears are growing for a Russian journalist who is said to be missing after interrupting the main news programme on the country's most popular TV channel, holding a sign which told viewers: "They are lying to you."

Electric car maker Tesla has put up its prices in the US and China for the second time in less than a week - after boss Elon Musk complained of rising costs.

The widow of police officer Andrew Harper, who was killed in the line of duty, says she is ready to "find happiness again" as her campaign for a change in law nears its conclusion.

A 35-hour curfew is to be imposed in Kyiv after several tower blocks were attacked by Russian forces based outside the city, Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said.

The British-Iranian national being held in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has had her British passport returned, her MP in the UK Tulip Siddiq has said.

A 35-hour curfew is to be imposed in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital's mayor, Vitali Klitschko has said.

The UK government has placed an export ban on luxury goods to Russia and hiked up import tariffs from the country on iconic products such as vodka.

Britain's pay squeeze deepened at the start of the year as wages fell in real terms at the sharpest rate for more than seven years, official figures show.