The confirmation the cap will be scrapped was immediately welcomed by organisations which have long campaigned for it to go.

Welcome to The Northern Echo's live blog on the Autumn Budget 2025. Rachel Reeves is set to deliver Labour's latest budget which is expected to see changes to pensions, alcohol duty and fuel duty.

The policy would raise an estimated £4.7 billion in 2029/30 and £2.6 billion in 2030/31, an Office for Budget Responsibility document said.

The OBR said the freeze in tax thresholds would result in 780,000 more basic-rate, 920,000 more higher-rate and 4,000 more additional-rate income tax payers in 2029/30, and estimated it will raise ...

Several people have been arrested after farmers drove tractors into central London for a Budget day protest, despite police restrictions. Reform UK said it would pay for the defence of farmers ...

A fire spread across multiple high-rise apartment buildings in a Hong Kong housing complex on Wednesday, killing 13 people and leaving others trapped inside, authorities said.

Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision to ban the direct action group.

Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his crumbling leadership’.

The Government’s decision to abolish the controversial two-child benefit limit from April is expected to be welcomed across the North East region.

It came as the UK’s official forecaster also reported that economic growth will be weaker than expected from 2026.

A Middlesbrough drug dealer who was caught with cocaine, cannabis and LSD has been locked up after he was caught twice by police.

Follow live announcements from the Budget 2025 as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to outline tax and spending changes ...