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Currys makes progress on Nordics but UK computer sales drop

CURRYS today revealed slow signs of progress towards fixing its disastrous Nordics business today, but a fall in computer sales hit its core UK arm.

AERO UPLIFT: MELROSE SHIFTS FOCUS TO CHALLENGE ROLLS-ROYCE

MELROSE today set out plans to turn the screws on arch rival Rolls-Royce as it forecast annual profits of £1 billion amid an aerospace boom.

Coats and 'Carly' dresses help Hobbs look smart as Whistles profits also rise

WOMEN'S fashion chains Hobbs and Whistles have defied high street gloom with improved sales and profit.

TOPSY OJO: France are perfect hosts but teams must not be scared by their hostile fans

STRAP yourselves in and hold on tight - this Rugby World Cup will boast seriously competitive matches that can genuinely go either way.

MIRACLE-MAN KOLISI PRIMED FOR ANOTHER AMAZING TALE

ONE day, Siya Kolisi could be South Africa's president. For the next two months, the Springbok Superman will settle for leading his nation's Rugby World Cup defence.

Bring student loans in line with the cost of living

THIS year, for the first time, two thirds of first-year students intend to find part-time jobs to augment maintenance loans that barely cover rent, let alone food or travel to campus, says Ucas. Some universities, including Anglia Ruskin's London campuses, are moving to threeday weeks to facilitate part-time work.

Scorchio! As we sizzle in the sun let's cheer this Hot Milf summer

DURING my Mykonos to London City flight this August, I gazed down at the Alps, engrossed in the thought-sequence I use to self-soothe during any turbulence in life as well as air travel.

19,401 minutes on the phone help student land Standard art prize

THE winner of this year's Evening Standard Art Prize said it was an \"amazing opportunity\" to launch her career.

US to send depleted uranium anti-tank shells in $175m aid package for Ukraine

AMERICA has announced that it will send controversial depleted uranium anti-tank shells to Ukraine to help its forces push through Russian lines in its grinding counter-offensive.

Feral four fire up the death of civility

WE NEVER have to wait long for a new revival of Yasmina Reza's play which, like her other great success Art, every few years attracts starry casts to take on the particular rhythms of her savage takedown of middle-class civility. This time it's the turn of Freema Agyeman, familiar as Doctor Who companion Martha Jones, in a production directed by Nicholai La Barrie which looks stylish but only comes alive in its final moments.

Two problems tackled in one move: now let's do it

CLOSE to 14 million people experience food insecurity in Britain every day. Four million are just children. At the same time, we waste more than three million tons of food every year: that's an area nearly half the size of Wales, producing healthy crops that never get eaten.

Dumped in landfill or burnt: enough good food for 7 bn meals

Just a tiny percentage of the £750m subsidy for waste plants would help alleviate the daily battle for millions of struggling families, reports David Cohen

Welcome back, you diamond geezers. We're lucky to have you

ONE has to be careful when tossing around phrases like \"This may be the last time\" in the context of Rolling Stones happenings. They have, for about 642 decades now, been making a mockery of such pronouncements.

'Big questions to answer' over terror suspect's prison escape

A POLICE manhunt for a former soldier accused of terrorism entered a second day as a Cabinet minister admitted there were \"big questions to answer\" about his prison escape.

Colwill: I'll keep pushing myself to make sure I'm at the Euros

CHELSEA defender Levi Colwill says he is aiming to continue his rapid rise by cementing a place in the England team by next summer's Euros.

Cole's debt of thanks to Borthwick as he admits: I thought my Test days were done

DAN COLE spent three of the last four years thinking his international career was over.

'WE'RE RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE VERY BEST'

ARGENTINA STAR CREEVY'S WARNING FOR ENGLAND

No1 Alcaraz in Djokovic's sights again

THE newest rivalry in tennis edges ever closer to its latest denouement, after Novak Djokovic booked his place in a 47th Grand Slam semi-final with relative ease in New York last night.

Brook has to wait in wings, but Bairstow is simply flying

England chiefs have plenty to clear up ahead of World Cup

Shops and clinics boost Howard de Walden Estates

THE aristocratic owners of one of central London's great property estates today revealed higher revenues and profits amid strong demand for shops in Marylebone and Harley Street clinics.

Darktrace rushes to calm jitters as it adds to M&A war chest

DARKTRACE today sought to calm investor nerves over a cut in earnings forecasts as the cybersecurity firm boosted its readiness for acquisitions.

Halfords bike sales fall with spending shift to car repairs

HALFORDS today said spending on cycling has fallen as customers focus budgets on keeping their cars on the road.

Our superheated Tube would not be fit for a fish

TWO days ago I was awoken from my Covid sick bed by my son screaming.

There's lurking a deep-rooted problem in the NHS...groupthink

LISTEN to the patient, [they are] telling you the diagnosis\". So said William Osler, the \"father of modern medicine\". It is a rule that is not always followed.

Water chiefs condemned over 'scandal' of sewage in Thames

THAMES Water was today condemned by London MPs as the Commons debated plans by the embattled utility giant to discharge millions of litres of treated sewage.

I'm an idiot: Loose Women star fined over insurance

LOOSE Women star Linda Robson confessed \"I'm an idiot\" and posed for a photograph with a police officer after being caught out over a car insurance blunder.

Matthew Freud's country escape

When is a hotel not a hotel? When it's a mind-expanding super-chic retreat where activities like perfumery and Padel are included and meals are eaten communally, says Harriet Quick

No more daring stunt scenes for me, vows Theron

CHARLIZE THERON has revealed she won't do any more big stunt scenes ahead of the release of her latest action movie, insisting she is \"no Tom Cruise\".

Number of young London smokers halves as more vape

THE proportion of young people in London who smoke has halved in over a decade, figures have revealed, amid a sharp rise in vaping.

Wainwright delivers the goodies as orchestra sets volume to 11

BACK in the 1970s, when Oldies but Goodies concerts were the rage in the US, singer Rick Nelson poured scorn on the concept in his song Garden Party: \"If memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck\".