A restaurant in London’s Chinatown once called the capital’s rudest has been fined more than £40,000 after mice and cockroaches were found in its kitchen. Wong Kei, which has traded on Wardour Street for decades and was “once famous for its impersonal level of service”, as the online guide to Chinatown puts it, was prosecuted…

The Hundred has been described as “a big fat Ponzi scheme” by a former chairman of the Indian Premier League as he doubled down on criticisms of the competition’s revenue projections after leaking key sections of the confidential document drafted by the England and Wales Cricket Board to pitch the tournament to foreign investors. In…

The chair of the Post Office’s remuneration committee has said she was surprised at how frequently the firm’s boss, Nick Read, asked about his pay and bonuses, given the pressure the organisation was under due to the ongoing fallout of the Horizon IT scandal. Amanda Burton, who joined the board of the Post Office as…

Rachel Reeves is rethinking parts of Labour’s crackdown on non-dom tax status over concerns that the plans will not raise any money. The chancellor is reassessing the government’s manifesto promise to close loopholes in the non-domiciled tax regime. The Guardian revealed this week that Treasury officials feared the spending watchdog was due to conclude the…

The boss of a Tesla factory has defended the decision to send managers to the homes of workers on long-term sick leave. In recent weeks, a director of Tesla’s electric car plant in Germany sent managers to check up on about two dozen employees who have continued to be paid while being on sick leave…

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature UK stocks have opened a touch higher, following further strong gains in Asia and on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 hit a fresh high. Stocks were boosted by relief that weekly US jobless claims came in better than expected and…

Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire On a private road besides Newstead Abbey parkland – a stately home open to the public with lakes, ponds and waterfalls – sits Woodlands, an unusual property with a heated outdoor swimming pool. It is more art gallery than home, with huge pieces dominating entire walls. The living room has floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing…

There seems to be no difference between Conservative and Labour policies on nuclear power. Both support the current building of Hinkley Point C in Somerset, the planned Sizewell C station in Suffolk, an unspecified number of small modular reactors all over Britain as well as the far-off dream of nuclear fusion. However, few scientists serious…

Tiger Woods speaks during the launch of Tiger Woods and TaylorMade Golf’s new apparel and footwear brand “Sun Day Red” at Palisades Village on February 12, 2024 in Pacific Palisades, California. Kevork Djansezian | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Tiger Woods’ new logo for his Sun Day Red golf apparel line is facing a…

Some of London’s main railway stations will be closed and train services diverted around Christmas, Network Rail has said. Passengers have been advised to plan ahead for the festive period, with Liverpool Street – now Britain’s busiest station – shut for eight days, Paddington for three days, and nine days of work planned affecting Thameslink…