New CGIs show the development of 141 homes on rural land

New images have been revealed showing plans for a scaled-down estate on farmland. Vistry Homes has released new details showing what the proposal on the edge of Tenterden could look like after a larger scheme failed to gain permission four years ago. New details have been submitted for a 141-home development in Tenterden. Photo: Vistry … Read more

Why lawyer Keir Starmer could struggle to restore the city’s swagger

Painful new taxes were introduced under the Conservatives. The bank levy brings in around £1.5 billion a year to the Treasury. The bank surcharge, introduced to prevent lenders benefiting from corporate tax cuts, has raised £2.5 billion in the 2022-2023 period, although that revenue is declining now that corporation tax has risen again. Matthew Lesh … Read more

Dame Sharon White: ‘John Lewis is back on track’

“Over the last five years we’ve had events happen every once in a while,” she says, sipping tea in the restaurant of Peter Jones, the John Lewis department store that invites the well-heeled shoppers of Sloane Square, Chelsea, to reflect on some middle class household items. “We’ve had the pandemic and we’ve had inflation at … Read more

Telegraph auction starts with claims of ‘extremely strong’ interest

One source said both titles were profitable and had delivered strong growth in recent months, meaning interest was expected to be robust. It is believed that some candidates will be interested in both newspaper and magazine, while others will bid on just one title. RedBird IMI hopes to recoup the £600 million it paid last … Read more

One week warning as major mobile company with thousands of customers has to close

A MAJOR mobile phone provider is closing within days and all customers still on the network must act quickly. Plusnet, part of the BT Group, will permanently close its mobile branch in June. Plusnet is permanently closing its mobile armCredit: Alamy The provider is making this move so that EE, also part of the group, … Read more

‘New EU rules will only make the stalemate worse – so we close’

A bed shop boss has blamed traffic congestion and new EU border rules for the closure of his store after just two years of trading. Steve Pickering opened Sussex Beds on St James Retail Park in Dover after identifying the site’s “great potential”. Steve Pickering, CEO of Sussex Beds, says he has made the “difficult … Read more

‘Evri did not tell us that we could no longer accept parcels, our customers did’

The manager of a village shop says she is ‘devastated’ after Evri unexpectedly withdrew her services from the store. Sevie Ashby, who runs Cobham Community Stores in Cobham, near Gravesend, says she only found out the store had been decommissioned when customers told her last month. Sevie Ashby, manager of Cobham Community Stores Last April, … Read more

Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for super-intelligent AI with new company

Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever physically gestures as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. On Wednesday, former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced he is forming a new company called Safe Superintelligence, Inc. (SSI) with the aim of safely building ‘superintelligence’, a hypothetical form of artificial intelligence that … Read more

Disney employees must move to Florida to file a lawsuit after the company abandons new plans

The latest headlines from our US reporters sent straight to your inbox every weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from around the US Disney employees who were told they would have to move from Los Angeles to Florida to work at a new campus have launched a lawsuit after the company abandoned its new … Read more