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GuardianOct 5Preview

Lidl GB’s sales soar by over 10%, helped by price cuts and Deluxe range

German-owned supermarket beats Morrisons to become fifth largest grocer in Great Britain Business live – latest updatesLidl’s sales in Great Britain jumped 10% to more than £13bn this year, as shoppers sought out cheaper fresh meat, fruit and vegetables and snapped up its Deluxe range.Pre-tax profit at the German-owned supermarket’s arm in Great Britain grew by 30% to £245.5m in the year ended in February, up from £156.8m in the previous year. Continue reading...

Lauren AlmeidaLidlSupermarkets

GuardianOct 5Preview

Trump heads to Nebraska in attempt to shore up GOP’s midterm vote – US politics live

President to visit Grand Island as his plan to allow more foreign beef imports proves unpopular in agriculture-rich stateSign up for the Breaking News US emailThe White House has defended a newly hired press aide who posed for a holiday photograph in 2021 wearing a “Fuck Joe Biden” T-shirt and holding a rifle.Beni Rae Harmony, the new assistant White House press secretary, revealed on Friday that she was going to work for Donald Trump just days after covering him as a correspondent for Real America’s Voice, a partisan rightwing outlet originally created as a video podcast platform for the president’s former adviser Steve Bannon.The White House has defended a newly hired press aide who posed for a holiday photograph in 2021 wearing a “Fuck Joe Biden” T-shirt and holding a rifle. Beni Rae Harmony, the new assistant White House press secretary, revealed on Friday that she was going to work

Tom AmbroseUS newsUS midterm elections 2026

GuardianOct 5Preview

Spain’s Sánchez calls snap election amid national housing crisis – Europe live

PM says vote will take place on 29 November after parliament rejected two of his government’s emergency relief measuresThe conservative People’s Party is very pleased with the announcement.“At last,” they say on their X, with a slick election video – set to the EU’s anthem “Ode to Joy” – to go along with it.Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election for 29 November, just days after rightwing parties blocked his minority government’s emergency measures on housing amid widespread protests (9:10).The election will take place on Sunday, 29 November, the earliest possible date procedurally.In a fierce address, Sánchez framed the election as choice between “regressing” under a “far-right coalition” or “keeping moving forward” with his progressive administration (9:04, 9:09, 9:17).He said the election will be about who will guide Spain through a period of disruption amid hi

Jakub KrupaSpainPedro Sánchez

GuardianOct 5Preview

BT to buy broadband supplier TalkTalk in £400m rescue deal, saving 900 jobs

Virgin Media O2 complains of ‘stitch-up’ over rival provider, which has 1.5m customersBusiness live – latest updatesBT has agreed to buy the broadband supplier TalkTalk out of administration in a £400m rescue deal that will save 900 jobs.The company said it had struck a deal to acquire TalkTalk and its wholesale business PlatformX Communications (PXC) on a debt-free basis, in a move that is expected to cost it £400m. Continue reading...

Lauren Almeida and Mark SweneyBTTalkTalk

GuardianOct 5Preview

Shadow chancellor to address Tory conference as he claims slashing red tape could cut cost of new houses by £50,000 – UK politics live

Andrew Griffith makes speech today as Reform UK accuses party of copying policies they ‘announced weeks and months ago’Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural EnglandYesterday, as a gimmick, the Tories were handing out “Bottler Burnham” bottles of water (“0% strength”) to make a point about Burnham supposedly cancelling plans for an early election under pressure from the Tories. It is a version of a stunt they pulled in 2008 when they gave journalists bottles of a “Bottler Brown” beer. (Gordon Brown did pull plans for an early election at the last minute; this time the jibe is unfair, because there were no Burnham plans for an early election.)The new bottles feature the image of Burnham produced by the Manchester artist Stan Chow.The SNP’s effective ban on new nuclear energy in Scotland flies in the face of common-sense.No part of Great Britain should be missing out on p

Andrew SparrowPoliticsUK news