Humanoid robots are being added to the automation of waste sorting.

The British Beer and Pub Association says 161 pubs have closed in the first three months of this year.

Shipping company Maersk says one of its US-flagged commercial vessels has successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz under US military protection.

Two women from Lincolnshire are among 62 former franchisees taking the phone company to court.

She opened the first store with her husband Don in 1969, with the company calling her "a pioneering force in American retail".

Nissan says it is considering working with a third party to fully utilise its Sunderland plant.

Motoring group RAC has said prices at the pump could keep rising if there is no resolution to the Iran war.

There have been extra jitters in UK government debt markets ahead of Thursday's local and national elections.