The Princess of Wales attended the glittering state dinner staged for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Windsor Castle.
Some economists had previously been expecting policymakers to deliver a cut, prior to the escalation of the war in Iran.
Peers also rejected an attempt to overturn the move by MPs to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancy.
An endangered monkey whose foot was saved from amputation thanks to pioneering surgery has given birth. Fifteen-year-old roloway monkey Masaya welcomed infant Lagertha months after a complex operation ...
Energy firms have been warned not to rip off businesses as the Middle East crisis forces prices up. Regulator Ofgem and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband have written to business suppliers to demand ...
A 69-year-old man has been arrested in Gloucester over historic rape, kidnap and sexual assault allegations from the 1970s ...
“The strategy also reaffirms the transition to electric arc steel production in the UK, where Port Talbot is leading the way, not just in the UK, but across Europe. It was great to be able to meet the ...
Students from the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent have begun to receive the meningitis B vaccine amid an outbreak ...
One school pupil and one university student have died following the outbreak linked to a nightclub in Canterbury.
Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly met the president during a host of engagements in the US this ...