Mobile operator’s move could potentially delay sale already affected by coronavirus upheaval

Combining Virgin Media and O2 would reshape British telecoms market

Cable company added Three as a new customer for so-called ‘backhaul’ network

Liberty Global’s buccaneering owner sets his sights on Telefonica’s O2

UK telecoms group warns shareholders over lower payouts in future as it focuses on broadband network upgrade

Deal’s architects say it will improve connectivity, choice and value, but consumers have heard that before

US car rental group backed by billionaire Carl Icahn extends crucial payment deadline

After lockdown, start-ups will need to work with city authorities to keep cars off the roads

Municipal authorities encourage cycling amid fears networks cannot cope with social distancing

In the face of lockdown, go online to tour the world’s best gardens and shop for bulbs

Returning land and native species to nature grips the imagination. But not everyone is convinced

Lockdown videos give us a new way to judge character

From greenhouses to screenhouses, these properties will make your green fingers twitch

Look behind the doors of a medieval Swiss castle that’s piquing much curiosity

Vintage is best — chipped, stained and covered with lichen and moss

It offers a way to avoid mortgage debt and landlord enrichment — and live a scaled-back life

Humble, grand or fanciful — these designs have serious bed cred

How discarded laughing-gas cylinders were used to create glitter from litter

The flower is a motif found in writers from Eliot to Proust to Turgenev

From an 18th-century farmhouse in the US to a traditional Deià-style home in Mallorca

This cornucopia of vegetation in ceramic and bronze is the apotheosis of the style

Coronavirus puts into perspective the cult of perfection in interior design

Running downstairs is b-o-r-i-n-g when you can slide or use a fireman’s pole instead

This season’s hottest trend takes in all things Japanese - from Macaque to Japandi

Style options distilled from a confluence of African, Arab and Mediterranean cultures

There’s more to the Swedish interiors giant than Billy bookcases

Nooks for books can be created anywhere in the home

Despite good musicianship from both principals, their songs make little impression

Warmly burnished and gently cryptic, this is easy listening at its most enjoyable

New album channels protest music and social comment through Delta blues mythology and psych-rock

Eric Clapton’s collaborator Duane Allman helped transform the song into a bravura rock showpiece

A star-studded cast sang from their own homes in the New York opera house’s four-hour show

Subscriber numbers surge to 130m as listeners turn to tunes in a crisis

Brian Christinzio’s vocals have the singsong flow of Brian Wilson

An alt-rock concept album whose concept is never clearly defined

Brooding subject matter meets richly detailed music in the British rapper’s fifth album

The American singer’s album is sexually frank, with harmonies reminiscent of Mariah Carey

A reissue of the group’s 1981 debut recalls a fecund period in Accra’s musical history

The opera singer gets to the heart of the music in tender performances

The trumpeter captures his compatriot’s mischievous sense of humour and serious intent

The ENO is adapting a gimmick to attract new audiences now the pandemic has hit

Singers down the years have been drawn to a mysterious track written by a man who turned his back on music

The annual parade of work by living composers went online, performed from living rooms

With summer events cancelled, the focus is on how to recoup funding and audiences

The Californian brings a melodious voice and an enticing sense of groove to her second album

Paramore frontwoman broadens her sonic palette with solo debut

The Canadian rapper’s surprise mixtape flunks out with ill-advised guest-star choices

With swaggering reggae beats to modern Maghrebi, the near-original line-up reunites for a new studio album

The British composer interprets the Czech’s piano works with an unsentimental, sharply focused immediacy

The singer’s sandblasted baritone relates his dark autobiography with irresistible swagger