Thames Water has revealed a 40% spike in sewage spills while warning that a looming decision on what it can charge customers is “fundamental to our...
An attempt by Rupert Murdoch to change who controls the future of his media empire has been blocked. A court document accuses the 93-year-old of acting...
Bankers are to review state spending as part of a push to bring the private sector “into the heart of government”. External oversight is to be...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said she is “overwhelmed” by the response to the UK’s first attendance at an EU finance ministers’ meeting since Brexit. No negotiations...
Audiences in the UK and Ireland will be able to continue viewing popular American shows after Sky extended and expanded its deal with Warner Bros. Discovery...
The entrepreneur Dale Vince has made a fresh approach to the owner of The Guardian in a bid to persuade it to open talks with him...
A London-listed marketing specialist backed by Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative Party treasurer, will this week announce the purchase of a key digital partner to sporting...
Harland & Wolff (H&W), the shipyard-owner which built the Titanic, is closing on a government-backed rescue deal with a Spanish shipping industry group. Sky News can...
Fourteen new trains are to be built at a Hitachi plant in County Durham, securing hundreds of jobs. The plan safeguards 700 jobs with a £500m...
Across Europe, car companies are cutting jobs and shutting factories – to the extent that some question their very existence. So it’s worth asking the question:...
To listen to UK car manufacturers in recent weeks has been to hear a counsel of despair over the electric vehicle market. Struggling to hit targets...
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for 25% of new car registrations in November, an almost 60% increase year-on-year and well above a government target manufacturers have...
Thames Water’s largest creditor group has failed to secure a veto over whether a £3bn emergency funding injection is used to settle regulatory fines imposed for...
The competition watchdog has approved the creation of the UK’s biggest phone network by allowing the merger of Three and Vodafone. Regulator the Competition and Markets...
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has been valued at more than $100,000 for the first time, spurred on by Donald Trump’s latest nomination for his presidential...
Scotland has vowed to scrap the two-child benefit cap, saying it will lift 15,000 Scottish children out of poverty. Scotland’s finance secretary Shona Robison also committed...
Police in New York are hunting a gunman who shot dead a healthcare executive outside a hotel in what was a “brazen targeted attack”. Brian Thompson,...
One of Britain’s biggest parcel carriers has been hit by a capacity crisis at the start of the crunch festive trading period, forcing it to urge...
Business reaction to the budget is the “biggest issue” facing the Bank of England, according to its governor – while he also contemplates the impact of...
The first three railway companies to be nationalised have been named as part of the new Labour government’s plan to bring rail into public ownership. In...