The UK’s power grid operator has issued a call for electricity providers to bolster output this evening to avert the risk of blackouts. The National Energy...
Piers Morgan, the broadcaster and journalist, is leaving Rupert Murdoch’s British empire to focus on expanding his Uncensored YouTube channel in the US and other international...
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars says a record £300m investment at its West Sussex factory base will help expand production of bespoke and electric models. The BMW-owned firm,...
UK music sales hit a 20-year high of £2.4bn in 2024, helped by pop megastar Taylor Swift’s latest album, and driven by streaming and the vinyl...
A representative for one of the world’s biggest fast fashion retailers, Shein was unable to answer questions from MPs over where it sources its cotton from....
UK long-term borrowing costs have hit their highest level since 1998. The unwanted milestone for the Treasury’s coffers was reached ahead of an auction of 30-year...
There is mounting evidence that consumers are facing hikes to bills on many fronts after Next became the latest to warn of price rises ahead.
Shop prices will rise in 2025 as the key Christmas trading period failed to meet retailers’ expectations, according to industry data. Shop sales grew just 0.4%...
Here’s a quiz question: how much would you say the supply of non-Russian gas to Europe (including the UK) has gone up since the invasion of...
More than half of private sector firms are planning price hikes to help offset looming tax increases announced in the chancellor’s first budget , according to...
A television network majority-owned by David Montgomery, the media entrepreneur, is to snap up the licence to operate a London-focused TV station from Lord Lebedev, owner...
Outside it is the bleak midwinter. We are smack bang in the middle of some of the country’s best agricultural land. But inside the cavernous warehouse...
The owners of Shawbrook Group, the mid-sized British lender, are drawing up plans to kickstart London’s moribund listings arena with a stock market flotation, valuing it...
Donald Trump has said the UK is making “a very big mistake” in its fossil fuel policy – and should “get rid of windmills”. In a...
Tide, the business banking services platform, has hired advisers to orchestrate a fresh share sale as it pursues rapid growth in the UK and overseas. Sky...
An outsourcing group backed by Lord Hammond, the former chancellor of the exchequer, is among the suitors circling Telent, a major provider of digital infrastructure services....
The Post Office is proposing a big hike in the fees that banks pay to allow their customers to access its network as it attempts to...
UK business goes into the new year in a surly mood. New Chancellor Rachel Reeves‘s hike in employer’s National Insurance contributions (NICs) in her autumn budget...
A committee of MPs has called for the government to be fined if it fails to provide redress quickly enough to victims of the Horizon software...
What a year 2024 was. A massive election – well, two massive elections on either side of the Atlantic, and more elsewhere around the planet –...