The head of Britain’s biggest energy supplier has claimed his competitors oppose proposals for so-called postcode pricing because they financially benefit from the current system. Octopus...
The new owner of the discount retailer Poundland has revealed proposals to close 68 stores and two distribution centres under a shake-up that will also see...
The UK-US trade deal has been signed and is “done”, US President Donald Trump has said as he met Sir Keir Starmer at the G7 summit....
Poundland will halt rent payments at hundreds of its shops if a restructuring of the ailing discount retailer is approved by creditors later this summer. Sky...
The UK’s cost of living crisis hangover is facing fresh pressure from the Israel-Iran conflict and growing tensions across the Middle East. Whenever the region, particularly...
The cost of rural crime in Wales is at its highest in more than a decade, a new report has revealed. Last year, rural crime cost...
Harrods is preparing to take legal action against the estate of its former owner, Mohamed al-Fayed, as the multimillion-pound legal bill for compensating his sexual abuse...
The high street lender Metro Bank has been approached about a private equity-backed takeover in a move that could lead to the disappearance of another company...
Rachel Reeves is a “gnat’s whisker” away from having to raise taxes in the autumn budget, a leading economist has warned – despite the chancellor insisting...
As hundreds lie dead following the latest tragedy to beset a Boeing passenger plane, it is too early to determine blame. Pilot error, engine failure and...
The FTSE 100 has secured a new record closing high after riding out a US trade war-linked slump. The index of London’s leading shares gained 20...
The UK economy shrank more than expected in April as the worst of President Trump’s tariffs hit. The standard measure of economic output (GDP) contracted a...
Rachel Reeves is setting out her spending review in the House of Commons. It outlines how much funding individual government departments will receive over the next...
The chancellor will unveil the spending review at lunchtime – with plans to invest billions of pounds across the UK. However, Rachel Reeves will admit that...
The UK’s jobless rate ticked up to 4.6% in April while payrolled employment has fallen sharply since, according to official figures covering the period when budget...
Wood Group, the troubled London-listed oil services company, is racing to finalise a cut-price takeover by a Gulf-based rival by the end of the month. Sky...
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has resumed some online clothes orders six weeks after a damaging cyberattack that the retailer has warned will cost it hundreds of...
The UK has one of the “worst statutory leave offers for fathers and other parents in the developed world”, the chairwoman of the Women and Equalities...
Fifteen years after the Sizewell C nuclear power station was proposed, the government will announce a £14.2bn commitment to the Suffolk site. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is...
Winter fuel payments will extend to everyone over the state pension age with an income of or below £35,000 a year, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced....