The Premier League is targeting a financial agreement with its lower league counterparts within weeks as English football seeks to head off political criticism over the...
The UK economy grew slightly in the three months to June, according to official estimates. Gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.2% in the second quarter...
Homeware firm Wilko has gone into administration – putting 12,000 jobs at risk. It comes after Sky News revealed earlier on Thursday the retail chain was...
Halifax has become the latest lender to cut mortgage rates this week after it announced reductions of up to 0.71 percentage points. HSBC, Nationwide and TSB...
More than a third of bosses have reported an increase in staff working from home compared to last year. Acas, which carried out the research, said...
Rents will continue to rise as more people enter the rental market with fewer properties to choose from, the professional body for surveyors has said. Demand...
Unite has warned holidaymakers they face “severe disruption” at Gatwick Airport this month after ground staff announced a new series of strikes. More than 230 workers,...
Six English water companies are facing legal action over allegations they under-reported pollution discharges and overcharged customers as a result. Professor Carolyn Roberts, an environmental and...
The UK is on course to experience five years of “lost” economic growth and is at risk of a recession next year, according to an economic...
Consumers spent less in shops as wet weather dampened demand for typical seasonal goods in July, latest figures show. Total UK retail sales increased 1.5%, according...
Ofgem’s energy price cap is preventing customers from accessing lower tariffs, contributing to inflation and should be abolished, a new report has claimed. The cap has...
One of Britain’s biggest housebuilders is planning widespread redundancies and the closure of two regional divisions as it battles a slump in demand from new buyers....
Food prices may not fall at all, the chief economist at the Bank of England has said. The cost of sustenance “could still remain higher than...
House prices fell by 2.4% in the year up to July – but there are signs the market is showing ‘resilience’, according to the Halifax. The...
Barbie might be synonymous with pink – but her film is now firmly in the green, with more than $1bn (£784m) in box office sales worldwide....
A leading private equity investor is among the suitors circling Nicotinell, the anti-smoking aid which has been earmarked for sale by its FTSE-100 owner. Sky News...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has promised to investigate unlawful bank closures after the chancellor warned the practice could be “widespread”. Jeremy Hunt told the FCA...
One of Britain’s biggest lenders to small businesses is hatching plans for a £3.5bn tie-up with the Co-operative Bank. Sky News has learnt that Shawbrook Group...
The new owner of Purplebricks, the online estate agent, is finalising plans to cut more than 100 jobs in a bid to improve its financial performance....
The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the fourteenth successive time, lifting its official rate to 5.25%. The quarter percentage point increase was somewhat...