The owner of Cafe Rouge is in talks to buy Chiquito’s and Frankie and Benny’s, two of Britain’s best-known restaurant chains. Sky News has learnt that...
The supermarket chain Wm Morrison is in talks about a £2bn deal to offload one of Britain’s biggest petrol forecourts empires. Sky News has learnt the grocer...
The CBI, once Britain’s most influential business organisation, is facing an urgent cash crunch as it races to cut costs and seal a potential tie-up with...
The government’s green energy plans have been dealt a blow after firms snubbed an auction for contracts to run new offshore wind sites, sparking warnings of...
About 80% of mortgage holders and renters are now worried about rising housing costs, according to a poll. Which? said the figure was the highest in...
With his heritage and large extended family in the country, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will receive a warmer welcome than most of the other world leaders...
MPs have accused ministers of “flying blind” and “shrugging their shoulders” at the scale of fraud – which has quadrupled since the start of the COVID pandemic....
The triple lock for state pensions has led to an extra £11bn being spent on the benefit per year, new research has shown. A report by...
The CBI, the embattled employers’ lobbying group, is in talks with Make UK, the manufacturers’ body, about areas of potential collaboration in what some observers believe...
The competition watchdog is to launch a review into the UK’s £2bn veterinary industry following concerns that pet owners are not getting value for money. The...
The UK will rejoin the European Union’s flagship Horizon science programme after two years of absence post-Brexit, the government has confirmed. Number 10 said the move...
Smart home devices, including appliances like washing machines, demand unnecessarily large amounts of user data that could end up in the hands of social media and...
A top Aldi executive has told Sky News that a surge in demand for its offering during the cost of living crisis to date has prompted...
Energy industry leaders have warned the UK could fall behind a key target for new offshore wind power ahead of the results of a government auction...
The governor of the Bank of England has told MPs that interest rates may not rise much further amid expectations that inflation is set to fall...
Rick Haythornthwaite, the City grandee who has chaired companies including Centrica and Network Rail, is being lined up as the new chairman of NatWest Group in...
The boss of the UK’s largest household energy supplier has been forced to defend record profits amid warnings of worse times ahead for household bills this...
A vast trust that would plough £1,000 pots of cash from birth into long-term UK investments is among the ideas that will be floated this week...
The locations of 52 Wilko stores that will close after failing to secure a rescue deal have been revealed by administrators. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which was appointed...
The price of petrol in the UK could soon rise further after the cost of oil jumped to its highest level this year. Brent crude climbed...