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Government paid £10.9bn in debt interest, the highest September figure since records beganBusiness live – latest updatesThe Treasury ran a higher than expected budget deficit of £24.5bn last month as...
A look at some of the options after PM is urged to consider radical alternatives to deal with stricken companyAndy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and pres...
Decision has implications for household energy bills, the UK economy and the climate crisisUK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North SeaNils Pratley: Jackdaw approval is a step towards a grownup North Sea...
Jackdaw gasfield announcement signals UK’s commitment to North Sea industry but undermines green credentialsWhat does the approval of the Jackdaw gasfield mean?The Jackdaw gasfield will be given the g...
Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts sayIt happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London, and thin...
Union furious as bank scraps remote-first policy from February 2027, forcing all UK employees to come in at least twice a weekNatWest has ordered 13,000 staff to increase their in-office days from two...
Flutter says one in 10 UK and Ireland workers at risk of redundancy because of a ‘material increase in betting and gaming duties’The gambling company behind Paddy Power and Sky Bet has announced up to...
Stricken UK water supplier lines up John Hutton as independent chair designate if takeover goes aheadThe group of Thames Water creditors pursuing a £10bn rescue deal for Britain’s largest water suppli...
Services restored for most users, but power fault stalled hearings and left Revolut, Lloyds and HSBC customers unable to pay or move moneyAn outage at Google’s cloud services in the UK has caused wide...
Latest ONS data presents mixed picture amid slump in job vacancies and analysts warning labour market is ‘running on idle’Healey to reject calls to raise CGT in budgetUnemployment in the UK has fallen...
Some users claim online marketplace’s automated systems stack odds against them when sales go wrongAfter Catherine Warrilow sold a Zara necklace for £6 on Vinted, she packed it up and posted it off, j...
Transport hub will offer through trains between Leeds and Manchester with ‘turn-up-and-go’ serviceA new railway station will be built in Bradford to “transform how people travel across the north”, th...
Exclusive: Utility seen as ‘litmus test’ of PM’s promise to bring ‘essentials of life’ under public controlAndy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present...
More than 160 offshore rig workers plan walkout amid rising tensions between unions and oil companies North Sea workers are preparing to strike at oil rigs across the ageing basin over the coming we...
Neso control room staff accused senior executives of covering up extent of blackout risks during June heatwaveIndependent investigators have found significant and concerning “cultural issues” at Great...
Concerns financial contracts known as derivatives were incorrectly logged, potentially boosting Barclays’ profitsThe Bank of England is reportedly looking into Barclays’ handling of loans linked to th...
Leftwing outlet said it had faced ‘multiple attacks’ and ‘malicious lies’ which made its situation unsustainableThe leftwing news site the Canary has announced that it is closing indefinitely. Earlier...
The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and as the company prepares for a stock market listingAnthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the “public good”, as the A...
Hamptons says figure of 56% is highest in at least a decade, with mortgage rates rising since start of Iran warA majority of first-time UK buyers now pay more towards their monthly mortgage bills than...
Despite recent progress, almost a fifth of air travellers with disabilities are still dissatisfied with their experienceDisabled passengers will have better safeguards when flying, the government has...