Business

In the narrow lanes around Aldham in Essex the countryside is close to the English ideal. On an unseasonably warm mid-October day the fields...

The government has announced plans to remove benefits and step up monitoring of welfare recipients in an effort to bring more people into work....

Hotel Chocolat has agreed to a £534m takeover offer from Mars, the maker of goods from Snickers bars to Pedigree dog food. The UK...

Royal Mail’s parent firm says the tough economy has knocked its recovery from the bitter pay dispute with frontline staff, reporting half-year losses of...

The chancellor has been called on to freeze business rates and to extend reliefs as business lobbyists warn a failure to do so risks...

Manchester United has confirmed its chief executive of two years, Richard Arnold, “has decided to step down” as part of a “management transition”. The...

There has been a sharp decline in the rate of inflation to 4.6%, driven by a big easing in energy costs. The Office for...

The chief executive of Manchester United Football Club is to leave after just two years in the job as its owners finalise the sale...

There has been a sharp decline in the rate of inflation to 4.6%, driven by a big easing in energy costs. The Office for...

The government will this week increase the price offered to offshore wind farm developers after the total failure of its last auction round left...

Citizens Advice helped more than 8,000 people with homelessness issues in October, the highest monthly figure ever recorded. A rising number of Section 21...

The chancellor has agreed to address the CBI’s first public event since the business lobbying group was plunged into crisis earlier this year. Sky...

Roughly 500 jobs are to go at pharma giant Pfizer’s Kent site. The roles are to be cut as Pfizer is discontinuing its pharmaceutical...

The pace of wage growth has eased back from a record level, according to official figures that showed a resilient labour market despite the...

House prices have grown in 70 local authorities across Britain despite an overall UK-wide fall, according to the latest analysis from a subsidiary of...

The energy watchdog has introduced rules to speed up the amount of time it takes energy projects to connect to the national grid and...

Royal Mail has been fined £5.6m by the industry regulator for missing targets covering both first and second-class deliveries. Ofcom said that for the...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) wants government action over escalating baby formula prices that are “exploiting” British families. In an interview with Sky News,...

An infrastructure investor owned by Schroders, the fund management behemoth, is in pole position to buy a solar farms operator that received hundreds of...