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The UK’s biggest independent toy retailer is being taken from private ownership and will be owned by its employees, who will share in the...

At a community food table in Staffordshire, produce is being handed out for free. “I need to come here otherwise we’d be living on...

The long-term lease to the O2, London’s best-known live entertainment venue, has been sold to Britain’s biggest pensions insurance specialist. Sky News understands a...

Sir Martin Sorrell, the advertising mogul, has received a number of merger approaches for S4 Capital, the London-listed marketing services group he founded seven...

The owners of Visma, one of Europe’s biggest software companies, are close to hiring bankers for a £16bn flotation that would rank among the...

The American investment giant Carlyle is preparing to take control of Very Group, one of Britain’s biggest online retailers, in a deal that will...

What do we do about the non-doms?  It’s a question more than a handful of people have been asking themselves at the Treasury lately....

The economy is stagnating and job losses are mounting. Now is the time to cut interest rates again. That was the view of the...

The Bank of England has cut the interest rate for the fifth time in a year to 4% but warned that climbing food prices...

Donald Trump has announced 100% tariffs on computer chips and semiconductors made outside the US. The move threatens to increase the cost of electronics...

The London-listed parent of Primark was on Wednesday applying the finishing touches to a landmark transaction that will unite the Hovis and Kingsmill bread...

Rachel Reeves will need to find more than £40bn of tax rises or spending cuts in the autumn budget to meet her fiscal rules,...

The chief executive of Ofwat is to step down within months as Britain’s embattled water regulator prepares to be abolished by ministers. Sky News...

BP has signalled an accelerated effort to bring down costs ahead, refusing to rule out further job losses as artificial intelligence (AI) technology helps...

British Land, the FTSE 250 commercial property company, has hired lawyers to scrutinise rescue deals for the high street retailers Poundland and River Island....

The City watchdog has provisionally banned former star fund manager Neil Woodford and fined him and his former fund company almost £46m. The Financial...

Permission for the first vertical space launch from UK soil by a British rocket company has been granted by the air safety regulator. The...

Bank stocks have enjoyed a boost as traders digest the Supreme Court’s ruling on the car finance scandal. Some of the country’s most exposed...

Tesla’s board has signed off a $29bn (£21.8bn) share award to Elon Musk after a court blocked an earlier package worth almost double that...