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Lego says a drive to remove fossil fuels from its bricks is making further progress but the alternatives, while better for the environment, are...

The water industry has said that without even greater water bill rises, the regulator is set for failure and firms will be unable to...

The chancellor has refused to rule out inheritance and capital gains tax rises after Sir Keir Starmer warned the autumn budget will be “painful”....

One in two LGBT+ employees are facing “shockingly high levels” of bullying and harassment at work, a survey has found.  A survey of 1,000...

The owner of Ted Baker will on Wednesday announce that it has struck a deal with an American group to re-establish an online presence...

Thousands of Next workers have won an equal pay claim against their employer. An employment tribunal said the mostly female sales consultant floor staff...

Shop prices have come down for the first time in nearly two years, according to industry data. Goods in UK shops cost 0.3% less...

Sir Keir Starmer will vow on Tuesday to “reverse a decade of decline” and to “fix the foundations” of the UK economy. Delivering a...

The arrest of the billionaire Telegram founder on French soil was not a political decision, the country’s president has said. Pavel Durov, who created...

The leading contender to buy Everton Football Club is preparing to launch within days a plan to take his sports and technology holding company...

Unilever, the FTSE-100 consumer goods behemoth behind Marmite and Lynx, is trying to slim its portfolio of personal care brands by putting two of...

A British fraud detection company backed by Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneur who died this week, is in talks about a sale to Visa,...

The pound has hit its highest level against the US dollar since March 2022 after the chair of the Federal Reserve declared that “the...

The energy price cap will rise to an average annual £1,717 from October, the industry regulator has confirmed as the clock ticks down to...

Consumers are feeling more optimistic about their personal finances – but worse about the overall state of the UK economy, according to a closely...

One of Mike Lynch’s neighbours has described him as “generous, humble and full of integrity”, telling Sky News he will “leave a hole that...

Vessels like Mike Lynch’s stricken superyacht are “unsinkable”, according to the chief executive of the firm which makes and sells them. Giovanni Costantino, CEO...

Government borrowing rose to the highest amount since the pandemic in July, official figures show, as public sector pay increased. Not since 2021 has...

A pilot scheme scrapping peak-time ScotRail fares will end next month following a “limited degree of success”. Transport Scotland said the trial – subsidised...