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Lloyds Banking Group is to close a further 136 branches. Britain’s biggest mortgage lender said it will shut 61 Lloyds, 61 Halifax, and 14...

Lidl has been given approval by a High Court to open its first ever pub in Northern Ireland. The German supermarket chain will be...

Muslim charities say they are still having their bank accounts closed without warning or explanation and face difficulties opening an account despite the political...

Don’t, whatever you do, call it a “relaunch”. When the chancellor stands up and delivers her much-anticipated speech on Wednesday – with all sorts...

Quiz Clothing, the troubled fashion business, is close to collapsing into administration days after its shares were delisted from the London stock market. Sky...

Donald Trump thinks the Chinese startup DeepSeek, which claims it has a technical advantage over US rivals, should be “a wakeup call” for American AI...

The average asking price to rent a home outside London has fallen for the first time since before the COVID pandemic, according to a...

US tech firms exposed to big artificial intelligence (AI) investments are seeing their shares take a hammering over the emergence of a low-cost Chinese...

The owner of Hobbycraft is among a pack of suitors circling WH Smith, the 233-year-old high street chain which has been put up for...

One of Britain’s biggest luxury boat manufacturers has collapsed into administration less than two months after it was sold to new investors. Sky News...

Profits at Europe’s biggest airline are nearly ten times higher than the same time last year as more passengers paid more expensive airfares. Ryanair‘s...

Each Monday, our Money team speaks to someone from a different profession to discover what it’s really like. This week we chat to James...

A producer of robotics software spun out of the University of Sheffield will this week unveil a multimillion-pound fundraising led by the investment vehicle...

The chancellor spent most of her first six months issuing dire warnings about the calamitous state of the public finances she inherited. But now,...

The chancellor has said the government is “absolutely happy” to look at joining a pan-European customs area after the EU said it is open...

Rachel Reeves will this week announce plans to unlock tens of billions of pounds from corporate pension schemes as part of government plans to...

WH Smith is in secret talks to sell its entire high street business in Britain more than 230 years after it opened its first...

There has been an “unprecedented” rise in the number of businesses on the brink of insolvency, according to a closely watched report. The latest...

The boss of Britain’s biggest mortgage lender has told Sky News he expects three interest rate cuts this year, bringing some relief to borrowers...