Business

Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, will hold talks with union bosses and business leaders on Wednesday as the government pursues its ambition of...

Guardian Media Group (GMG) is in talks to sell The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media, a start-up founded five years...

Nearly 1,400 OVO customers are to receive compensation after the energy firm was hit with a £2.37m penalty for complaint handling failures. Energy regulator...

Traffic could soon be banned from part of London’s most popular shopping area, under new plans by the capital’s mayor.  A scheme announced by...

A former Treasury official is leading the race to become the next chairman of Lloyd’s of London, one of the City’s most prestigious posts....

The iconic Belfast company that built the Titanic is to collapse into administration. Harland & Wolff has announced it is insolvent and will appoint...

Flutter Entertainment, the owner of Paddy Power, is closing in on a £2bn swoop for the consumer operations of Playtech, the gambling technology group....

The Premier League’s long-awaited hearing into Manchester City’s alleged breaches of financial rules will begin later. City, the reigning Premier League champions, face 115...

A momentous court battle over the fate of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire gets under way in Nevada today. At stake is the future of...

Legal & General, the FTSE-100 insurance and asset management giant, will this week pick a new home for Cala Group, its housebuilding subsidiary. Sky...

Babcock International, the London-listed defence contractor, is weighing a possible bid for some of the assets of Harland and Wolff, the shipbuilder which is...

A London-listed automotive components supplier has become the latest British-based company to draw overseas takeover interest after receiving a series of offers from a...

Two of Britain’s biggest newspaper publishers are taking the axe to their US workforces, slashing scores of jobs in the latest evidence of mounting...

The lawyer for those affected by Capture software predating the faulty Horizon system says his “belief” is that the “report is going to be...

Tens of millions of mobile phone users could end up paying more if the merger between Vodafone and Three goes ahead, the competition watchdog...

The gap between how much money the state takes in and its spending will triple in the next 50 years, according to independent forecasters....

Tesco says it will accept a Supreme Court ruling in a so-called ‘fire and rehire’ case amid government efforts to bolster workers’ rights. The...

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has said he is prepared to introduce a two-drink limit on his planes – if the same rule is applied...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has moved to cut borrowing costs again as the inflation threat continues to abate while economic growth falters. The...