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Thames Water has been asked to explain a £37.5m dividend payment made to a parent company. Ofwat, the water regulator, asked the firm to...

The cost of a traditional Christmas dinner will rise on last year, according to a closely-watched report that is also forecasting record sales for...

Thames Water has revealed an 18% rise in pollution incidents during the first half of its financial year. The country’s largest household supplier reported...

Israeli authorities are investigating claims some investors may have known in advance about the Hamas plan to attack Israel on 7 October and used...

If you want a sensible document with some interesting and well-reasoned ideas for what we ought to do about the UK economy (and some...

A new five-point plan to reduce immigration has been announced by the government, which includes banning care workers from bringing over their families and...

The government will announce a package of measures today aimed at reducing record levels of legal migration. Home Secretary James Cleverly is expected to...

Manchester United Football Club and Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the petrochemicals billionaire, aim to announce within days a £1.25bn deal that will see him take...

The chief executive of Ofcom will remain recused from a probe into the takeover of The Daily Telegraph even after Lloyds Banking Group –...

Popular music-streaming app Spotify will cut almost a fifth of its workforce despite turning a profit of €65m (£55.7m), according to its latest figures....

The CBI faces a deadline next September to refinance millions of pounds of funding put in place to avert its collapse during the autumn....

An Abu Dhabi state-backed vehicle has moved closer to taking full control of The Daily Telegraph just hours after the launch of a regulatory...

The CBI is urging members to swallow a further rise in fees even as the lobby group battles to regain its former standing among...

The government is to prohibit the removal or transfer of key Daily Telegraph journalists during a public interest probe into the newspaper’s prospective takeover...

Shareholders in Lloyds Banking Group could reap a windfall worth more than £500m early next year following a deal that will see it repaid...

House prices recorded a second month of growth in November, according to a closely-watched report. The Nationwide House Price Index showed average values were...

The culture secretary has launched an investigation into the takeover of The Daily Telegraph by a state-backed Abu Dhabi-based fund. An inquiry by communications...

Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a $1bn (£791m) class action lawsuit for his involvement in promoting non-fungible tokens. The Portuguese footballing legend had...

Even before Northern Rock collapsed and the financial crisis exploded, Alistair Darling was already wrangling with an unenviable inheritance as chancellor of the exchequer....