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UK borrowing slips to four-year low but Middle East tensions threaten Reeves’s fiscal plan

UK borrowing slips to four-year low but Middle East ten...

UK government borrowing dropped to £12.6bn in March, a four-year low, as debt i...

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McDonald’s bets on Britain’s youth with UK’s biggest paid work experience scheme

McDonald’s bets on Britain’s youth with UK’s biggest pa...

McDonald's UK unveils the country's largest in-person paid work experience prog...

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Royal Mail commits £500m to fix delivery failures as Kretinsky era takes shape

Royal Mail commits £500m to fix delivery failures as Kr...

Royal Mail unveils a £500m, five-year plan to tackle late deliveries, scrap Sat...

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Disabled consumers must shape AI from the start, business leaders warned

Disabled consumers must shape AI from the start, busine...

New Business Disability Forum poll finds 40% of disabled UK adults say involvin...

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Mobile operators warn of signal rationing as energy costs spiral

Mobile operators warn of signal rationing as energy cos...

UK mobile operators VodafoneThree, Virgin Media O2 and EE warn they may ration ...

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How resilient leaders help their teams thrive through change

How resilient leaders help their teams thrive through c...

Resilience is one of those words that gets used a lot in business. But when you...

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Unemployment dip flatters to deceive as SME hiring freezes amid Iran shock

Unemployment dip flatters to deceive as SME hiring free...

UK unemployment unexpectedly drops to 4.9% in the quarter to February, but vaca...

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Bezos’s physical AI lab Prometheus nears $10bn raise at $38bn valuation

Bezos’s physical AI lab Prometheus nears $10bn raise at...

Jeff Bezos's physical AI venture Project Prometheus is closing in on a $10bn fu...

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Barclays and Lloyds join FCA’s second AI sandbox as banks race to prove their tech credentials

Barclays and Lloyds join FCA’s second AI sandbox as ban...

Barclays and Lloyds have joined the FCA's second AI live testing cohort alongsi...

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Reeves tightens windfall tax on renewables as ministers move to sever gas-electricity link

Reeves tightens windfall tax on renewables as ministers...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves lifts the electricity generator levy from 45% to 55% a...

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HMRC appeals tribunal ruling that would slash VAT on public EV chargers to 5%

HMRC appeals tribunal ruling that would slash VAT on pu...

HMRC to appeal tribunal ruling that public EV charging should attract 5% VAT, n...

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Britain to ‘flirt’ with recession as Iran oil shock rattles SMEs

Britain to ‘flirt’ with recession as Iran oil shock rat...

Soaring energy costs and fractured supply chains are set to tip Britain to the ...

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BADR hike branded a ‘tax-grabbing assault’ as Britain’s founders eye the exit

BADR hike branded a ‘tax-grabbing assault’ as Britain’s...

Founders and advisers warn the latest hike in Business Asset Disposal Relief to...

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Tube strike chaos piles fresh pressure on London’s beleaguered night-time economy

Tube strike chaos piles fresh pressure on London’s bele...

Two 24-hour Tube strikes this week threaten London's SMEs and night-time econom...

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Aston Martin takes its 17pc shareholder Geely to court over ‘copycat’ wings logo

Aston Martin takes its 17pc shareholder Geely to court ...

Aston Martin is taking legal action against Chinese part-owner Geely over a win...

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Cook hands Apple’s reins to Ternus as engineering chief prepares for top job

Cook hands Apple’s reins to Ternus as engineering chief...

Tim Cook will become Apple's executive chairman on 1 September 2026, with hardw...