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The government will not defend the legal challenges brought against plans to develop the UK’s largest untapped oil and gas field and a second North Sea...

Smoking could be banned in pub gardens, outdoor restaurants and outside stadiums, according to reports. The measures are currently being considered by...

Pavel Durov, the chief executive of Telegram, has been charged with allegedly allowing criminal activity on the messaging app. French judges have barred Mr...

The water industry has warned that firms will be unable to deliver reforms such as stopping sewage outflows without even greater bill rises, with crisis-hit...

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

The water industry has warned that firms will be unable to deliver reforms such as stopping sewage outflows without even greater bill rises, with crisis-hit...

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

The water industry has said that without even greater bill rises, firms will be unable to deliver reforms to stop sewage outflows. The dire warnings were...

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 in the UK, days after its...

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

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 in August than a year ago...

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

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

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 them up for...

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 American payments...

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