Every spring thousands of seasonal workers come to harvest the UK's soft fruits, but this year they're coming. Before Brexit many people came from Poland, Romania and Bulgaria to harvest UK's fruits. Now, UK growers are employing people from...
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16th Apr 2024 | Updated at 05:33pm 16th Apr 2024
UK economy to shrink in 2023: IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advanced economies as the cost of living continues to hit households.
HMRC clarifies its stand on waiting times on self-assessment helpline
Officials working from home are not to blame for long waiting times on HM Revenue and Custom’s self-assessment helpline, the department has said.
There will be major disruption in Britain's train services in June and July as drivers are planning to join thousands of other rail workers on strike. Aslef, Britain's trade union for train drivers, announced strikes at three companies over...
The UK is currently in the grip of an “employment crisis”- there are 1.3 million job vacancies, and for the first time, there are not enough people looking for work to fill them. This is partly due to Brexit: it has “contributed to the exodus...
Rising petrol and diesel prices are putting pressure on household budgets, with energy bills and food prices also now at multi-year highs. The RAC motoring group called it "a truly dark day" as the cost of filling a 55-litre tank reached £100.27...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said April’s data showed UK's gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the size of the economy, fell by 0.3%...
The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rate from 1 to 1.25 per cent, its steepest rate hikes in 25 years, and is likely to keep going in the...
Staff shortage is affecting the aviation industry in UK and thousands of travellers are believed to have been stuck abroad after flight cancellations over the weekend. The problems are taking time to resolve and Advantage's chief executive warned...
RAC, the motoring body, said that the price of petrol surged by nearly 5p a litre in the week that included the bank holiday break. RAC says that it could soon hit 180p a litre.
CityFibre is one of dozens of alternative network providers, or altnets, that have been laying fibre lines, taking advantage of the slow pace at which monopoly BT was upgrading its network from copper. Over the past two years, as BT and Virgin...
Stefan Hoops, a protégé of Christian Sewing, Deutsche chief executive, will take over from Asoka Wöhrmann next week, inheriting a business being investigated by US and German authorities after a whistleblower accused DWS of misrepresenting how...
