UK families have suffered the sharpest fall in the amount of cash available with them to spend for almost eight years due to high inflation and rising energy bills. The index, which measures households’ overall perceptions of financial wellbeing,...
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24th Oct 2026 | Updated at 05:51pm 24th Oct 2026
YOUR FIRST HOME
For many aspiring homeowners, the biggest obstacle to buying a property is not necessarily earning enough to cover the monthly mortgage payments. It is finding the money for a deposit in the first place.
From ‘nonsense idea’ to £42m: Mother-son duo build women’s health brand
A women’s health and nutrition business whose founders were once laughed out of investor meetings has grown into a £42 million company, with ambitions to more than double sales within two years.
The Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders has said he wanted more information about the impact of the new Coronavirus variant - Omicron, before deciding how to vote this month. He said it might slow the British economy, however, it could...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to cut income tax by 2 pence to the pound or slash rates of Value Added Tax (VAT) before the next election, says a...
A prominent survey reveals high export sales have helped the UK services sector record another strong month of recovery. The IHS Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for UK services gave the industry reading of 58.5 in November, a modest...
Six more energy firms in UK face closure before Christmas, thereby throwing hundreds of thousands of households on the brink of losing their energy supplier....
A UK think tank has said that all-night city rest centres should provide night-time workers with “dignity” and shelter from bad weather. In a new report, Autonomy called on employers to collaborate with local authorities to fund safe spaces...
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has said that the business model used by collapsed supply chain financing firm Greensill Capital is causing a “high...
Lord Rose of Monewden, 72, the former boss of Marks & Spencer, has been appointed as the chairman of supermarket chain Asda. Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who own Asda, has been in search for the chairman's post following the departure of Roger Burnley...
Bina Mehta, the chairwoman of KPMG UK, will continue in her post till 2014 as the partners wanted stability after the furore that led to the resignation...
The National Audit Office (NAO) warned recently that the government has “limited assurance” over whether the Kickstart scheme, aimed at 16 to 24-year olds,...
