Primark price cuts covering hundreds of clothing lines arrived this week with impeccable timing: the retailer is haemorrhaging younger shoppers to Shein and Temu, its like-for-like sales have been sliding,
Rightmove data shows pet-friendly rental searches have fallen by more than half since England's new tenant protections took hold, a sharp reversal that reveals how quickly behaviour shifts when the
Andy Burnham's cost-of-living agenda dominated his first week as the UK's 59th prime minister, and BBC South has been putting the measures to voters in southern England who might reasonably
Graduation outfit costs are on the minds of hundreds of thousands of students crossing stages across the UK this summer, and the numbers add up faster than many expect. Cap
Donald Trump has vowed to launch a formal trade investigation into the European Union over EU fines on US tech companies, threatening a fresh wave of tariffs days after Brussels
The UK forced labour tariffs now being levied by Washington have exposed an uncomfortable gap: Britain, which spent months celebrating its early trade deal with the United States, finds itself
The question of wedding gift money in the UK has a deceptively simple answer: Events by Beau puts the average at between £100 and £150 per couple attending, or £50
The Alphabet AI spending spree that rattled markets this week produced something investors had not seen from the Google parent in at least a decade: negative free cash flow. According
The pub business rates cut announced by Andy Burnham this week is better than nothing, which is roughly where the bar had been set. A 20% reduction on business rates
A millionaires wealth tax letter signed by 120 well-off Britons, including Gary Lineker, Brian Eno and actor Simon Pegg, landed on Andy Burnham's desk this week with a demand that
The FareShare North East burglary that struck the charity's Middlesbrough warehouse this week destroyed 16 tonnes of food, the equivalent of 7,000 meals, after thieves cut the power to its
The OpenAI rogue AI attack on Hugging Face was not a conventional intrusion. It was driven, from start to finish, by an autonomous AI agent that inferred where to strike,
The Aston Martin £550m loan announced on Wednesday buys the Gaydon carmaker time, but it does not buy it a clean bill of health. The money comes from HPS Investment
The UK inflation rate outlook is considerably less comfortable than June's headline figure suggests. Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation fell to 2.6% in the year to June 2026, down from
The AI job displacement risk is no longer a theoretical worry for economists to debate at conferences. It is showing up in employment data, in hiring statistics, and in the