The Apollo EasyJet takeover bid, pitched at £7.15 per share and valuing the carrier at £5.7 billion (approximately $7.65 billion), has thrown Europe's airline M&A story wide open, upending an
A vape packaging crackdown launched by the UK government on 10 July 2026 would ban colourful branding, cartoon imagery, and sweet- or cocktail-inspired flavour names, with responses to the 12-week
Home exchange holidays, in which two households swap properties for a week or two with no money changing hands for accommodation, are drawing in more converts as the cost of
A Hull fuel price gap of more than 11p a litre between forecourts less than three miles apart has thrown a spotlight on a national compliance problem: thousands of petrol
The Bank of England's chief economist Huw Pill interest rates stance is hardening, and the rest of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had better start listening. Pill, who voted at
The Fapello age check fine handed down by Ofcom on 8 July 2026 totals £630,000, making it the latest escalation in the regulator's campaign to force pornography sites to comply
The case for Jackdaw gas field approval has been reduced to a stark arithmetic: the UK holds roughly eight days of gas storage, and the field 150 miles east of
The UK Government's official announcement of the Sizewell B life extension deal confirms the plant will keep generating electricity until 2055, adding 20 years to a station that opened in
San Francisco house prices have reached levels that would have seemed implausible even three years ago, and the force behind them is increasingly difficult to ignore: the extraordinary personal wealth
Unsafe baby products online, including self-feeding devices, sleep pillows and sleeping bags, are still listed across eight UK marketplaces despite official recalls and safety alerts, a Which? investigation has found.
Lost bank accounts in the UK represent a problem far larger than most people appreciate, with industry estimates from The Banker putting dormant funds at somewhere between £1 billion and
The Virgin Media Ofcom fine of £28 million, announced on 8 July 2026, is the largest Ofcom has ever issued under its consumer protection rules, and it caps a story
The holiday hunger bill Northern Ireland legislators are advancing through Stormont would, if passed, restore payments of £27 per child per fortnight to families during school holidays, payments axed by
Online gambling financial risk checks for high-spending customers are coming this summer, the Gambling Commission has confirmed, setting out a staged rollout that starts with the largest operators and the
The Iran war mortgage impact has proved more damaging to British household finances than the Bank of England anticipated just seven months ago, with forecasts now showing that just over