Taxpayers are on course to pay £40bn a year by 2028 as a result of the freeze on personal tax thresholds and inflation, new analysis suggests. The Resolution Foundation said the policy would lead to the country’s biggest tax rise ...
More pubs closed in London in the first six months of this year than anywhere else in England, a study has found. The capital lost 46 watering holes up to the end of June, according to data from real estate ...
More than 420,000 traditional retail jobs have been lost since 2010, sparking fears that the high street may be in ‘terminal decline’. New analysis by the GMB union shows that 420,242 traditional retail jobs have gone – a decline of ...
Falls in house prices will continue into next year, the UK’s biggest mortgage lender has said, although the rate of reduction has slowed. The Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that property prices were 4.7% lower in September than ...
There are a number of strategies you can utilise to improve your productivity at work. You could eat a beetroot breakfast, for instance—the vegetable is widely known as a performance enhancer because of how it can extend the time to ...
Metro Bank has clinched a £925 million funding deal last night that shores up the troubled lender but inflicts pain on its investors and leaves the group shouldering expensive borrowing costs. The agreement, which will hand the Colombian billionaire Jaime ...
Manufacturers have urged Jeremy Hunt to do away with the autumn statement, insisting that the constant “flip-flopping” on policy is holding back investment and is making the UK “uncompetitive”. The chancellor gives two fiscal statements a year, the budget in ...
Waitrose is reportedly in talks with Amazon to sell groceries via the internet marketplace, in an attempt to lure in more shoppers and claw back market share. The Sunday Telegraph reported that the upmarket supermarket, part of the John Lewis ...
WASHINGTON – The United States will send multiple military ships and aircraft closer to Israel as a show of support, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, with Washington believing Hamas’ deadly attacks may have been motivated to disrupt a potential normalizing of Israel-Saudi Arabia ties. Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli towns as the country suffered its bloodiest day in ...
JERUSALEM/GAZA – Hamas‘ assault on Israel drove oil prices higher on Monday as markets priced in fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East, a day after Israel pounded the Palestinian enclave of Gaza in retaliation for one of the bloodiest attacks in its history. Fighters from Islamist ...