Amy Ingham is a reporter at Business Matters, covering UK business news with a focus on breaking news, business policy, late payments and insolvency. She joined the magazine in 2026 after completing the NCTJ Diploma in Journalism at Harlow College's journalism school. Her recent reporting includes British Steel's nationalisation and its impact on SME suppliers, the decline in late payments by large firms, and Insolvency Service director disqualifications. Reach her at aingham@cbmeg.co.uk.
Tesla sales jump 84% in Europe as electric vehicles now account for more than one in five new cars registered. Germany overtakes UK on EV penetration.
Simply Business has become the first UK broker to launch a small business insurance app inside ChatGPT, giving sole traders and SMEs instant indicative quotes in…
British Business Bank commits £10m as cornerstone investor in Northern Gritstone's £20m rolling close, lifting the VC firm's permanent capital to £382m to back Northern deeptech…
Royal Mail unveils a £500m, five-year plan to tackle late deliveries, scrap Saturday second-class post and shift 6,000 part-time staff to full-time hours.
McDonald's UK unveils the country's largest in-person paid work experience programme, offering 2,500 placements to combat record youth unemployment and the rising NEET crisis.
UK inflation jumped to 3.3% in March 2026 as the Middle East conflict drove petrol, diesel and air fares higher. What it means for SMEs, interest…
Rolls-Royce has been crowned the nation's most iconic trade mark in a public poll marking 150 years since Britain became one of the first countries in…
Two 24-hour Tube strikes this week threaten London's SMEs and night-time economy, as RMT drivers walk out over TfL's proposed four-day working week.
Founders and advisers warn the latest hike in Business Asset Disposal Relief to 18% is squeezing entrepreneurs and pushing Britain's homegrown talent abroad.
Soaring energy costs and fractured supply chains are set to tip Britain to the edge of a technical recession by the summer, with smaller businesses bearing…
Meta is preparing to cut roughly 10% of its global workforce from May, with further redundancies later in 2026, as Mark Zuckerberg pours hundreds of billions…
There is a stage in entrepreneurship that many founders and senior leaders struggle to make sense of.
Chongqing-based EV manufacturer Seres has patented a voice-controlled in-vehicle toilet, as Chinese carmakers pile on novel features to survive a brutal price war.
Tesco chief Ken Murphy urges ministers to ease tax and energy costs as the grocer posts an 8.5% profit rise and widens guidance amid the Iran…
Richard Desmond's £1.3bn damages claim against the Gambling Commission over the fourth National Lottery licence awarded to Allwyn has been dismissed by the High Court.