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Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs
April borrowing surges to £24.3bn as debt interest bill breaks month record
Jaguar Land Rover eyes American tie-up with Stellantis to sidestep Trump tariffs
Labour eyes £1bn VAT raid on airport charges in stealth blow to family holidays
Blame the system, not the school leavers for youth unemployment, says Amazon’s UK boss
Potters win £120m rescue as government finally backs Britain’s ceramics heartland
Reeves serves up summer of savings with VAT cut on family days out
Andrew trade envoy files: Queen ‘very keen’ ex-prince led UK plc abroad, Whitehall papers reveal
HS2 reset to punch £33bn black hole in Britain’s public finances
Youth jobs in retreat: IFS warns Britain is sliding back to Covid-era lows

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Spring Statement to the House of Commons under the shadow of escalating conflict in the Middle East and mounting fears of a renewed inflation shock driven by surging energy prices.

UK borrowing slips to four-year low but Middle East tensions threaten Reeves’s fiscal plan

23 April 202623 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Tesla’s grip on the European electric vehicle market weakened dramatically last month, with new figures showing a 49 per cent drop in sales across 32 European countries compared with April 2024 — a sharp contrast to the overall EV sector, which posted a 28 per cent year-on-year rise.

Tesla accelerates European comeback as EV sales surge past one-in-five milestone

23 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

OpenAI has launched a powerful new AI assistant feature for ChatGPT that allows users to delegate everyday tasks like browsing the web, making restaurant reservations, and shopping online—marking a major leap in AI’s ability to act, not just analyse.

Simply Business becomes first UK broker to put small business cover inside ChatGPT

23 April 202624 April 2026 In Business, Technology Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Josie Zayner, a prominent figure in the biohacking community, often captures the public imagination with experiments that test the limits of self-directed genetic engineering.

British Business Bank anchors Northern Gritstone’s £20m rolling close as northern deeptech push gathers pace

23 April 202623 April 2026 Get Funded, News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Royal Mail has put a £500 million price tag on rescuing its battered reputation for on-time delivery, unveiling a five-year recovery plan that will see Saturday second-class post wound down from May and thousands of part-time posties asked to take on full-time hours.

Royal Mail commits £500m to fix delivery failures as Kretinsky era takes shape

22 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

With the number of young Britons not in education, employment or training (NEET) closing in on the one million mark, McDonald's UK has stepped into the breach with what it claims is the largest in-person work experience programme the country has ever seen.

McDonald’s bets on Britain’s youth with UK’s biggest paid work experience scheme

22 April 202622 April 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

British small and medium-sized enterprises are facing a fresh squeeze on margins after official figures revealed inflation jumped to 3.3 per cent in March, the first hard evidence of how the Middle East conflict is feeding through to the real economy.

Inflation climbs to 3.3% as middle east conflict drives up fuel bills for Britain’s SMEs

22 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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 the world to formalise the protection of brands, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has announced.

Rolls-Royce tops the list as Britain’s trade mark register turns 150

22 April 202622 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Commuters across Britain are bracing for further travel disruption as train drivers at 16 rail companies and London Underground tube drivers have announced strike action for next month.

Tube strike chaos piles fresh pressure on London’s beleaguered night-time economy

20 April 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Founders and advisers warn the latest hike in Business Asset Disposal Relief to 18% is squeezing entrepreneurs and pushing Britain's homegrown talent abroad.

BADR hike branded a ‘tax-grabbing assault’ as Britain’s founders eye the exit

20 April 2026 Finance, News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The higher cost of borrowing is weighing heavily on bank lending in a sign that the UK economy may be facing a recession due to the Bank of England’s interest rate hikes.

Britain to ‘flirt’ with recession as Iran oil shock rattles SMEs

20 April 202620 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Meta to axe 8,000 jobs in May as Zuckerberg bets the house on AI

19 April 202619 April 2026 News, Social Media, Technology Amy Ingham 0 Comments

There is a stage in entrepreneurship that many founders and senior leaders struggle to make sense of.

Why ADHD and entrepreneurship can drive success and create challenges in equal measure

17 April 2026 Opinion Amy Ingham 0 Comments

New car sales in the UK surged to their highest February level in more than two decades, highlighting continued recovery in the automotive market. However, industry figures show the transition to electric vehicles is losing momentum, with the market share of fully electric cars falling for the second consecutive month.

Seres files patent for voice-activated in-car toilet as china’s EV makers battle for attention

17 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Warehouse workers and and drivers at Tesco are to hold a series of strikes over pay which their trade union says could result in shortages in stores.

Tesco urges ministers to ease cost burden as Iran conflict clouds outlook

17 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Morrisons is preparing to pull down the shutters on 100 loss-making convenience stores in a move that places hundreds of shop-floor jobs in jeopardy, with the Bradford-based grocer pointing the finger squarely at Labour's tax and wage agenda for tipping the sites into terminal decline.

Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs

Morrisons is closing 100 loss-making convenience stores, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, and has blamed Labour’s “policy choices” for the rising costs eroding profitability.

April borrowing surges to £24.3bn as debt interest bill breaks month record

Jaguar Land Rover eyes American tie-up with Stellantis to sidestep Trump tariffs

Labour eyes £1bn VAT raid on airport charges in stealth blow to family holidays

Blame the system, not the school leavers for youth unemployment, says Amazon’s UK boss

Potters win £120m rescue as government finally backs Britain’s ceramics heartland

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