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The number of new cars registered in the UK has jumped by nearly 18% but electric vehicle demand is flatlining, prompting the industry to call for a VAT cut to stimulate sales.

The Yorkshire city of Sheffield is to get a new competitor rail service to London, promising faster travel times than the existing trains.

One of the world’s largest insurance companies has been forced to pay thousands of pounds in interest to small businesses whose Covid insurance payout claims were delayed.

HSBC has become the first leading bank to cut mortgage rates below 4 per cent as a new year price war between lenders gathers pace.

SpaceX has launched the first set of Starlink satellites capable of providing network coverage directly from space to standard smartphones in a service designed to eliminate global “dead zones”.

Next has raised its profit forecast for the fifth time in less than a year after reporting better-than-expected sales in the run-up to Christmas.

Keir Starmer has said he is “fundamentally opposed” to axing or reducing inheritance tax, as he made a landmark speech before a widely-expected general election.

The government has sold 1.03 per cent of its shares in Natwest as it continues to quietly reduce its stake in the bank.

Shipping giant Maersk said Tuesday it will pause operations in the Red Sea “until futher notice” after another attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen over the weekend.

Eurostar has received a scolding from the UK’s advertising watchdog after misleading passengers over the price of ticket fares on routes to and from London.

Rachel Reeves is weighing up plans to offer income tax or national insurance cuts in Labour’s general election manifesto to show that the party is on the side of “opportunity and aspiration”.

HSBC is stepping up its battle to lure customers away from digital upstarts such as Revolut and Wise with the launch of a foreign exchange payments app to spend, send and convert international currencies.

Google and the University of Cambridge have entered a multi-year research partnership focusing on responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI), with the goal of investigating the potential positive impacts on society such as tackling climate change.

China’s BYD has taken the lead over Tesla as the top electric car maker worldwide.