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Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has bought a £22m stake in the fashion group Boohoo as the high street retail tycoon makes a flurry of investments in online retail.

The train drivers’ union Aslef has announced a week-long overtime ban at the start of July, which will further disrupt much of Britain’s railway.

Sales at the UK arm of Peloton have fallen after the end of Covid restrictions put the brakes on the interactive exercise bike firm’s lockdown boom.

Nearly three quarters of SMEs say their bank actively discriminates against them in favour of larger companies, according to new research.

Help for people struggling with their mortgages is being kept “under review”, cabinet minister Michael Gove has said.

The North West of England and West Midlands overtook the South East as the top destinations for foreign investment outside London last year.

Airbus is promising Britain’s first new helicopter factory in decades, bringing hundreds of new jobs and billions of pounds of exports if the Ministry of Defence chooses it to build a new generation of helicopters to replace the UK’s ageing fleet of Pumas.

The average mortgage rate for a two-year fixed deal has risen to above 6 per cent, according to financial analysts.

Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, has told ministers to step up work on seizing the opportunities of artificial intelligence in order to save money, boost Britain’s sluggish growth rate and reboot failing public services.

Outstanding student loans in England have surpassed £200bn for the first time – 20 years earlier than previous government forecasts, as the number of students at universities continues to outstrip expectations.

Television personality Jeremy Clarkson, famed for his role on ‘Clarkson’s Farm’, has recently achieved a significant win concerning his Diddly Squat Farm.

Company insolvencies in England and Wales last month rose by 40 per cent year-on-year to the highest level since monthly records began in January 2019.

Sir Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic says it will launch its first commercial flight before the end of this month.

The average UK business is spending over £50,000 every year on sending food waste to landfill, however, recycling food waste could save food retail businesses up to £7,000 a year, according to new research.