The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
The billionaire brothers who own Asda have invested into a fledgling zero-emission lorry company and plan to create Britain’s first network of hydrogen fuel stations to…
UK FinTech funding has dipped in the first half of 2023, as total cash raised by UK fintech firms reached $2.9 billion in the first six…
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will today set out a series of “Mansion House reforms” intended to channel tens of billions of pounds of Britain’s pensions savings into…
Academics from Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) have been awarded a £1.8million grant to accelerate the take up of digital technology amongst UK law and accountancy…
China's largest car manufacturer SAIC Motor says it will build its first factory in Europe, after sales of its vehicles on the continent jumped.
British businesses and individuals reported a suspicious email or website every five seconds in 2022, a new report from GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
British recorded music exports have defied increasing global competition to grow by a record amount in 2022 as UK artists dominate the year’s biggest global streaming…
The Bank of England may need to push interest rates to as high as 7% to tackle stubbornly high inflation, economists have warned, amid fears the…
Rail firms have announced plans for the mass closure of England’s ticket offices to “modernise” the railway, ramping up the battle with unions and infuriating disability…
The services sector expanded at its slowest pace in three months in June, but growth remained resilient despite rising interest rates and economic uncertainty weighing on…
Supermarket giant Iceland is to close even more stores following a string of closures this year.
Michael Gove has said people “expect” council staff to be working a full five-day week, amid a row over the government telling a local authority to…
The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge with the prime minster accused of betraying populations most…
Wm Morrison, the supermarket group, is planning to close one of its produce centres in Bradford, putting more than 450 jobs at risk.
Britain has been singled out as currently the least successful country in the G7 at curbing inflation and one of the three worst in the wider…