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UK inflation hits 9.1% in May as fuel, energy and food costs continue to climb
Prices are continuing to rise at their fastest rate for 40 years as fuel, energy and food costs continue to climb.
Sunday 25 October 2026
The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Prices are continuing to rise at their fastest rate for 40 years as fuel, energy and food costs continue to climb.
Some Asda shoppers are setting £30 limits at checkouts and petrol pumps, the supermarket's chairman has said.
The union representing staff at Royal Mail have said they will hold a ballot that could lead to even more strike action over pay, adding to the…
Visa and Mastercard are to be investigated after raising fees more than fivefold on some cross-border transactions since Britain left the European Union.
The Government could be forced to pay a compensation bill as big as the entire defence budget if a legal challenge launched today over the rejigging…
A major outage at content delivery network Cloudflare caused hundreds of websites across the internet to stop working and return a '500 Internal Server error' message…
The quadrupling of interest rates since December has tipped thousands of companies into insolvency, with a 30 per cent spike in the last three months.
More than 14,000 staff at Rolls Royce will be given a £2,000 one-off payment to help with the rising cost of living in the UK.
People struggling with the soaring cost of living are cutting back on food and car journeys to save money.
Millions of people ranging from commuters to people heading to Glastonbury Festival will be affected by this week's rail strikes.
The Bank of England has confirmed that it will ditch its mortgage stress test from August, despite five successive interest rate rises and the largest forecast…
The Treasury will tighten regulation of “buy-now, pay-later” schemes following warnings that the loans are sending shoppers into debt.
LADY Cobham, the daughter-in-law of the founder of the defence giant Cobham, has warned the UK government it cannot afford to allow British defence firms to…
A Treasury minister has warned employees not to expect their wages to rise along with the soaring rate of inflation.
More than 6.5 million people plan to quit their jobs within the next year as they search for better pay and benefits and an improved work/life…