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Simon Coveney accuses British government of ‘deliberately forcing breakdown’ in negotiations over Northern Ireland

The UK could cut its total electricity usage by 1% if the top five British supermarkets put doors on fridges, campaigners have said.
Elon Musk on Saturday asked his 62.5 million followers on Twitter if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock.

More than half of licensed taxi drivers have not returned to the trade since the pandemic, the organisation representing the industry has said.

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has launched its next round of digital bootcamps to improve the digital capabilities of residents across the region.

A shortage of candidates is hitting firms’ recruitment plans and starting salaries for full-time and temporary staff have hit record levels, according to a report.

Most workers who were still on the government’s Covid-19 furlough scheme when it closed at the end of September returned to their employers, according to the…

Experts have assessed that £5 billion of state-backed government Covid-19 emergency loans are at risk of not being repaid, far less than feared due to the…

Shares in Metro Bank have surged after it received an approach about a possible takeover by the US private-equity group Carlyle.

Aston Martin’s losses widened in the third quarter of 2021 despite sales doubling year on year as it rolled out its new DBX sports utility vehicle…

The Bank of England has left official interest rates unchanged at 0.1%.

From walking tours in Bath to visiting the sweeping coastal scenery of Hartland Quay in Devon and stately Mapperton House in Dorset, hits from Bridgerton to…

Hundreds of thousands of businesses in England that appealed against their rates bills during the pandemic have yet to receive any relief from a £1.5 billion…

A Goldman Sachs-backed broadband infrastructure company is planning to launch further acquisitions to “crack open” the BT and Virgin Media O2 “weak duopoly” after raising £1.1…

Mini sales have plunged by 25 per cent as the worldwide computer chip shortage continues to cause problems for carmakers’ supply chains.