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Shell aims to install 50,000 on-street EV charge points by 2025
Shell has announced its aim to install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the UK over the next four years
Tuesday 27 October 2026
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Shell has announced its aim to install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the UK over the next four years
Scotland is to trial a four-day week, but without a loss of pay. A report out today includes some ideas for how it could be done,…
Confidence among Britain's SMEs remains strong with almost eight out of ten saying they are expecting a boost in trade over the coming three months now…
UK homeowners made a rare net repayment of mortgage debt in July as the tapering of the stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland fuelled…
Downing Street has said the government will press ahead with plans to introduce vaccine passports for nightclubs and other crowded indoor venues in England from the…
The furlough scheme should be extended to protect workers in industries that continue to be damaged by the pandemic, business groups and unions have said as…
Stratford-upon-Avon is reviving a traditional recruitment drive dating from medieval times to help ease the modern squeeze on hospitality workers in the region.
It is a balmy summer's evening in central London, but at one restaurant the Christmas party season is already in full swing.
Britons are facing a multibillion savings shortfall, despite many putting away extra cash during the pandemic, according to a new report.
UK business confidence has hit a four-year high, thanks to growing optimism about the post-Covid recovery, but companies highlighted concerns about staff shortages, which could push…
The government should create four more bank holidays to improve the “stingy” entitlement that UK workers have in comparison with other countries, the Trades Union Congress…
The national roll-out of the new £100 spending limit for contactless card payments will begin from 15 October 2021, UK Finance announces today.
Payments using contactless cards surged as the UK emerged from lockdowns and consumers started spending again.
The UK has lost 83% of its main department stores in the five years since the collapse of the BHS chain.
A 12-year-old boy from London has made about £290,000 during the school holidays, after creating a series of pixelated artworks called Weird Whales and selling non-fungible…