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Taxpayers may recover an extra £6 billion in repayments from emergency Covid-19 support loans if the government uses debt collection bodies to work closely with borrowers…
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Taxpayers may recover an extra £6 billion in repayments from emergency Covid-19 support loans if the government uses debt collection bodies to work closely with borrowers…

Liquidators to Patisserie Valerie have launched a £200 million legal claim against Grant Thornton, auditor of the cake chain that collapsed amid a suspected fraud.

Bitcoin nudged the $40,000 level yesterday at $39,999, helping to inflate the value of the cryptocurrency market above $1 trillion for the first time.

A last-minute rush for smaller turkeys after Christmas Covid rules were tightened and a boom in online grocery deliveries has boosted J Sainsbury’s profit expectations.

British Gas engineers will launch a five-day strike from Thursday in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration amid struggling sales.

Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.

New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.

Honda has blamed international supply problems after temporarily halting some operations at its plant in Swindon.

A leading Wall Street bank has predicted that bitcoin will more than quadruple in value if investors ultimately embrace it as an alternative to gold.

The price of Chinese products sold on Amazon and eBay has jumped after tougher tax rules came into force on January 1.

UK lenders approved more than 100,000 mortgages in November, the most in 13 years.

Some EU specialist online retailers have said they will no longer deliver to the UK because of tax changes which came into force on 1 January.

Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.

Thermal compaction technology developed in Wales is set to help the U.S. Navy reduce the waste produced by its fleet by up to 75%.