
Mortgage approvals jump in post-election boost for housing market
Banks approved the highest number of mortgages in more than four years last month, offering further evidence of a post-election boost in the housing market.
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Banks approved the highest number of mortgages in more than four years last month, offering further evidence of a post-election boost in the housing market.

Talking about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.

The dominant operator in the UK's guarantor loan market has put itself up for sale.

Small businesses are being conned out of £2bn by rogue “energy brokers” who lock them into long-term bad-value gas and electricity contracts, according to documents submitted…

Bonded Warehouse, the latest space within Enterprise City, a 2 million square foot tech, media and cultural cluster, has opened its doors to small and medium…

For a short time, millions of gamers felt as though the sky were falling.

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More than 400 employees have launched an equal pay claim against the Co-op supermarket chain in the latest retail pay battle.

Morrisons says it is creating 7,000 new shop-floor jobs - but that 3,000 managers will either leave the company or have their roles downgraded.

Lloyds has told almost 200 former customers that it will forgive debts collectively worth tens of millions of pounds in recognition of mistakes it made over…

Nissan is to provide thousands of discounted electric vehicles to British Uber drivers in a boost for the carmaker’s Sunderland plant.

Manufacturers have declared themselves more bullish about the future than at any time in the past six years, despite output tumbling and expansion constrained by labour…

Parents who lose a child will receive two weeks paid bereavement leave under new government rules.

About 57,000 retail workers lost their jobs last year, according to an assessment that underscores the problems on Britain’s high streets.

Hundreds of jobs are being shed at the Range Rover Evoque factory at Halewood on Merseyside as the recession in the British motor industry bites.