Category: News

The fourth round of companies to be awarded grants from the UK Games Fund has been announced today.

Metro Bank has announced its intention to carry out a share issue of up to £302m as profits almost quadrupled year-on-year in the first half, driven by continued strong growth in deposits.

Women are nearly twice as likely to comfort eat in order to deal with stress than men, according to new research.

The director of a company that operated a Japanese-Chinese restaurant in Glasgow has been disqualified for hiring an illegal worker.

The boss of Amazon UK has warned that a no-deal Brexit could lead to “civil unrest”.

Facebook has announced that it has suspended Boston-based analytics firm Crimson Hexagon while it investigates how it collects and shares Facebook and Instagram’s user data.

A group of landlords is going to court over the rescue plan for House of Fraser saying it treated them unfairly.

The pound has fallen under $1.30 after a surprise fall in retail sales in June, confounding expectations of an increase.

Burberry, the upmarket British fashion label, destroyed unsold clothes, accessories and perfume worth £28.6m last year to protect its brand.

Poundworld has announced the closure of its remaining 190 stores with the loss of 2,339 jobs.

Royal Mail is facing mounting anger over its decision to hand its new chief executive nearly £6million and allow him to run the business while living in Switzerland.

About 1,500 jobs are at risk after the Gaucho restaurant group said it intended to appoint administrators.

AstraZeneca is to increase its stockpiles of drugs by about a fifth in preparation after European regulator tells companies to be ready for a possible hard Brexit in April 2019.

Google will learn if it faces a record fine over its Android operating system today.

NatWest and Lombard provided a £6m asset finance package to fund construction expenses for a new rollercoaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, which has officially opened to the public.