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Trade body blames Brexit uncertainty and confusion over air quality plans after sales of new diesel cars fall by more than a fifth.

Britain’s retailers have been treated to an Indian summer of sales with the high street enjoying its best September sales for five years, according to new figures from BDO.

Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary has written to the airline’s pilots to offer them better pay and conditions.

Greggs today posted five per cent growth in like-for-like third-quarter sales.

Ryanair says it flew 11.8 million people in September, 10 per cent more than in the same month in 2016, despite the disruption caused by cancelled flights.

Britain’s banks need to set aside another £116bn in debt that can be “bailed in” should they get into financial trouble in order to avoid a repeat of the costly bail-outs that occurred during the credit crunch in 2008.

Directors refused to deal with multimillion-pound gap in accounts even though it was ‘spiralling out of control’, says SFO lawyer.

Efforts are continuing to bring back passengers of Monarch Airlines after the carrier went into administration.

Britain’s biggest tobacco distributor is on the brink of securing the future of its 4,000 workers after two giant cigarette-makers agreed to pump in millions of pounds of emergency funding.

Consumers have defied expectations that their economic confidence would falter and cause a slowdown in spending, according to figures released today. 

Transformation from loss-making smartphone maker to software firm continues as quarterly profits rise and yearly outlook is ‘robust’.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has reiterated his expectation that the bank will raise interest rates soon.

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Theresa May has threatened a trade war with the US after it slapped punitive tariffs on British-built aircraft, casting doubt on a key plank of her Brexit strategy.

Uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi has apologised to Londoners for “mistakes we have made” and acknowledged that the company “must change”.