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Over 12 million people, and a million small businesses in the UK do not have the skills to prosper in the digital era. That is the warning today from Go.On UK, a charity set up to promote digital skills.

Trade body says scheme would add just £1 to bills by 2019 and comes in response to government plans to cut subsidies for rooftop solar panels by 87 per cent

Shift to more online business could see 1.1m British jobs created, and 300,000 made obsolete, according to new research

Britain’s biggest train operator has called for a radical shake-up of the system of rail franchising to introduce competition on services between London and Edinburgh.

Unions are to demand ministers take urgent action to save the UK steel industry at a crisis summit called after a major plant in Teesside closed.

The government is to look at ways of simplifying supermarket pricing but acknowledged that the industry has been taking steps to avoid misleading offers.

Here are this year’s ten most ludicrous reasons given when workers called in sick.

Britain’s biggest banks will have to run their retail banking operations as independent banks, almost entirely separate from their investment banking and overseas operations, as the Bank of England made it clear that there will be no relaxation of the incoming ring-fencing rules. As a result, regulators hope the high street lenders will be able to […]

Supermarket giant Tesco is selling off more than a dozen sites that it no longer wants to develop to a property company in a £250m deal.

The Insolvency Service is targeting businesses that fail to follow proper procedure when making staff redundant during an administration, marking a serious development for company directors.

Southern Solar is industry’s third high-profile casualty this month and founder Howard Johns is expected to blame government policy

Britain’s job-rich recovery continues as unemployment rate drops to seven-year low in August and proportion of people in employment climbs to highest since records began in the 1970s

A recent book finds that Steve Jobs, Sigmund Freud, and many other exceptional people had several habits and preferences in common.