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Inflation drops back to zero in August amid a renewed fall in oil prices

Plans to tighten rules on trade union strike ballots in Britain are to be debated in Parliament for the first time later – amid warnings of industrial and legal action.

Business confidence stalls as new evidence shows UK growth becoming more reliant on consumer spending

Feel the Force: the iconic franchise, which is being filmed at Pinewood Studios, contributed £147.6m in costs

It turns out, not all group think is bad.

The disappearance of Phones4u has helped Dixons Carphone to a strong start to the year as it attracted more customers.

Plans to shut 11 Morrisons supermarkets and Waitrose’s first sales dip in seven years show that pressure on big grocers is increasing

Oversupply is only likely to get worse once sanctions on Iran are lifted, flooding the oil market

Lord Wolfson says the clothing retailer will have to raise prices to offset the cost of implementing the new minimum wage of £7.20

The British state is selling £62bn of financial assets, including shares in RBS and Lloyds, but it will still control more than 50 firms without any central governance, says the National Audit Office

Ofcom opens investigation into Openreach delays

AGR says women must be ‘actively encouraged’ to apply to UK grad schemes as proportion of female hires remains stagnant for last five years

Oil industry bosses will hold crisis talks today about the future of the North Sea, after new figures showed up to 65,000 jobs have been lost in the UK since international crude prices collapsed last year.