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Fraudsters trying to steal money from people’s pension funds are increasingly offering to invest the cash into other scams, says Citizens Advice.

The UK high street has endured its worst summer in six years, as volatile weather and the lure of restaurants and holidays kept shoppers away.

Household spending on communications services has risen for the first time in at least five years as more people pay extra to upgrade superfast broadband and subscribe to pay-TV for the first time.

BP plans to pour an extra £670 million into ageing oilfields in the North Sea.

Discount supermarket Aldi has announced plans to hire 8,000 more staff and open 130 new stores as part of a £600m UK expansion.

Smartphones have edged ahead of laptops for the first time as the preferred devices for connecting online in the UK, a report by Ofcom says.

Spain emerged as the best performer of the eurozone’s big four economies last month as the single currency area largely shrugged off the impact of the Greek debt crisis.

The “mum economy” – the businesses run by mothers with children aged 18 or under – is thriving in the UK, generating £7.2bn for the nation’s coffers and supporting 204,000 jobs last year.

Just Eat is kicking hundreds of British restaurants off its online takeaway ordering platform because of their poor service.

Walt Disney shares fell by more than 6 per cent after-hours after the entertainment firm’s latest revenues came in below market forecasts.

UK economic growth is set to slow down in the third quarter, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said, lowering a previous estimate.

Mayors and local councils are to be given new powers to relax Sunday trading laws for high street stores to allow them to compete with large out-of-town shopping centres and online retailers.

HSBC could still leave the UK despite tax changes designed to make London a more welcome home for the bank, its chairman and finance director said, as they consider moving the giant bank’s headquarters to Asia.

Heineken is hoping to convert its sponsorship of the Rugby World Cup into a rebound in UK sales after suffering a high single-digit fall in volumes in Britain during the first half of the year.

A £760m contract to update the Tube’s signalling and controls has been awarded to French engineering giant Thales.