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The future of the Manor Formula One team is in the hands of its owner, Ovo Energy boss Stephen Fitzpatrick, according to its latest accounts.

David Cameron will insist that the Government’s welfare reforms will create a fairer Britain by boosting social mobility and economic opportunity in a speech today.

There has been a strong improvement in small business confidence, suggesting the sector will grow this year, the Federation of Small Businesses says.

Celebrity cooks Nigella Lawson and Yotam Ottolenghi have joined forces with Jamie Oliver and 15 other top chefs, restauranteurs and food writers to back a new project to turn London’s disused spaces into pop-up food markets.

The burger chain that put “supersize” into the American vernacular is slimming down: For the first time in more than 40 years, and perhaps ever, McDonald’s says the number of US restaurants it has is shrinking.

Shares in the wearable technology company Fitbit have soared nearly 50% on their first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

A generation of workers is expecting to have to get by on an annual retirement income that is thousands of pounds lower than that currently enjoyed by pensioners, according to a report.

The technology giant Google is drawing up secret plans to gatecrash the auction of Tesco’s customer loyalty arm by exploring a joint takeover bid with one of the UK’s biggest buyout firms.

Sales at chain that began as a Lincolnshire market stall climb nearly 12% to £1.1bn as rise of the discounters continues

“Self-interested” rivals have come under fire from BT and EE for opposing their proposed merger, accused by the telecoms groups of using “innuendo” to try to derail the deal.

British wages may be rising even faster than official data show

Costa Coffee’s continued growth has helped its parent company Whitbread deliver a 4.3% sales growth for the first quarter.

Punters backed bookie Ladbrokes, up 5p to 122p, as Morgan Stanley turned buyer from its previous hold stance with a 150p price target.

Royal Mail faces the threat of more restrictions on raising postage prices as part of an investigation announced only five days after the government offloaded £750 million of shares in the group.