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Grocery delivery company Ocado reported increased sales but said it remains vulnerable to changing price pressures and currency movements.

‘Based on what I see in the data in this case, it is very unlikely that we are looking at a random pattern,’ Professor Alexander Kurov said.

Asda is offering staff a higher wage in exchange for a new contract which will introduce unpaid breaks and a requirement to work over Bank Holidays.

The tax burden on British households and businesses is on course to climb to a 40 year high by the end of the next parliament as slower growth and an ageing population forces policymakers to choose between more austerity or higher taxes.

Increased provision will cover rise in both number of claims and size of compensation payouts, following Supreme Court judgement on PPI complaints handling.

Business confidence among the UK’s private sector firms recovered to the strongest level since mid-2015, according to new figures.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone says it will create 2,100 jobs across the UK.

When Cabinet ministers gathered at No 10 on Wednesday morning for their 8am Budget briefing there was much cause for optimism.

Theresa May’s plans to rely on World Trade Organisation tariffs in the case of a hard Brexit will cause a “major economic shock” and is worse than any other option, according to an unpublished Treasury document

‘it is a myth that UK workers are always throwing sickies. We’re really a nation of mucus troopers’, said TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady

BT has struck a deal with the telecoms regulator Ofcom over the legal separation of Openreach, its network division.

The trial of Samsung’s de facto head Lee Jae-Yong on a string of corruption charges including bribery and embezzlement has begun in South Korea.

Demand from European fraud watchdog underlines challenges facing Theresa May as she heads to summit on Thursday

Troubled lender the Co-operative Bank said it was “engaging” with potential bidders after putting itself up for sale last month as the group revealed it remained deep in the red last year.

A Microsoft crash has locked thousands of email users have been locked out of their accounts today.