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Flash interiors, fancy food and maybe even a bar: Virgin has unveiled a mock-up of its future cross-Channel train, with a pledge to create “something genuinely new”.
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Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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The Cross-Market Operational Resilience Group (CMORG) yesterday (8 October 2026) completed its biennial simulation exercise, known as SIMEX26, focused this year on a global cloud services disruption.
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Employee had also been in Bali when he told his manager he was working from home, Fair Work Commission hears
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The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced an enforcement action against American Express Company to address, among other things, the firm's failure to sufficiently detect and report certain suspicious activity rel…
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Complaints risks putting defence ministry on collision course with Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Closure will cost at least 60 jobs, while Leeds and Bristol outlets to be converted to Flannels brand
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The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, has urged the chancellor, John Healey, to agree a budget that convinces financial markets after the UK’s medium-term borrowing costs hit a fresh 19-year high.
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The FCA has set out clearer expectations for asset managers about long-term investments, such as property.
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Competition watchdog clears takeover despite concerns that suppliers will have less incentive to lower bills
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Asos hackers gained access to millions of customers’ recent search histories as well as names, addresses and phone numbers, the online fashion retailer has revealed.
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Regulator also vetoes extra Blackpool service, saying insufficient space for new direct trains to LondonBusiness live – latest updatesPlans to run direct train services to Wrexham and Rochdale from London have been reje…
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Ms Schnabel started her presentation with the observation that, since the Governing Council’s monetary policy meeting on 22-23 July 2026, euro area financial markets had continued to be driven by energy price developmen…
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Corporate finance firms help businesses raise funding and implement strategic transactions, supporting investment and growth.
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Oil prices have risen sharply amid fears about escalating tensions in the Middle East and a squeeze on production from the threat of a hurricane off the US coast.
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Not at all. Perhaps some people initially feared that the aim of the digital euro was to replace cash. But that is not the case. The ECB’s work to develop and ultimately introduce a new series of euro banknotes with dif…
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Move expected to make pump pricing more transparent and encourage competition after diesel hits record £2 a litre
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The Atlantic puffin, barn owl, buff-tailed bumblebee and European hedgehog will represent UK wildlife and feature as the central images on our next series of banknotes.
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The UK needs to do more back its own companies at a time when a growing number are choosing to list their shares in the US rather than at home, the boss of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has told the BBC.
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Party hopes to win over affluent middle-class voters as leader rejects calls to ‘unite the right’ in conference speech
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Banknotes are getting a nature makeover - and the Bank of England has revealed the four creatures that will feature on our money.
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The minutes back a hawkish read of the Fed path, keeping a further hike at the 27-28 October meeting or in December firmly in play and supporting front-end Treasury yields. The explicit link between prolonged high energ…
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TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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