Lucy Hooker

PA Chancellor Rachel Reeves will need to come up with billions of pounds more to meet the government’s pre-election promises, according to calculations by influential think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The government has promised no return to […]

Last December, a social media ad featured a pair of trainers against a plain white background and the caption “Now just £26 at Nike!” But when shoppers clicked through to find the shoes, they were only available in older children’s

PwC’s Chinese arm has been suspended from the country for six months over its work on the collapsed Chinese property giant Evergrande. The Big Four accountancy firm is also being fined more than $62m (£47m) after Chinese authorities said it

Getty Images The UK unexpectedly failed to grow in July, after flatlining in June, official figures showed. Analysts had forecast slight growth of 0.2% for the month of July. A summer of sport, including the Euros and the Olympics, helped

Barratt Developments, the UK’s largest housebuilder, saw a sharp drop in profits after it built far fewer homes last year. It completed just 14,000 in the year to June, compared to 17,000 for the previous 12 months, and says the

Leigh Day Helen Scarsbrook should not have been paid less than men working in Next’s warehouses, the tribunal found More than 3,500 current and former workers at Next have won the final stage of a six-year legal battle for equal

One of the UK’s largest mobile network providers is advising parents not to give primary school-aged children their own smartphone. EE, which is owned by BT, said it aims to improve children’s “digital wellbeing” after receiving increasing requests for guidance

Damion Bailey Damion Bailey says he likes the “challenge” of avoiding in-flight entertainment, films, books or music Last week, Damion Bailey posted on Instagram that he had just achieved his “personal best” – a 13-and-a-half hour flight between Shanghai and