Tom Espiner

The UK is to announce five new freeports and a new investment zone in the Budget next week as part of a bid to boost economic growth. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it is part of a plan to […]

A man who was twice homeless as a teenager before becoming a multimillionaire entrepreneur has topped a list celebrating influential black Britons. Dean Forbes, who, after failing to make it as a professional footballer, began his career in a call

The outgoing boss of the Post Office has said its leadership were “part in denial, part in paralysis” about issues with the IT system behind the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub-postmasters when he joined in 2019. Nick Read said

China has imposed duties on imports of European brandy in a move that France has said is retaliation for recent big tariffs the EU announced on Chinese electric vehicles. The European Commission said it would challenge China’s tax at the

Getty Images Customers of retail bank TSB have taken to social media to say they have had problems with payments not going through to their accounts. Many said they had not received their child benefit on Tuesday, while others said

BBC They are two competing views on where desk-based employees work best. Amazon is ordering its staff back to the office five days a week, just as the government is pushing for rights to flexible working – including working from

Getty Images A shop workers’ union has won a Supreme Court battle against Tesco over so-called “fire and rehire” plans put forward by the supermarket giant. The row erupted in 2021 after Tesco proposed firing staff at some distribution centres