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UK business leaders and innovators honoured in 2026 New...

A detailed look at the UK business executives, entrepreneurs and industry innov...

Top UK business honourees of the past decade

Over the past ten years, the New Year and Birthday Honours have increasingly re...

UK electricity demand rises for second year running as ...

UK electricity demand has risen for a second consecutive year for the first tim...

£10m in late payments recovered for small firms by Smal...

The Office of the Small Business Commissioner has helped recover £10m in late p...

A third of UK businesses plan AI investment in 2026 as ...

A third of UK businesses plan to invest in AI in 2026, according to Lloyds’ Bus...

Dua Lipa and Shania Twain help Glastonbury lift profits...

Glastonbury Festival has reported profits of £7.7m for 2025 after headline perf...

UK set to become world’s fifth-largest economy by 2040,...

The UK is forecast to overtake Japan to become the world’s fifth-largest econom...

Boxing Day sales set to fall by £1bn as cost-of-living ...

UK Boxing Day sales are forecast to fall by £1bn this year as cost-of-living pr...

UK firms scale back Pride support as corporate DEI retr...

UK companies are sharply reducing public support for Pride, mirroring a US-led ...

The Museum of Failure is coming to the UK – and Britain...

The Museum of Failure is coming to the UK, showcasing iconic British flops from...

Leonardo warns it could exit UK helicopter manufacturin...

Leonardo has warned it could withdraw from UK helicopter manufacturing if it fa...

Edinburgh startup secures £750k to build robots that cl...

A UK maritime robotics startup led by a 22-year-old founder has raised more tha...

Jacket potatoes are back as TikTok star SpudBros plots ...

Family-run SpudBros, the TikTok-famous jacket potato brand, is planning a UK ex...

Firms hit by sharp slowdown in activity as confidence w...

UK businesses have suffered a sharp fall in activity and expect the downturn to...

UK job vacancies fall for fifth month as employers rein...

UK job vacancies fell again in November, marking a fifth consecutive monthly de...

EU waters down plans to end new petrol and diesel car s...

The European Commission has diluted plans to ban new petrol and diesel car sale...