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03.10.2023 - 04:00
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Euro News
How are Swedish gangs using music platform Spotify to launder money?
02.10.2023 - 22:27
Business
Sky News
Food prices ‘see month-on-month fall for first time in two years’
Food prices have dropped for the first month in more than two years, according to an industry lobby group that says food inflation is now in single digits.The British Retail Consortium (BRC)-NielsenIQ Shop Price Index found food inflation eased to an annual rate of 9.9% in September, which is down from 11.5% in August. That’s …
02.10.2023 - 10:32
Business
Business Live
Law firms Rotheras and Bray & Bray announce merger to form 200-strong business
East Midlands law firms Rotheras and Bray & Bray have merged to create a new firm, which has been named Rothera Bray LLP. Management said all existing partners and staff of Leicester-based Bray & Bray and Rotheras, which has its head office in Nottingham, have joined together to create a 200-strong team with 27 partners. …
02.10.2023 - 10:05
Business
Euro News
UK house prices are plummeting at the most rapid pace in over a decade
02.10.2023 - 09:47
Business
Evening Standard
Sharon White to quit John Lewis after just five years
The £1-million-a-year boss of John Lewis surprised the business world today by saying she intended to stand down at the end of her five-year term in February 2025.That will make Dame Sharon White, 56, the shortest serving chair in the history of the partnership that also owns Waitrose, a business that has struggled to compete …
02.10.2023 - 08:47
Business
Sky News
John Lewis chairman to leave in 2025 – making her the briefest serving boss in its history
The chairman of the John Lewis Partnership will leave the business in 2025, it has been announced, just weeks after it warned of a two-year extension to its turnaround plan.The loss-making, employee-owned company said Dame Sharon White was not seeking a second term when her five-year term ends in February 2025. The decision means her …
02.10.2023 - 08:45
Business
Sky News
UK hands £4bn contract to BAE for ‘powerful attack’ submarines
Britain has awarded BAE Systems a £4bn contract to build “powerful attack” submarines as part of the AUKUS security pact with the US and Australia.BAE Systems said the Ministry of Defence had awarded it the funding to cover development work to 2028, allowing it to start detailed design work on the submarines. British defence firm …
02.10.2023 - 06:06
Business
Sky News
House price decline stutters after interest rate pause and summer slowdown
The sharp decline in house prices took a pause for breath last month, according to a closely-watched report.Nationwide said prices were unchanged in September compared to the previous month. The lender had reported a 0.8% fall in August.It meant that prices were still 5.3% lower than a year earlier, equalling the biggest annual drop since …
02.10.2023 - 05:08
Business
Sky News
Water firms seek £156 rise in annual bills to tackle shortages and sewage spills
Water companies are making their case for a hike to annual household bills of up to £156 in the second half of the decade, to tackle challenges including shortages and sewage leaks.Industry body Water UK said the firms’ business plans, which have to be signed off by the regulator Ofwat, would see investment almost double …
01.10.2023 - 15:05
Business
Sky News
Challenger bank Redwood to go public as Rowland engineers R8 tie-up
The prominent financier Jonathan Rowland is to take the challenger bank he co-founded six years ago onto the London stock market through a reverse takeover of another business set up by his family.Sky News has learnt that Mr Rowland, who has floated a number of corporate vehicles in the City, has orchestrated a deal to …
01.10.2023 - 14:18
Business
Sky News
Living wage to rise and tougher rules on benefits, chancellor to say
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will reiterate the government’s commitments to make benefits sanctions harsher in a speech today – while also committing to raising the national living wage above £11 an hour.Mr Hunt‘s intervention comes around six weeks ahead of his autumn financial statement. While not as tumultuous as his predecessor’s party conference speech last year …
01.10.2023 - 09:46
Business
Sky News
Violence and abuse faced by shop workers needs tougher action, say retail chiefs
Tougher punishments should be introduced for attacks on shop workers in the face of “unacceptable levels of violence and abuse”, retail chiefs have urged.Nearly 90 business leaders, including the bosses of Tesco, Greggs, Boots, WHSmith and Primark, have written to Home Secretary Suella Braverman to press for a law change, making it a specific criminal …
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