Protecting wildlife shouldn’t come at the expense of building more homes, Angela Rayner has said. Last week, Sir Keir Starmer pledged to build 1.5 million homes and fast-track planning decisions on 15...
TikTok has lost an appeal against plans to ban the video-sharing app in the US. The social media platform had argued the proposal was a breach of the US First Amendment, which protects freedom of spee...
Fourteen new trains are to be built at a Hitachi plant in County Durham, securing hundreds of jobs. The plan safeguards 700 jobs with a £500m investment for the Newton Aycliffe site. The plant and its...
The UK’s biggest water provider has received another bid, despite having declared itself “uninvestable”. The latest bid for Thames Water came from infrastructure investor Covalis Capital, which would ...
Dale Vince, the activist and entrepreneur, has accused the owners of The Guardian of telling “a complete untruth” about his interest in taking control of The Observer. Speaking to Sky News, Mr Vince, ...
Marks & Spencer has been told it can demolish and rebuild its flagship London store, 18 months after its plans were blocked by the previous government. Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Ange...
A music-streaming service whose shareholders include the U2 bassist Adam Clayton and the financier Guy Hands is closing in on a solvent restructuring that will pave the way for it to launch a string o...
One of the UK’s biggest insurers could get even bigger as Direct Line looks set to accept a sweetened £3.61bn takeover bid from Aviva. It’s not the first time Aviva has tried to buy Direct Line, which...
The owner of The Guardian is pressing ahead with the sale of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper to a fledgling digital media company, just hours after scores of journalists went on strike in protest ...
Across Europe, car companies are cutting jobs and shutting factories – to the extent that some question their very existence. So it’s worth asking the question: what’s gone wrong with Europe (and for ...
Britain’s tax authority is contemplating voting against a court-led restructuring of the steel operations owned by Sanjeev Gupta. Sky News understands that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is understood to...
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for 25% of new car registrations in November, an almost 60% increase year-on-year – and well above a government target manufacturers have called on ministers...
