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Hottest day on record? Then double down on Net Zero, don’t dumb it down
I am writing this with a damp tea towel round my neck, a fan pointed at my face like an...
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Whitehall has been frozen for six weeks, warns Reeves’s entrepreneurs adviser
The chancellor’s adviser on entrepreneurs has warned that the machinery of government has already been “frozen for six weeks”, and...
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Stop pretending the EU’s new border system works, airports chief tells politicians
The head of Europe’s airports trade body has urged politicians to “stop pretending” that the European Union’s new digital border...
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Stricter returns policies could cost UK retailers £34bn in lost sales, research warns
UK retailers could be sleepwalking into a £34.1 billion hole in annual sales by tightening their returns policies, with new...
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Oxford and UCL to lead £60m drive to make AI cheaper for British business
Two university-led research labs are to share up to £60 million of government money in a bid to make artificial...
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From feed to footfall: social media now drives 1.7 billion high street visits a year
Far from luring shoppers away from the high street, social media is sending them through the door in their millions....
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Manchester debt firm fined £300,000 for bombarding vulnerable people with 5.5 million spam texts and fake bailiff threats
A Manchester company has been hit with one of the largest nuisance marketing fines in recent years after it deliberately...
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Worldpay outage leaves pubs and shops scrambling for cash during England match
Thousands of shoppers and football fans were forced back to notes and coins on Tuesday night after a power outage...
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Brexit blamed as Britain’s £74bn goods export slump deepens its reliance on services
Britain has shed £74 billion of goods exports since Brexit and tilted ever more firmly towards a services-led economy, according...
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Who could be the UK’s next chancellor?
With Sir Keir Starmer standing down, Andy Burnham, the newly elected MP for Makerfield, looks all but certain to become...
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