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How the West’s big bet on hydrogen fell apart

Posted by July 18, 2024

Hydrogen is also highly explosive and more leaky than natural gas – making its transportation difficult and expensive.“Engi

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OBR given more powers to prevent repeat of Liz Truss…

Posted by July 17, 2024

A new law is set to prevent any future government from sidelining the UK's independent forecaster from assessing its economic plans like former prime minister L

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Government urged to deliver net zero action to lower bills…

Posted by July 17, 2024

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Pound hits highest level against dollar for a year

Posted by July 17, 2024

The pound hit its highest level against the dollar in a year on Wednesday as investors bet on UK interest rates staying higher for longer.Fresh data on Wednesda

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Labour Is Warned Plan to Hike UK Minimum Wage Imperils…

Posted by July 17, 2024

(Bloomberg) -- Plans for a big increase in the UK minimum wage threaten to make it harder for the Bank of England to cut interest rates and dampen longer-term g

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King’s speech policies ‘fall short’ for small business, say trade…

Posted by July 17, 2024

Policy announcements in the new Labour Government’s first King’s Speech “fell short” in supporting small firms across the UK to help drive economic grow

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‘Smart data’ legislation back in business as new UK government…

Posted by July 17, 2024

UK legislative priorities: the King’s Speech, presented today (17 July) in Parliament, includes the new Digital Information and Smart Data Bill –

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Unions hail UK’s rail renationalisation bills as a return to…

Posted by July 17, 2024

Rail unions have said Britain’s trains will be “run as a public service, not for private profit”, as the new government announced early steps to renationa

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Fear of persistent inflation? Bank of England should shake it…

Posted by July 17, 2024

Inflation is back down to more normal levels. But at the Bank of England, there are concerns that the battle to keep it close to the 2% target set by the govern

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UK Food and Drink Inflation Hits Lowest Rate Since 2021…

Posted by July 17, 2024

In June, food and non-alcoholic beverage inflation in the UK declined, marking the 15th consecutive month of this trend. The annual inflation rate dropp

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Britain becomes first country in Europe to approve lab-grown meat

Posted by July 17, 2024

Meatly, which was founded in 2022, is the first company in the world to get authorisation for cultivated pet food, which uses m

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Body Shop nears rescue deal with group led by British…

Posted by July 17, 2024

The Body Shop is close to being bought out of administration after it agreed to exclusive rescue talks with a consortium led by the British cosmetics tycoon Mik

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