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UK businesses issued with record fines for filing accounts late

Posted by January 3, 2025

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The number of UK companies filing t

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‘Drab December’ caps another year of declining footfall on UK…

Posted by January 3, 2025

High streets and other shopping destinations have had a “drab December”, ending another year of falling visitor numbers and raising fears of disappointing s

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‘Ripped off’ caravan owners start compensation fight

Posted by January 3, 2025

BBCJoanne Horner-Bloomfield says she is "devastated" to have to rely on food banks since losing so much money from her caravanAbout 1,200 caravan owners across

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Sweden’s green industry hopes hit by Northvolt woes

Posted by January 3, 2025

Many researchers and journalists tracking Northvolt's downfall share the view that it was at least partly caused by a global dip in demand for electric vehicles

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UK heading for tax rises despite return to growth, economists…

Posted by January 2, 2025

The UK will return to growth this year but the upturn will not be strong enough to spare the Labour government from raising taxes again before the next election

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Early phase-out of full hybrid vehicles may be a political…

Posted by January 2, 2025

The main timetable is set: no new petrol and diesel cars will be allowed to be sold in the UK after 2030, and sales of all new hybrids will be forbidden from 20

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Tesla shares fall as company reports first decline in annual…

Posted by January 2, 2025

Tesla reported its first decline in annual deliveries on Thursday, as the automaker handed over fewer-than-expected electric vehicles in the fourth quarter and

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UK factory output falls at fastest rate since February amid…

Posted by January 2, 2025

Manufacturers in the UK have cut back output at the fastest rate in 11 months, compounding the gloomy picture for the British economy, according to a closely wa

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Tories seek national probe into child rape gangs as Musk…

Posted by January 2, 2025

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Conservatives have called for a

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Pigs in blankets and fizz help boost Lidl Christmas sales

Posted by January 2, 2025

The supermarket chain's Christmas sales figures were aided by its highest-ever number of customers for the period, with two million more shopping there as it at

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Lidl enjoys record £1bn UK sales in run-up to Christmas

Posted by January 2, 2025

Lidl made more than £1bn in sales in the run-up to Christmas for the first time in the three decades the discount grocer has been operating in the UK as cash-s

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UK house prices jumped again in December

Posted by January 2, 2025

British house prices surged again in December as the property market upswing continued, surprising economists who had expected to see a

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