Defence contractor Qinetiq has hiked its dividend as a surge in defence spending lifted full-year profit to £215.2m. The Farnborough-based group’s full-year dividend came in at 8.25p, up from 7.7p…
The chief executive of Nationwide has said the lender is not currently considering any more big-ticket acquisitions, with Britain’s largest building society already busy enough finalising its £2.9bn takeover of…
HSBC has been slapped with a £6.2m fine by the UK financial regulator over failures in its treatment of customers who were in arrears or experiencing financial difficulty. The Financial…
While Garfield may not have the same clout as other animated characters, his enduring popularity makes the existence of this new big screen adventure somewhat understandable. Jim Davis’ comic strip…
The Times and The Sun publisher News Corp has inked a multi-year deal with artificial intelligence developer OpenAI, making it the latest publisher to allow the tech company to use…
Tate and Lyle has reached agreement with KPS Capital Partners for the sale of its remaining stake in Primient, an American subsidiary of Tate and Lyle. The firm said after…
Former UKIP and Brexit party leader Nigel Farage has ruled himself out of running at the 2024 election. The politician wrote on X he had “thought long and hard” about…
Lando Norris has issued a rallying cry to his McLaren team, saying it is “about time” world champion Max Verstappen felt some nerves on a F1 race weekend. Norris became…
The UK economy is likely to continue growing at a reasonable rate in the second quarter, but at a slower pace than earlier in the year, a closely watched survey…
Before the start of the current rugby season both Gloucester and the Sharks, from Durban, would have been full of hope for their domestic campaigns. But soon into their Premiership…