Thames Water and Ofwat tight-lipped on plans to cut fines and avoid nationalisation
Thames Water and the regulator Ofwat have refused to be drawn on speculation fines will be cut in a bid to reduce the debt burdens facing the company and ultimately…
Thames Water and the regulator Ofwat have refused to be drawn on speculation fines will be cut in a bid to reduce the debt burdens facing the company and ultimately…
Rishi Sunak has pledged to scrap what he called “rip-off degrees” in favour of creating 100,000 more apprenticeships per year, in his latest general election policy announcement. The Prime Minister…
Lenders have been increasing their use of the Bank of England’s short-term lending facility over the past few weeks. Last week, investors borrowed over £16bn from the Bank’s short-term repo…
Hackney’s Labour transport councillor has denied a partnership between his charity and Lime constitutes a conflict of interest, ahead of a looming decision on whether the electric bike firm’s contract…
Small business support leaders have named access to finance, taxes, and sustainability support as some of their core areas of hope for pro-business policies ahead of the general election on…
Anglo American has rejected a request from BHP to extend a takeover deadline today in a move that could blow apart the potential mining mega-merger. After BHP requested an extension…
The FTSE 100 looked set to throw Ocado out of its shopping basket on Wednesday following a plunge in the value of the online retailer’s shares. Ocado’s valuation dropped from…
St James’s Place is expected to fall out of the FTSE 100 after ten years in London’s main index. The wealth manager, along with Ocado, is expected to be replaced…
Europe and the US’s top online food delivery companies have collectively lost over $20bn (£15.6bn) in operating losses over the past seven years as the stocks languish. Following the pandemic-induced…
A Cambridge-based firm that can extract gold and precious metals from old circuit boards for electronic devices is mulling an initial public offering. Bioscope Technologies, which uses micro-organisms to draw…