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Britain's biggest high street lender has struck a £120m deal to buy Curve, the digital wallet provider, despite recriminations from shareholders about the distribution of the sale proceeds.

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have scrapped plans to break their manifesto pledge and raise income tax rates in a massive U-turn less than two weeks from the budget.

An influential coalition of leaders from Britain's professional services sector has warned Rachel Reeves that a Budget tax raid on the sector would "stunt growth" in the UK's faltering economy.

Drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) will have to pay congestion charges in central London early next year - a move described by the AA as a "backward" step.

The number of domestic UK flights has more than halved over the past 20 years, even as global air travel continues to grow.

The electric vehicle-leasing business which forms part of the same group as Britain's biggest household energy supplier will on Friday announce a £500m extension to its financing warchest.

The announcement of plans to issue Scottish government bonds is a "very proud day for Scotland", First Minister John Swinney has said.

We’ll get to the actual economics in a moment - to the questions of why the economy is flatlining and what it means for Rachel Reeves’ forthcoming budget. But before that, let’s take a moment to ponder something rather extraordinary.

The UK's economic slowdown gathered further momentum during the third quarter of the year with growth of just 0.1%, according to an early official estimate that makes horrific reading for the chancellor.

Some of the biggest names in music - including Coldplay, Dua Lipa and Radiohead - have urged the government to honour a pledge to cap ticket resale prices and shutout touts.

WH Ireland, the wealth management group, is in talks about an all-share merger with Team, another London-listed operator in the sector.

Wylfa, on Anglesey, also known as Ynys Mon, has been chosen as the site for the UK's first small modular reactor nuclear power station, the UK government has confirmed.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has defended a new round of resident doctor walkouts starting on Friday, insisting medics' pay is still "way down" compared with 2008 and that the government has failed to finish "a journey" towards restoring it.

Every month the Money blog interviews a top chef from around the UK, hearing about their cheap food hacks, views on the industry and more. Today they speak to Kevin Bonello, head chef at the Grade II* listed hotel The Grand, York.

A Japanese manufacturing firm has revealed plans to shut a factory in County Durham, placing hundreds of jobs at risk.

Thousands of job cuts at the NHS will go ahead after the £1bn needed to fund the redundancies was approved by the Treasury.

The number of universal credit (UC) claimants has soared to 8.3 million people - up from 7.2 million at the same time last year, new government figures show.

A decision not to award compensation to the Waspi women will be reconsidered by the government because of undisclosed "evidence", the Work and Pensions Secretary has said.

The UK competition regulator has been hit by another spate of boardroom exits less than a year after its chair was forced out by ministers as part of their efforts to spur economic growth.

The former chief executive of Petrofac, the oilfield services group which collapsed last month, is in talks to raise tens of millions of pounds for the offshore wind energy group he set up four years ago.