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The private equity firm which owns a controlling stake in Asda is closing in on a £275m deal to buy a division of the listed cybersecurity company NCC Group.
The government will this week unveil plans for a radical overhaul of the way mergers are scrutinised in Britain including reforms that observers say will entrench the power of the competition regulator's boss.
It's hardly a Love Actually moment of brave UK defiance in the face of a domineering US president - but Sir Keir Starmer has clearly decided it's time to start pushing back.
The Greens are calling for people under the age of 22 to have free bus travel in England.
Rolls-Royce Holdings is to hand its chief executive a multimillion-pound annual pay boost, even as he nears one of Britain's most lucrative ever public company payouts after overseeing a spectacular revival of the industrial manufacturing group.
Wholesale natural gas prices have risen by more than 40% this month as a raft of pressures, described by one analyst as a "perfect storm", threaten to raise energy bills ahead.
Rachel Reeves's plans to curb cash ISA limits with the aim of fuelling a wave of stock market investing "are doomed to fail", the boss of one of Britain's biggest retail investment platforms has warned.
Rachel Reeves's plans to curb cash ISA limits with the aim of fuelling a wave of stock market investing "are doomed to fail", the boss of one of Britain's biggest retail investment platforms has warned.
Water is finally being restored to some homes across Kent and Sussex - after almost a week of chaos.
The petrol forecourts giant founded in Blackburn by brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa will next week kick off formal plans for a $9bn (£6.7bn) US stock market listing.

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