The Chancellor borrowed more than expected at the start of the new tax year, piling more pressure on the public finances ahead of next month's spending review.

Bitcoin has surged to a new all-time high - breaking through $111,000 for the first time.

Governments "have to be fair" to pensioners but there is a case for people on the top rate of income tax to be excluded from winter fuel payments, Gordon Brown has said.

The M&S website was down in the early hours of this morning - hours after the retailer revealed it's facing a £300m hit to profits following last month's ransomware attack.

Johnson Matthey, the London-listed industrial group, will on Thursday announce the sale of a unit involved in the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as its board fends off pressure from an American activist investor.

A developer of AI-driven software used by the defence and intelligence communities and backed by a fund which employs the former defence secretary, Sir Ben Wallace, is racing to secure millions of pounds of new funding.

A prolific shoplifter has been banned from every Greggs in England and Wales after being caught stealing from there seven times, police have said.

Inflation is the most relatable economic metric.

Government commissioners have been accused of "sabotaging" negotiations to end the long-running bin strike in Birmingham.

Marks and Spencer (M&S) has warned investors it is facing a £300m hit to trading profits as a result of last month's ransomware attack.

The pace of inflation surged last month to an annual rate of 3.5%, its highest level in more than a year, according to official figures which pointed to hikes to essential household bills.

Thames Water has "withdrawn" plans to pay senior bosses bonuses linked to the company securing a £3bn emergency loan, the environment secretary has said.

Elon Musk has said he is committed to remaining as Tesla's chief executive for at least five years, as the electric carmaker faces pressure from consumers and the stock market over his work with Donald Trump's government.

The boss of one of the UK's biggest banks says it is being attacked "all the time" by online criminals and he is kept up at night by cyber threats.

Adriatic Metals, a precious metals mining group, is in the early stages of takeover talks which could lead to it becoming the latest London-listed company to succumb to an overseas bidder.

The steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta is mounting a last-ditch bid to salvage his British operations after seeing an emergency plea for government support rejected.

Britain should have access to the EU's rearmament fund before the end of the year but "wounds of Brexit" mean some member states want it to be limited, the bloc's foreign affairs chief has said.

There's a trick to announcing trade agreements like the one unveiled by the prime minister on Monday: pluck out a big-sounding number and release it to the public with zero context in an effort to make this sound very impressive indeed.

The publisher of the Daily Mail has held talks in recent days about taking a minority stake in the Telegraph newspapers as part of a deal to end the two-year impasse over their ownership.

Energy bills are set to fall from this July and will continue to drop in the autumn and winter, a forecaster has said.