The City watchdog is considering a formal proposal to increase Britain’s £100 contactless spending limit as part of a response to the prime minister’s order for regulators to tear down barriers to economic growth.

The future of Pizza Hut's restaurants in Britain has been salvaged after the business was sold out of insolvency proceedings to the brand's main partner in Denmark and Sweden.

Train passengers caught without a ticket should be given a "yellow card" warning instead of a fine for a first offence, a watchdog says.

Approval has been given for the first UK launch of a traditional "vertical" rocket.

Marginal gains, the science of extracting significant athletic advantage from numerous small changes, has long been a mantra in top-class sport.

Freetrade, the British stock-trading app, is facing a backlash from early investors after announcing a sale to London-listed IG Group for a fraction of the valuation it targeted during earlier fundraising talks.

BP has announced it is cutting 4,700 jobs from its global workforce.

The UK economy just about returned to growth in November after two months of contraction, the latest official figures show.

Forget this week's minor decrease in the UK inflation number. 

Nadhim Zahawi, the former chancellor, is joining an Israeli medical diagnostics group which is trying to transform the way infectious diseases are detected and managed.

Sir Keir Starmer has said he is committed to only having one budget this year as he quashed suggestions of an emergency financial statement.

The rate of inflation may have eased slightly but it is clear that UK households are facing a surge of rising costs ahead.

Thousands have signed a petition imploring the world's biggest advertising agency, WPP, to revoke a new rule forcing employees to attend the office four days a week.

A fall in December's CPI inflation of 0.1 percentage points to 2.5% is marginal, but by being below expectations it delivered an above-expectations boost to Rachel Reeves.

The newest member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee has made the case for up to four cuts this year following a surprise fall in inflation.

Elon Musk is being sued for failing to disclose his purchase of more than 5% of Twitter stock in a timely fashion.

Apple AI is sending misleading push notifications about sensitive stories like Gisele Pelicot's mass rape trial, Britain's grooming gang scandal and a prison officer filmed having sex with an inmate.

A key port connecting Wales and Ireland will partially re-open a month after it was closed due to storm damage.

Google could be required to hand over data it collects to businesses as the UK competition regulator launched an investigation into the tech giant.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been accused of refusing to "face up to her own failures" by "jetting off to Beijing" during a week of market turmoil.