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The UK's unemployment rate has fallen to 4.7%, in a set of official figures that will support the case for a Bank of England interest rate hike next month.

The consortium of Thames Water creditors looking to rescue Britain's largest supplier of its kind has appointed a former senior Labour minister in a bid to help get a deal past government opposition.

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The executive who piloted Virgin Atlantic Airways through the COVID-19 pandemic is taking the helm at a major provider of traffic management services in his biggest role since he left Sir Richard Branson's flagship company.

The rate of inflation is up to its highest level this year.

The founder of Starling Bank offloaded her final shares in the digital lender at a valuation less than half the price it was reportedly seeking in its last major secondary share sale.

A pack of buyout firms will this week submit initial offers for Flora Food Group, the spreads giant behind brands including I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.

B&M European Value Retail, the London-listed discounter, is looking to cherry-pick sites from troubled rival Poundland as it teeters on the brink of administration.

Uber has claimed victory in a long-running legal battle brought by taxi rivals, including thousands of London black cab drivers.

Drivers are set to receive new rights to stand up to unfair private parking fines, the government has announced.