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Shares in memory-chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plunges as much as 13.4 per cent and 14 per cent, respectively, amplifying the decline in Seoul

Shop prices are now 0.9% higher than a year ago, down from June’s 1.2%, according to British Retail Consortium (BRC)-NIQ figures.

The US held fire at the weekend after 13 days of attacks on sites in Iran.

LNG is a key part of the energy mix for the UK, with imports typically from the US and Norway

The closures will impact about 200 restaurants in total

John Burford was sentenced to two years in prison last year after admitting to defrauding more than 100 investors.

Whitbread will shut Brewers Fayre sites on September 7, with all its Beefeater restaurants closing on September 10.

Interest rates have been on hold since December 2025

Shareholders approved a pay package worth £10 million for boss Margherita Della Valle.

Hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of stealing between 1999 and 2015 after failures linked to Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system.

The cost of benchmark Brent crude dropped 8% to 87.55 US dollars a barrel at one stage in ongoing heightened volatility in oil and gas markets.

The industrialist was remembered as a ‘giant of Scottish business’.

Since listing at the same time on Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat in late March, sales jumped by nearly a fifth.

It reported total revenues of 30.67 billion US dollars for the first six months of 2026.

Consumer expert Scott Dixon said fans ‘ought to vote with their feet and wallets and refuse to pay it’.

Sir Ian was one of Scotland’s wealthiest people

DCC joins an ever-growing list of FTSE companies to have been bought and taken private in recent months.

Vodafone said its cost-saving initiatives had helped deliver the reduction in roles across Europe and in its shared operations.

The fast fashion group swung to a 99 million US dollar (£74 million) bottom line loss in the first quarter of 2026.

The six-year study examined the relationship between bosses’ personalities and their views on remote work

Economists have said they still expect a majority of the Bank’s rate-setting committee to opt to keep the base interest rate at 3.75 per cent

In early 2023, supermarkets imposed limits of three on various salad items and vegetables when bad weather affected supplies of crops grown abroad.

President Donald Trump announced the tariff would be lifted following the state visit of the King and Queen.

For the week, the FTSE 100 rose 1.3%, the FTSE 250 climbed 0.8%, and the AIM all-share advanced 1.6%.

Business journalist Lucy Tobin talks to Ruchir Rodrigues of Lloyds about how UK businesses are cutting through the AI hype to unlock real productivity gains

The deal, reportedly worth around £900 million, comes after the Lalvani family launched an auction process earlier this year.

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won filed for divorce after revealing he was in a relationship with another woman and had a child with her

Trade body Offshore Energies UK is urging the Government to back the controversial Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas projects in the North Sea.

Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest will report their half-year results on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday respectively.

New early figures showed that activity in the private sector increased for the first in three months in July.