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London pays households near pylons to stop fighting the gridHouseholds within 500 metres of new or upgraded transmission infrastructure will get up to £250 a year for a decade, a maximum £2,500, across the first 43 approved projects, with payments starting …Eclipse glasses are running short as chasers scrambleRetailers are reporting stock shortages ahead of the next eclipse window, a reminder that niche demand spikes can still catch supply chains flat-footed.John Lewis loses its second boss in three yearsPeter Ruis is stepping down as managing director less than three years into the job, a tenure that included the department store's return to profit and a series of format experiments in beauty and …Thames Water paid its CFO £1m while asking lenders to keep it aliveChairman Sir Adrian Montague disclosed in a letter to MPs that finance chief Steve Buck received a £1 million signing-on fee last month, funded from emergency lender money, more than a year after h…Councils get new teeth against vape shops and betting parloursEngland's councils will need to grant planning permission for new vape shops and lose the aim to permit rule that currently forces them to wave through betting-shop applications meeting licensing c…Harvey Nichols warns it could stop trading within a yearDirectors filed accounts on a break-up basis, and Mike Ashley's Frasers Group is now favourite to buy the chain after Next walked away, with bidders reportedly being asked to commit £50m-£60m in tu…Women's portfolios beat men's by 0.4 points a year, againFidelity data spanning a decade shows female clients outperforming male peers annually while trading roughly half as often, a pattern that holds because men trade 45% more and eat the fees and tax …Burnham's next target: fake discounts and subscription trapsThe government reckons a crackdown on inflated was prices and invented RRPs could save consumers £400 million a year, with the rules to be set through an autumn consultation and passed via secondar…UK vacancies have fallen for 22 straight months, and employers want deregulation in returnJobseeker numbers have risen for 41 consecutive months while vacancies fell for 22 straight, according to KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, and official ONS data puts vacancies…UK puts £65m into EV manufacturers despite mandate backlash£50 million goes directly to carmakers and research partners to scale production, matched by industry cash, sitting inside the wider £4 billion Drive35 programme meant to hit the 2030 petrol and di…Clacton by-election tests whether Farage's 2024 win was personal or Reform'sFarage took the seat in 2024 with 46.2% and an 8,405-vote majority, and pre-vote polling put Reform at 73% this time, but Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems are all sitting the contest out,…Apollo takes easyJet private in £5.7bn dealCastlelake walked away from the bidding and Apollo Global Management stepped in to take easyJet private for £5.7bn, roughly $7.7bn at current rates. That price is a premium to where easyJet shares …UK regulator clears Warner Bros Paramount deal after concessionsBritain's competition watchdog has approved Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros after Paramount agreed to concessions, clearing one of the last major regulatory hurdles for a deal that reshapes …John Lewis tells staff the turnaround still hurtsWarning staff that trading is really tough mid-turnaround is either brutal honesty or expectation management ahead of results that will not impress anyone. John Lewis has spent three years cutting …Student loan repayments are quietly becoming a fiscal problemCalling repayment rates an unsustainable burden to the chancellor directly is a warning shot ahead of the Autumn Budget, not an academic complaint. The current system, where graduates repay 9% of i…Prologis takes out Segro in £14bn warehouse land grabThe largest UK corporate takeover of the year just handed America's biggest logistics landlord control of Britain's warehouse market. Prologis is paying roughly $18.8 billion for Segro, a company t…Waymo drops the waitlist in Dallas, opens robotaxis to everyoneWaymo removing the waitlist in Dallas means it's confident enough in fleet reliability and regulatory standing to serve any rider who opens the app, not just vetted early adopters. Dallas becomes a…Gatwick's second runway clears its last legal hurdleCampaigners lost their appeal against Gatwick's expansion, meaning the airport can proceed toward using its existing standby runway for regular departures, effectively adding capacity without build…Apple sues the Home Office over the backdoor it was ordered to buildApple has moved from quiet resistance to open legal challenge against the UK government's demand for encrypted iCloud access, a demand issued under the Investigatory Powers Act that Apple says it c…Half-price rail extended to 18-year-oldsThe government's extension of the 16-17 Saver-style discount to 18-year-olds is a modest fiscal move, but it lands at a time when rail operators are already under pressure to prove ridership recove…Thames Water's boss says leakage targets are fantasyA Thames Water chief executive publicly calling Ofwat's leakage targets unrealistic is a negotiating opener ahead of the next price review, not a technical admission of defeat. The utility is tryin…Property guardians are paying £580 a month to live in disused care homesIt shows how tight UK housing supply has become that living in a converted care home under a guardianship licence, with none of the tenancy protections of a normal rental, now counts as an affordab…Bank of England holds at 3.75%, and that's the boring partNobody serious expected a cut today, so the hold itself is not the story. What matters is the vote split and the language in the minutes, because that's what moves the November meeting from a coin …UK car production down 7.5%, and carmakers want government helpA 7.5% drop in first-half vehicle production is the kind of number that turns into a lobbying campaign, and that's exactly what's happening as manufacturers push the government for cost relief. Ene…Greggs found growth in matcha and protein bars, not sausage rollsGreggs grew profit despite a summer heatwave that should have hurt footfall for a hot-food bakery chain, and the answer is a menu pivot toward iced drinks, matcha, and protein-heavy snacking that's…Burnham is floating a new tax on workers to fund social careAndy Burnham opening the door to a dedicated social care tax is the clearest sign yet that Greater Manchester's mayor is positioning for a national conversation, not just a regional fix. Social car…Britain's blackberry surplus is getting rescued, one hedgerow at a timeA bumper wild blackberry crop this summer is going unpicked, prompting volunteer foraging schemes to save fruit that would otherwise rot, a small but real marker of how mild autumns are shifting UK…Manchester's mayor is boxed in on borrowing, and Barclays just piled onAndy Burnham wants more fiscal room to spend, and two separate voices just told him no in the same week. A think tank has warned Greater Manchester has no scope to increase borrowing under current …DCC's £5.75bn sale confirms the FTSE 100 is still a shopping list for US buyersDCC, the Irish-founded, London-listed energy and distribution conglomerate, has agreed to a £5.75 billion sale to US acquirers, the latest in a run of FTSE 100 names falling to overseas bidders thi…Sir Ian Wood, who built Wood Group into a North Sea giant, dies at 84Wood turned his father's fishing business into an energy services group worth billions and later gave away much of his fortune through the Wood Foundation, including funding Aberdeen's regeneration…UK mortgage rates tick up, and the base rate cut window just got narrowerRates hitting their highest point in a month reflects swap markets pricing in less certainty about a Bank of England cut than they were three weeks ago, largely on the back of sticky services infla…Sewage discharges near 65 English beaches breach guidance since MayWater companies keep discharging near bathing beaches despite Environment Agency guidance, adding pressure on Ofwat's price review process to force capital spending over shareholder payouts.UK inflation hits a 15-month low, but the £2 bus cap is the only relief that's actually locked inUK inflation eased in June to its lowest reading in 15 months as food and fuel prices fell, and the government used the moment to confirm the £2 bus fare cap in England returns from January. Econom…Thames Water's creditors offer Labour a golden share to dodge the nationalisation billHanding the government a golden share costs lenders almost nothing and buys them the one thing they actually want: keeping £15 billion of debt off the taxpayer's balance sheet while retaining econo…Defence stocks jump on hopes John Healey has Treasury backing to spendBAE Systems and Babcock shares climbed on speculation that Healey's move to the Treasury signals a chancellor sympathetic to raising defence spending beyond the current 2.5% of GDP target, rather t…VAT cut on electricity bills lands in October, savings look smaller up closeScrapping the 5% VAT charge on domestic electricity bills sounds like meaningful relief until you run the numbers on an average household bill of roughly £1,700 a year, where the saving lands close…Burnham's chancellor pick spooks the gilt market before he's even unpackedGilt yields moved before John Healey had finished his first briefing, which shows markets are pricing a looser fiscal stance rather than reacting to a change of face at the top. Healey inherits a T…Segro's third rejection of Prologis is a price discovery exercise, not a defenceTurning down £13.5bn three times while leaving the door open is Segro's board signalling it knows what the business is worth and Prologis hasn't got there yet. Prologis is the world's largest wareh…Nationalisation is starting to look like a habit, and creditors have noticedThames Water's lenders are lining up lawyers before Andy Burnham has even confirmed a takeover, which tells you how little faith bondholders now have in getting fair treatment from a Labour governm…FTSE bosses now earn 130 times the average workerThat ratio has widened even as real wage growth for most UK workers stays flat, keeping pay disclosure rules squarely in the FCA and government's sights for the next reporting season.