Aldi tops up wages for staff: ‘Our people are the driving force of our success’ July 29, 2025 Aldi has announced a top-up to its staff wages, retaining its crown as the UK’s highest-paying supermarket. The new minimum rate of pay, which increases to £14.33 within the M25, will take effect from 1 September this year. It further exceeds the Real Living Wage of £12.60 an hour that was set by the Living [...]
Price of fresh food pushes up Brits’ supermarket bills July 29, 2025 Higher wholesale prices for meat and tea have pushed up grocery prices at UK supermarkets, with warnings of more inflation ahead. Food inflation increased to four per cent year-on-year in July, against growth of 3.7 per cent in June and above the three-month average of 3.5 per cent. Fresh food rose in price by 3.2 [...]
UK cider set to benefit from sweetest apple crop ‘in recent memory’ July 29, 2025 Multiple heatwaves in the UK have boosted expected yields from the UK’s orchards, with this year’s cider crop to be bigger and better than in recent years. The UK’s driest and hottest spring for over a century has concentrated the sugar content of apples, making them smaller but sweeter. “Last year was a perfect storm [...]
Soaring stamp duty costs dampen house price growth July 29, 2025 Housing market activity has surged but price growth has slowed as high costs bite into buyers’ budgets. Buyer demand rose 11 per cent and agreed sales rose eight per cent year on year but house prices grew by just 1.3 per cent, according to Zoopla’s latest house price index. Higher stamp duty costs now impact [...]
As charities struggle, well-off City firms have a responsibility to give back July 29, 2025 City firms have a responsibility to use their resources to help struggling charities, writes Bloomberg's Jemma Read.
AI disruption rocks professional services jobs market fuelling anxiety among Gen-Z July 29, 2025 The UK jobs market is facing significant turmoil, with rising unemployment figures and layoffs, a trend seen in the professional services sector
Wise shareholders overwhelmingly approve plans to ditch UK primary listing July 28, 2025 UK fintech Wise has curbed a potential shareholder revolt to seal the transferal of its primary listing to the US despite an investor backlash over additional terms within the proposal. More than 90 per cent of Class A shareholders and 84.6 per cent of Class B shareholders approved the deal, which will see the firm [...]
Trump hails relationship with Starmer – but no steel exemptions yet July 28, 2025 In a Scottish golfing holiday that has swiftly given way to a multi-sided international summit, Keir Starmer has held a bilateral meeting with Donald Trump which has spanned from the UK-US trading relationship to immigration policy and international conflicts. Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds had tempered expectations of immediate steel tariff progress ahead of the meeting, [...]
Super-prime sales plunge again July 28, 2025 The continued rise in wealthy residents leaving Britain has caused super-prime property sales in London to plunge by over £100m this year, according to a fresh study that brings the woes afoot at the upper end of London real estate into even sharper relief. During the first half of this year, the total value of [...]
Reclaim Party’s Laurence Fox libel battle continues in appeal court July 28, 2025 Laurence Fox appeared at the Court of Appeal today, seeking to question a legal ruling in favour of two men whom he had labelled 'paedophiles' online.