Starmer blames sweeping tax hikes on Tories December 3, 2025 Keir Starmer blamed sweeping tax hikes at the Budget aimed at funding extra welfare spending and building a larger fiscal buffer on the previous Conservative government’s economic performance. Responding to questions from opposition leader Kemi Badenoch on whether tax rises were necessary, Starmer pointed the finger at a £16bn downgrade to productivity forecasts by the [...]
Could our daughters close the growing gender pension gap? December 3, 2025 The gender pension gap is growing. Could our digital-savvy daughters close it, asks Scottish Widows pensions expert Jill Henderson.
Hotels ‘fighting to maintain profits’ as costs rise December 3, 2025 Britain’s hotels are struggling with rising costs despite increasing demand, according to the latest data. Profits were flat for UK hotels between September and October at just over 38 per cent, and fell slightly from 43.3 per cent to 43.1 per cent in London, according to the RSM hotels tracker. This was despite a rise [...]
Options Appoints Former Exergy / ICE Sales Director, Bob Coletti as Sales Director Strategic Accounts December 3, 2025 Options Technology, a leading provider of high-performance trading infrastructure and market data solutions, today announced the appointment of Bob Coletti as Sales Director, Strategic Accounts. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251203430077/en/ With a career spanning senior commercial roles across the financial technology ecosystem, Bob has built a reputation for cultivating [...]
Rugby league club Salford Red Devils liquidated after 150 years December 3, 2025 Super League club Salford Red Devils have been liquidated, ending the club’s 152-year existence, amid debts of £4m. The club was wound up at a hearing at the Insolvency and Companies Court of the Royal Court of Justice in London on Wednesday morning after four adjournments at previous hearings. Salford Red Devils were taken over [...]
Smiths Group strikes deal to offload detection business for £2bn December 3, 2025 London listed Smiths Group is set to offload another of its businesses, as it works to streamline its operations after bowing to increasing investor pressure. The FTSE 100 company has agreed to sell its Smiths Detection division to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in a £2bn deal. The business manufactures threat detection technology, including [...]
Taiho Oncology Europe announces the launch of Lytgobi®▼ (futibatinib) in the United Kingdom for eligible adult patients with a previously treated subtype of locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma1 December 3, 2025 Lytgobi (futibatinib) marks the first medicine launched by Taiho Oncology Europe in the UK2
Forget retail stores – watch collectors now hang at the clubhouse December 3, 2025 Just past De Beers on London’s Old Bond Street lies an anonymous-looking door. Look through to the lobby beyond it and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was an office block where boring admin-y things happen. In fact, if you take the lift up, the doors open to reveal a calm, cream space. To your [...]
Powervault: London Mayor-backed Tesla battery rival collapses December 3, 2025 Battery storage firm Powervault, which had been tipped to become the UK rival to Tesla, has collapsed into administration, City AM can reveal. The London-based company, which had been backed by the Mayor of London’s Greater London Investment Fund as well as the British Business Bank, has appointed administrators Menzies to oversee its wind-down, according [...]
London’s South Bank beefs up leadership team December 3, 2025 South Bank Employers’ Group (SBEG) has welcomed five new appointments to its board amid a modernisation drive. The not-for-profit membership organisation, which was founded in 1991, said it marked the end of a major governance review and the start of a “smaller, more agile board”. Chief executive Nic Durston said SBEG has “transformed the way [...]