Scotland holidays: how the Lowlands beat the famous Highlands October 27, 2026 Everyone’s been to the Highlands, so minimise travel and visit the spectacular Scottish Lowlands for your next Scotland trip, by Alexandra Pereira The first thing I notice at Glenapp Castle are the curling stones. Wedging open the heavy doors, these granite boulders are hewn from Ailsa Craig, the island you can see from the windows [...]
I turned 40 and booked the Silk Road trip of my childhood dreams October 26, 2026 Uzbekistan is a pinnacle of the Silk Road but remains fairly undiscovered. Hannah Copeland went in search of childhood fantasies and got lost in vibrant bazaars My fascination with Central Asia began as a teenager when I read a historical romance novel about an Uzbek Princess and her travels along the Silk Road. The epic [...]
Letting Britain’s arts buildings crumble will cost us all October 23, 2026 Culture is essential civic infrastructure, but Britain is letting its arts buildings fall into disrepair, writes Elaine Bedell.
Sainsbury’s shares slide as ‘tough’ conditions slow growth October 22, 2026 Shares in Sainsbury’s tumbled after the supermarket giant posted slowing sales growth and warned that shoppers are facing “tough” cost-of-living pressures. The UK’s second-largest supermarket saw its stock slide by nearly four per cent in early trading to 346p. This came despite the firm lifting the lower end of its full-year profit target from £965m [...]
Meet the man behind London’s biggest new factory since the Second World War October 20, 2026 Isembard’s Alexander Fitzgerald is on a mission to revitalise Britain’s high-precision manufacturing industry. Ali Lyon visits the company’s new London site to talk policy, patriotism and intergalactic growth Amid the whirring sound of robotic machines, Alexander Fitzgerald is excitedly explaining why the only thing on the wall of his cavernous factory is a brightly illuminated, [...]
Saxo Bank taps Norris, Bale, Sabalenka and Courtois for investment trends October 19, 2026 Saxo Bank will tap the psyches of the likes of Lando Norris, Gareth Bale and Aryna Sabalenka as part of a new partnership with nine global athletes. The Danish bank announced on Monday that it will explore the mindset and habits of the current and former athletes to “examine how these principles translate into successful [...]
Premier Inn owner Whitbread hits out at ‘destructive’ activist investor October 13, 2026 Premier Inn owner Whitbread has hit out at the activist investor seeking a seat on its board, claiming its proposals would be a “complete waste” of time and money. The FTSE 100 hospitality firm wrote to shareholders on Tuesday urging them to reject the plans put forward by Corvex Asset Management, one of the group’s [...]
Battersea Power Station nears completion with £280m new loan October 13, 2026 The developers behind Battersea Power Station have secured a new £280m refinancing as the £5bn regeneration project nears its final stage. The Battersea Power Station Development Company secured the new loan from the group of lenders which have backed the project since it began in 2012, including London-listed Standard Chartered, Malaysian bank CIMB, Singaporean financial [...]
I helped found Shazam, now I write crime novels: Job hopping is a joy October 7, 2026 Long gone are the days of life-long jobs and thank goodness – job-hopping is a joy, writes Shazam-investor-turned-play-director Ajay Chowdhury.
Former Whitbread bosses mastermind takeover of Beefeater restaurants October 7, 2026 Former senior managers at Whitbread have advised on a deal to buy back nearly 60 restaurants from the group, after it wound up its Beefeater and Brewers Fayre chains last month. Common Table Group, a British hospitality firm, has agreed to buy 57 restaurant sites and one Premier Inn hotel from the FTSE 100 hotels [...]