Survey: Nearly All European Organisations Feel Pressure to Scale AI for Customer Experience, Yet Only 38% Have a Clear Approach to Governance June 15, 2026 Survey of 200 senior leaders across Western and Central Europe reveals widening gap between AI adoption and governance exposing risks in compliance, multilingual CX and customer trust
Mike Ashley’s Frasers makes £166m play for shoe firm Accent June 15, 2026 Frasers Group has launched a £166m takeover bid of Australian shoe company Accent while calling for the removal of its chairman over “poor performance”. The fashion conglomerate has offered to buy all of the shares in Accent it does not already own for 65 Australian cents per share, valuing the offer at A$136m (£166m). This [...]
Ask the Expert: Should I go part-time or pay for nursery? June 15, 2026 Fidelity personal finance specialist Marianna Hunt is back again to answer your questions, and today a reader is weighing up the financial decision of childcare. Q. My husband and I recently had a baby and I am planning my return to work post maternity leave. The cost of nursery is so enormous – our chosen [...]
Government departments will look at cutting budgets to fund defence, minister says June 14, 2026 Government departments are looking at cutting their budgets further in order to help fund defence, a cabinet minister has said. Culture secretary Lisa Nandy insisted the country’s national security remains minister’s “highest priority” adding departments are looking to shift their budgets to fund defence. She said to Sky News: “There’s a clear picture emerging from [...]
Starmer overrules Miliband on electric car sales targets as he looks to appease automotive industry June 14, 2026 Keir Starmer will water down the UK’s electric vehicle sales, in a significant blow to energy secretary Ed Miliband’s net-zero agenda, in a bid to quash fears in the automotive industry. According to reports in The Sunday Times, the prime minister is understood to have overruled Miliband following pressure from the industry, the Unite union [...]
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Newnham’s Resolve can keep him in championship race June 12, 2026 HONG Kong racegoers arriving for an 11-race programme, including a couple of contests on the all-weather surface at Sha Tin on Saturday, will need to be armed with their umbrellas again. Rain and possible thunderstorms are forecast to hit the city over the weekend, resulting in probable testing conditions for gallopers on show during the [...]
London Tech Week was ‘complacency in conference form’ June 12, 2026 London Tech Week has been accused of masking some of the biggest structural problems facing Britain’s tech sector and of offering “complacency in conference form”. Adam French, partner at global venture capital firm Antler, said the flagship event highlighted a widening gap between the public narrative around UK tech and the realities facing founders trying [...]
Liz Kendall ramps up push to funnel pension cash into UK startups June 12, 2026 The government is stepping up efforts to channel more institutional money into British tech firms as ministers look to stop promising startups heading overseas for funding. Tech secretary Liz Kendall announced that Labour would pursue reforms to unlock pension fund investment into UK growth firms, adding Britain needs to become an “indispensable partner” in the [...]
Building a community of thriving professionals June 12, 2026 The debate about where people work has largely been settled. The new question is harder: why would anyone choose to come in when they don’t have to? Salary matters. Career progression matters. But the businesses winning the talent conversation right now have figured out something else: the quality of the environment you spend eight hours [...]