Climate Change Made Recent UK and Ireland Storms Much Worse May 22, 2024 By Jessica Shankleman The heavy downpours seen in the UK and Ireland last fall and winter were about 20% worse because of climate...
Range Rover Buyers Offered Insurance Cash After String of Thefts May 9, 2024 By Jamie Nimmo Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc is offering to pay part of customers’ insurance costs for new Range Rovers after a...
UK’s Second Biggest Mortgage Lender Pulls Offers Over Flood Risk April 30, 2024 By Jessica Shankleman The UK’s second biggest mortgage provider has stopped making loans on homes at risk of flooding, over fears they may...
EVs Head for Junkyard as Mechanic Shortage Inflates Repair Costs April 16, 2024 By Jamie Nimmo Electric car sales already are in a funk in key markets around the globe. Challenges finding enough repair technicians threatens...
UK Home, Business Property Insurance Payouts Hit $6B in 2023 April 15, 2024 By Carolyn Cohn Britain’s homes and businesses received 4.86 billion pounds ($6.07 billion) in property insurance payouts in 2023, up 18% from a...
Women in UK Financial Services Earn One-Third Less Than Male Colleagues: Data Show April 8, 2024 By Sinead Cruise and Carolyn Cohn Some of Britain’s top financial firms pay women 28.8% less on average than male counterparts, salary data from 21 companies...
UK Stands to Lose 8 Million Jobs From AI, Analysis Warns March 27, 2024 By Irina Anghel As many as 8 million UK workers are at risk of losing their jobs to artificial intelligence with current government...
UK Plc Attracts Wave of Takeover Offers From Foreign Suitors March 1, 2024 By Alexandra Muller and Dinesh Nair The UK has become a hotbed for mergers and acquisitions this year as dealmakers hunt for bargains in the country’s...
Southern Water Fined for Sewage Spill That Killed 2,000 Fish in England February 28, 2024 By Jessica Shankleman Southern Water was fined £330,000 on Tuesday after admitting a raw sewage spill that killed thousands of fish on the...
UK Has More ‘Fragile Firms’ Than EU Peers: Allianz Report February 28, 2024 By Lucy White The UK has the highest proportion of “fragile firms” out of all major European economies, another sign of the headwinds...