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Ladbrokes owner prepares to cut 400 jobs weeks after profit boost
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Ladbrokes owner prepares to cut 400 jobs weeks after profit boost

Entain, which also owns Coral and BetMGM, starts consultation process over customer care rolesBusiness live – latest updatesThe Ladbrokes owner, Entain, has said it is preparing to cut 400 jobs, only...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Revealed: the UK towns with the fewest jobs for young people
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Revealed: the UK towns with the fewest jobs for young people

Rotherham has 46 online vacancies for every 1,000 young people but there are 288 in Cotswold district council areaYoung people in Rotherham face a local jobs market with the fewest suitable opportunit...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
McLaren to build SUVs geared towards Formula One fans with children
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McLaren to build SUVs geared towards Formula One fans with children

Model comes as part of £500m UK investment by firm’s new Abu Dhabi owner that will also fund new factoryMcLaren is gearing up to build an SUV for the first time in its 63-year history, betting that th...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Barclaycard sent me a bill for someone else’s account
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Barclaycard sent me a bill for someone else’s account

It told me a year ago I had applied for a credit card – now it is it telling me my payment is overdueA year ago I got an email from Barclaycard stating that my “application was successful” for a credi...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds
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Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved AfricansThe Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Expect even more potholes on UK roads after summer heatwaves, says RAC
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Expect even more potholes on UK roads after summer heatwaves, says RAC

Extreme weather has made brittle road surfaces more likely to crack, increasing strain on infrastructureThe UK’s dilapidated roads are expected to get even worse, with motorists warned to expect a jum...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
The sinister influence of crypto billionaires on our politics | Letters
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The sinister influence of crypto billionaires on our politics | Letters

Readers respond to the news that Christopher Harborne has given £36m to Reform UK, matching a donation from Ben DeloCryptocurrency is often sold as decentralised and democratic, yet its real behaviour...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
UK retirees with no other income will not pay tax on new £13,000 state pension, No 10 says
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UK retirees with no other income will not pay tax on new £13,000 state pension, No 10 says

Average wages rose by 3.9% in three months to July, signalling pensioners will receive uplift of same percentage in 2027 under triple lockThe government has promised retirees they will be excluded fro...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Pensioners are ‘big winners’ with triple-lock set to rise by 3.9%, lifting state pension to £13,000 – as it happened
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Pensioners are ‘big winners’ with triple-lock set to rise by 3.9%, lifting state pension to £13,000 – as it happened

Wage growth – used to set triple-lock pension – slows to 3.9%, meaning state pension should hit £13,000 next year‘Costing billions’: is the pensions triple lock a lifeline or simply unaffordable?If th...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Jaguar Land Rover in talks to sell Defender to Nato countries
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Jaguar Land Rover in talks to sell Defender to Nato countries

Carmaker builds on relationship with British armed forces by seeking to cash in on Europe’s rearmament driveJaguar Land Rover is in talks with Nato countries about selling them the newly revamped Defe...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
More than 1,000 women invested in companies at heart of Britain’s slave trade
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More than 1,000 women invested in companies at heart of Britain’s slave trade

Women used profits from trafficking of enslaved Africans to secure their families’ futures, research revealsMore than 1,000 women invested in the slave trade, challenging the conventional notion that...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Channel 4 poaches Paramount’s £300m-plus TV ad sales business from Sky
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Channel 4 poaches Paramount’s £300m-plus TV ad sales business from Sky

Exclusive: Move is a big boost for Channel 4, days after it announced it is to cut 340 jobsBusiness live – latest updatesChannel 4 has poached the Channel 5 owner Paramount’s £300m-plus TV advertising...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Parents seek out school uniform deals, cutting average spend to £54.53
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Parents seek out school uniform deals, cutting average spend to £54.53

Overall grocery inflation in Great Britain rises to 2.3%, as Ocado and Lidl gain market shareBusiness live – latest updatesParents and carers in Great Britain spent 12.5% less on school uniform in the...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Make NHS and military uniforms in UK, fashion firms urge Burnham
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Make NHS and military uniforms in UK, fashion firms urge Burnham

More than 1,200 people, including Ben Fogle, sign letter saying domestic contracts will help preserve UK manufacturingLondon fashion week is only days away, but one industry organisation has turned it...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Scrap windfall tax on oil and gas firms early, North Sea industry urges
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Scrap windfall tax on oil and gas firms early, North Sea industry urges

Labour should replace levy in 2027 rather than 2030 as energy bills are poised to surge over the winter, says lobby groupThe North Sea oil and gas industry has called on Labour to scrap the windfall t...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Bank of England urged to slow or halt bond-selling to slash UK borrowing costs
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Bank of England urged to slow or halt bond-selling to slash UK borrowing costs

Economists urge John Healey to press Bank to change policy that is costing the exchequer billions of poundsEconomists have urged the chancellor, John Healey, to press the Bank of England to slow down...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Sky gave my father the hard sell even though he has dementia
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Sky gave my father the hard sell even though he has dementia

He wanted to save money, but it insisted on selling costly packages and seemed not to accept ‘cancel’ as an optionI was helping my father, who has dementia and Parkinson’s disease, reduce his £113.50...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners
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How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners

Tory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave tradeThere is a British culture of celebrating the abolition of slavery without acknowl...

The Guardian - UK News4 weeks ago
AI-linked stocks slide after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development
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AI-linked stocks slide after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development

Donald Trump dismisses attempts to increase controls on artificial intelligence as ‘sick conspiracy’ AI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a s...

The Guardian - UK News4 weeks ago
Government moves to nationalise Speciality Steel UK to protect 1,300 jobs
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Government moves to nationalise Speciality Steel UK to protect 1,300 jobs

Firm, once part of Sanjeev Gupta’s empire, fell into administration last year but has failed to find buyerBusiness news – live updatesOne of Britain’s steelworks is to come into public ownership after...

The Guardian - UK News4 weeks ago