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Zuber Issa sells Asda stake and buys EG’s forecourts business

Blackburn-based entrepreneur Zuber Issa has sold his stake in supermarket giant Asda and acquired the forecourt division of the EG Group, the company he co-founded with brother Mohsin in...

Labour woos first-time buyers with mortgage guarantee pledge

8 hours agoBy Kevin Peachey, Cost of living correspondent, BBC News • Lora Jones, Business reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesLabour says it will make permanent a scheme designed to ensure...

Majority of small business owners could still be swayed on election vote – poll

More than half of small business owners could yet change their mind on who to vote for in the upcoming General Election, according to...

Incoming ministers ‘will face UK public services on brink of collapse’

Political parties must be honest with Britain about the immediate crisis of collapsing public services facing the next government, according to a hard-hitting report...

UK Retailers File $1.3 Billion Action Against Amazon for ‘Illegally Misusing Their Data’

Amazon‘s practices around data and algorithms may have Prime-d it for legal trouble—again. The British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA) brought the £1 billion ($1.3 billion)...

Mike Lynch: Autonomy co-founder cleared of fraud in US trial

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been cleared of fraud charges he faced in the United States over the $11bn (£8.6bn) sale of his...

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all fraud charges in Hewlett-Packard trial

The British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was found not guilty on Thursday on all 15 counts of fraud he faced over the $11.1bn purchase...

UK watchdog warns Tories over PM’s ‘£2,000 tax rise’ claim

The UK’s statistics watchdog has warned the Conservatives over Rishi Sunak’s claim that Labour would raise taxes by £2,000, saying it failed to make...

Greek industrialist plots launch of new British energy company

“Let’s not forget that companies, including ours and Octopus, have become big...

Britain’s reliance on foreign energy is a national tragedy

At the same time, the National Grid transmission network is incapable of...

UK retailers suing Amazon for damages up to £1.1bn in ‘watershed’ case

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT stops answering election questions after giving wrong answers

A game-changing generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot used by hundreds of millions...

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