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Tempest fighter jet’s new design unveiled amid doubts over project

The Global Combat Air Programme, as Tempest is officially known, hopes to...

Business class: UK cycling industry struggles despite road and track success

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John Lewis turns to Stanley Tucci in bid to win over shoppers

John Lewis is to start stocking dozens of new homeware brands -...

HMV boss claims more people buying DVDs and Blu-ray

More shoppers are buying Blu-Ray and DVDs of movies and TV shows despite the rise in streaming platforms, the boss of HMV has claimed.Phil...

‘It smacks of a potential grand plan’: How Royal Mail is poised to create the Amazon of Europe

Kretinsky’s ambitious plans have been backed up by a fevered acquisition spree...

Growing inflation in UK’s service-based economy was never going to be easy | Larry Elliott

I’m due a haircut and in the past week received a message from my barber containing the news that the price will be 10%...

Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks

Indonesian workers who paid thousands of pounds to travel to Britain and pick fruit at a farm supplying most big supermarkets have been sent...

Rachel Reeves pledges ‘big bang’ for private pension funds

Labour has promised to bring forward wide-ranging reforms of the £2tn private pensions industry in a review that aims “to boost investment, increase pension...

The end is in sight for Keir Starmer’s honeymoon period

Labour says its hugely controversial plan to add 20pc VAT to school...

Fintech Ebury taps Goldman for £2bn UK IPO

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Fintech myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.Payments group Ebury has appointed investment bankers...

Supply chain squeeze threatens to blow UK wind power plan off course

At the port of Nigg on the Cromarty Firth, a vessel arrives from Hull to deliver 108m-long Siemens Gamesa blades for the 60 turbines...

How another Trump White House can work to Britain’s advantage

All this could be no more than wishful thinking. Trump 2.0 may...

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