Which company drove you crazy in 2015? Cast your vote in this year's Wooden Spoon Awards
Wooden Spoon is the coveted award for terrible customer service that Britain’s big firms are terrified of winning – and this is your chance to vote.
Wooden Spoon is the coveted award for terrible customer service that Britain’s big firms are terrified of winning – and this is your chance to vote.
The sector is offering thirst-quenching returns, with the rarest whiskies gaining 15 per cent in value last year, but there are significant risks so make sure you don't choke.
Stock markets worldwide dived into the red amid a commodity price rout that saw the cost of oil touch below 40 US dollars a barrel for the first time since February 2009.
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In what would be the biggest shake-up to planning protections for more than three decades, the ribbon of green belt land around towns could be built on more freely.
Total production output across the UK increased by 1.7 per in October compared with a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said.
Nearly half of all energy switchers last month moved from one of the big six firms – British Gas, EDF, E.On, Npower, Scottish Power and SSE – to try a smaller challenger, research shows.
The average price of a home across the country is currently £204,552, the latest Halifax House Price Index said.
In an Investor Day announcement, Anglo confirmed it will cut its assets by 60 per cent, reduce its workforce to 50,000 from 135,000 and re-form into three divisions.
Thousands of homes have been flooded with up to seven inches after Storm Desmond battered the UK. But what do you do if your home or business has been or is at risk of flooding?
In opening deals, the FTSE 100 index was down 11.9 points, or 0.2 per cent at 6,211.6. The UK blue-chip index closed 14.77 points lower at 6,223.52.
City cars can be remorselessly sensible, a far cry from fast-road excitement in the sun. But the Fiat 500 and Skoda Citogp both have some flair about them. Question is, which one is best?
The gong has been awarded for her time as chief executive of UK lender Santander between December 2010 and September 2014.
Insurance giant Axa said its call centres had been swamped by frantic customers, with calls to its household claims team quadrupling over the weekend.
Brent crude futures slumped more than 5 per cent to $40.7 a barrel, and traded at the lowest level since February 2009, while US crude fell 6 per cent to below $38.
Shares in the AIM listed company, which also produces upmarket umbrellas, fell 7p to 210p after its fabric printing business in Lancaster suffered ‘substantial flooding’.
In a trading update the outsourcing giant announced that profit this year would reach £95m – better than the £90m it expected – but that it would fall to £50m in 2016.
Recruitment company ManpowerGroup said Christmas has come early for so-called cyber-spooks who have seen their wages soar amid booming demand for their work.
The fact that so many of Britain’s biggest enterprises are controlled from overseas means that investment income, which might have flowed back to the UK, stays offshore.
Shares in the supermarket giant fell nearly 3.5 per cent after Jill Easterbrook said she would leave early next year having only been made group business transformation director in January.
The service, called M-Pesa, will be branded Vodafone Cash in the West African state. It allows users to load money on to their phones, just as pay-as-you-go customers can top up.
The shares closed 6.9p higher at 169.9p on hearing that Big Apple fund manager Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb has taken a 5.4 per cent stake in the Bolton-based business.
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