February 17, 2025

Business

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Motor Fuel Group-owner plots sale of stake

The private equity backer of Motor Fuel Group (MFG), one of Britain’s biggest petrol forecourt empires, is exploring the sale of a stake in a deal that could value it at about £7bn.

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Cash-strapped Thames Water launches appeal over bill

Crisis-hit Thames Water has launched a bid to charge its customers more over the next five years than the industry regulator will allow, arguing it has been unfairly treated.

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NHS could have own non-brand baby formula:

Regulators have proposed sweeping changes for the baby formula industry, saying high prices and branding are leading to “poor outcomes” for parents.

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Is the Bank of England running out

Deep under the Bank of England, in a network of vaults into which cameras are rarely admitted, sits the world’s second biggest known trove of gold.

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The rise of unequal inheritance (and what

In what sounds like a plot straight out of Succession, there is a rise in parents leaving more in their will for one child than another.

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First-time buyers up by a fifth, major

The number of first-time buyers rose by almost a fifth last year, according to data from Halifax.

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Why being single costs thousands more each

Valentine’s Day might be a gift-giving occasion your wallet could do without, but it’s thousands of pounds cheaper than being alone.

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Risk of rising US prices could be

Taken at face value Donald Trump’s embrace of reciprocal tariffs is a declaration of total trade war, that would amount to perhaps the single biggest peacetime shock to global commerce.

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Farage explores criminal claim over NatWest debanking

The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is exploring launching private criminal proceedings against NatWest Group over the debanking scandal which resulted in the lender’s former chief losing her job.

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In The Style is out of time

In The Style is on the brink of insolvency less than two years after the then London-listed online fashion retailer was forced into a fire sale to a family office investor.

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Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”

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Telegram says its chief executive Pavel Durov has “nothing to hide” after he was arrested in France, adding the charges against him are “absurd”.

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Extra two million NHS appointments in Labour’s first five months, figures show

Sir Keir Starmer has hailed a “milestone” in his plan to fix the NHS as figures show an extra two million appointments were delivered during Labour’s first five months in office.

Nothing quite makes the point about military irrelevance than being left out of the room

Not invited to American talks with Russia on the future of Ukraine, European leaders are holding a hastily convened meeting of their own on Monday.

‘Whole cabinet’ recognises need to spend more on defence, minister says

The whole government recognises the need to spend more on defence, including Chancellor Rachel Reeves, a cabinet minister has said.

UK and US ‘don’t have to agree on everything’ minister says over JD Vance’s swipe at free speech

A Christian cabinet minister has said he doesn’t agree with JD Vance’s claim that “basic liberties of religious Britons” are under threat.

Starmer’s diplomatic contortions to keep Trump and Ukraine happy are getting more extreme

Unlike Theresa May, Sir Keir Starmer will not be the first world leader to set foot in the Trump White House, but he has at least now secured an invitation to Washington.

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