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Britain’s green start-ups face ‘triple squeeze’ as early-stage funding crashes to five-year low

Britain’s green start-ups face ‘triple squeeze’ as earl...

Early-stage funding for Britain's clean tech start-ups halved in 2025, hitting ...

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Bristol leads UK innovation jobs boom as the regions close the gap on London

Bristol leads UK innovation jobs boom as the regions cl...

New research lays bare a striking paradox: workforces at Britain's most innovat...

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Whisky tariffs lifted as Trump hails royal state visit

Whisky tariffs lifted as Trump hails royal state visit

Britain's distillers have been handed an unexpected fillip after Donald Trump a...

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Britain doesn’t have a start-up problem, it has a stay-at-home problem

Britain doesn’t have a start-up problem, it has a stay-...

Britain launches companies brilliantly. It just can’t keep them. Richard Alvin ...

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Last orders for British hospitality: Are Reeves and Starmer trying to kill the UK restaurant sector?

Last orders for British hospitality: Are Reeves and Sta...

From a £3.4 billion National Insurance hit to a refusal to cut hospitality VAT,...

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Tesla accelerates European comeback as EV sales surge past one-in-five milestone

Tesla accelerates European comeback as EV sales surge p...

Tesla sales jump 84% in Europe as electric vehicles now account for more than o...

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UK borrowing slips to four-year low but Middle East tensions threaten Reeves’s fiscal plan

UK borrowing slips to four-year low but Middle East ten...

UK government borrowing dropped to £12.6bn in March, a four-year low, as debt i...

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Employers hit with £28bn National Insurance Shock as rate rise bites harder than treasury forecast

Employers hit with £28bn National Insurance Shock as ra...

Employers' National Insurance Contributions have soared by £28bn in a single ye...

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L’Oréal banks on the ‘lipstick effect’ as anxious shoppers reach for affordable luxuries

L’Oréal banks on the ‘lipstick effect’ as anxious shopp...

The world's largest cosmetics group shrugs off the drag from the Iran war, post...

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UK employers saddled with sharpest tax rise in developed world, OECD finds

UK employers saddled with sharpest tax rise in develope...

Britain's tax wedge jumped 2.45 points in a year — 16 times the OECD average — ...

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Tesco urges ministers to ease cost burden as Iran conflict clouds outlook

Tesco urges ministers to ease cost burden as Iran confl...

Tesco chief Ken Murphy urges ministers to ease tax and energy costs as the groc...

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Seres files patent for voice-activated in-car toilet as china’s EV makers battle for attention

Seres files patent for voice-activated in-car toilet as...

Chongqing-based EV manufacturer Seres has patented a voice-controlled in-vehicl...

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Finance chiefs sound alarm over Anthropic’s ‘mythos’ AI model amid cyber-security fears

Finance chiefs sound alarm over Anthropic’s ‘mythos’ AI...

Finance ministers, central bankers and Barclays' chief executive warn that Anth...

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Hormuz reopens: what Iran’s climbdown means for British SMEs

Hormuz reopens: what Iran’s climbdown means for British...

Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, sending crude be...

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Why ADHD and entrepreneurship can drive success and create challenges in equal measure

Why ADHD and entrepreneurship can drive success and cre...

There is a stage in entrepreneurship that many founders and senior leaders stru...

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OpenAI pulls plug on Stargate UK, leaving Starmer’s AI superpower pitch in tatters

OpenAI pulls plug on Stargate UK, leaving Starmer’s AI ...

OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre investment, citing sky-high Briti...