Red flags: how to avoid falling victim to a ‘money mule’ scam

Repercussions of receiving illicit funds, even unwittingly, in your account and passing them on can be long and costly

The race to find a way to recycle old turbine blades from windfarms

Made from glass carbon fibre, they are difficult to break down, but in UK and elsewhere in Europe there are plans to tackle the waste

Boomers think their wealth came from wise choices – this myth needs busting

If Reeves swipes some of the huge gains amassed from property and pensions, the lucky generation cannot argue – but will

‘Dagenham is worried’: London borough in limbo after Smithfield and Billingsgate move axed

Halting of dock redevelopment is big blow to area already hit by uncertainty over Ford site’s future

Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist’s event amid tax review

Chancellor’s invitation criticised as ‘strange timing’ with Treasury looking at whether to raise duties on £12bn sector

UK pension savers urged not to withdraw cash due to budget ‘fear and rumour’

Financial experts express alarm after jump in sums people taking out of retirement pots amid ‘jitters’ about tax

Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes

Being a carmaker where ‘everything is connected’ has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems

Optus confirms fourth death after CEO reveals warnings of failed triple zero calls not escalated

Emergency calls were offline for nearly 14 hours, during which four people died – including an eight-week-old baby

‘Incompetent’: SA premier slams Optus as eight-week-old baby among three who died when triple zero calls failed

Peter Malinauskas criticised the telco for its communications after two people in South Australia and one in Western Australia died during the network upgrade

BHP blames ‘coal tax’ for job layoffs. But there’s obvious reasons coalmines aren’t as profitable anymore

Rising wages and costs of having to dig deeper for minerals – not royalty payments – are behind job cuts in a sector that appears to be in decline

Trump says Xi Jinping has agreed to approve TikTok deal, but details unclear

Trump’s statement suggests preliminary agreement between leaders in the first direct contact between them since June

Value of Australia’s coal and gas exports will plunge 50% in five years, treasury modelling forecasts

Figure amounts to a $60bn fall by 2030 under any future scenario of emissions reduction in Australia, modelling predicts

Gordon Thompson obituary

Other lives: Electrical engineer who worked on the development of printed circuit boards

Pound slides after UK government borrowing jumps in August and insolvencies rise – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as August borrowing hits highest level since 2020

Overbaked prices? What a Greggs sausage roll and Pret meal deal say about how much Britons will pay

Food inflation pushes consumers to the limits of what they are willing to spend, costing retailers sales