Is UK maternity pay excessive and how much does it cost the taxpayer?
After Kemi Badenoch’s comments on maternity pay, how does the UK compare with other countries?
UK house prices hit highest annual growth since 2022
Nationwide says yearly rise in house prices increased by 3.2% in September putting the average home at £266,094
Half of Britons plan to ration energy use this winter as 10% bill rise looms
Survey shows 46% of people will use less energy than needed after price cap rise fuels average £149 bill increase
Number of UK estate agents going bust rises almost a third in one year
Higher interest rates puts further pressure on property market, with overall transactions at lowest level in a decade
BT pockets £105m in first ever recycling deal for surplus copper cables
Telecoms firm has so far extracted 3,300 tonnes of potential 200,000 tonnes of cables amid £15bn rollout of full-fibre broadband
Are heat pumps the future or just a lot of hot air?
After 250,000 installations across the UK, we look at the devices central to Labour’s vision of a ‘home upgrade revolution’
Rachel Reeves reconsiders end to non-dom tax status over OBR forecast fears
Chancellor says Treasury will be ‘pragmatic, not ideological’ amid claims the policy would not raise predicted £2.6bn
Don’t kill London’s junior stock market, chancellor
An estimated £1.1bn is there for the Treasury if IHT is cut, but Aim is a source of funding for growing companies
Open sesame? Sainsbury’s and Tesco drop lids from pots of hummus
Unhappy shoppers complain of waste and inconvenience after peel-off film cover is introduced to reduce plastics use
Ticket touts cost UK music fans £145m a year, says O2
Telecoms firm calls for crackdown after it fended off 50,000 attacks from automated ‘bots’ in a six-week period
Yorkshire has lowest ratio of bank branches to people in UK, says Which?
Consumer group says 6,161 branches have been shut since 2015 and there are 30 constituencies without one
US sues Visa for monopoly on debit-card use affecting ‘price of nearly everything’
Government claims firm stifles competition by threatening merchants with high fees and pays off potential rivals
Lack of City of London oversight hurting efforts to halt dirty money, FCA warns
Bodies responsible for monitoring accounting and legal sectors not doing enough to stop money laundering, watchdog says
Nationwide to allow first-time buyers to borrow six times their earnings
Building society ramps up mortgage price war with ‘gamechanging’ move, as it also cuts rates
Do packaged bank accounts deliver value for money?
As banks raise fees customers pay in exchange for a range of perks, it’s time to ask: Are you are really getting your money’s worth?