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Lloyds Banking Group to close 95 more branches across UK
Lloyds Banking Group will shut 95 more branches across Lloyds, Halifax and Bank...
Norfolk police chief calls for tougher penalties for pr...
Norfolk’s chief constable has urged swifter and tougher sentencing for repeat s...
Tangible raises $4.3m seed round to unlock scalable deb...
Fintech startup Tangible has secured $4.3m in seed funding led by Pale Blue Dot...
Ford overtaken by BYD as China reshapes global car indu...
Ford has been overtaken in global sales by China’s BYD, highlighting the rapid ...
City stalwart Schroders to be sold to US rival in £9.9b...
Schroders has agreed a £9.9bn takeover by US asset manager Nuveen, ending more ...
Award-winning builder quits UK for Switzerland, due to ...
An award-winning UK tradesperson is relocating to Switzerland, warning that ris...
NatWest to expand Accelerator community to 50,000 UK en...
NatWest plans to expand its Accelerator community to 50,000 UK entrepreneurs in...
Bitcoin falls below $70,000, wiping out post-election g...
Bitcoin has fallen below $70,000, wiping out post-election gains as institution...
Vauxhall owner takes €22bn hit after electric car u-turn
Vauxhall owner Stellantis has booked a €22bn hit after reversing its electric v...
Bank of England Governor ‘shocked’ by Mandelson leaks t...
Andrew Bailey says he was shocked by claims Peter Mandelson leaked sensitive fi...
Sidekick raises £7.8m Series A to scale private-bank st...
UK wealth-tech Sidekick has raised £7.8m in Series A funding to scale investmen...
UK invests £36m in AI supercomputer to boost research a...
The UK Government has announced a £36m investment to expand Cambridge’s DAWN AI...
£80m student skills investment to strengthen UK defence...
The UK Government has announced an £80m investment to expand student places in ...
AI voice company ElevenLabs valued at $11bn after $500m...
UK-based AI voice company ElevenLabs has raised $500m in new funding, tripling ...
Lawhive raises $60m to scale AI-native consumer law fir...
UK legaltech Lawhive has raised $60m in Series B funding to expand its AI-nativ...
Retail sales growth to slow across US and Europe in 202...
Retail sales growth in the US, UK, France and Germany is set to slow in 2026 as...
