By LIVE COMMENTARY Updated: 13:13 GMT, 20 November 2024 Consumer price inflation accelerated to its highest level since April last month, fresh data from the Office for National Statistics shows. The Consumer Price Index rose to 2.3 per cent in October from 1.7 per cent in September, higher than the 2.2 per cent forecast by…
By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 22:22 GMT, 19 November 2024 Shares in Imperial Brands hit their highest level for more than five years as the tobacco giant behind the likes of Golden Virginia and Lambert & Butler cashed in on booming demand for vapes. The FTSE 100 group saw sales of so-called next generation products (NGPs)…
By ED HOLT Published: 11:19 GMT, 19 November 2024 | Updated: 17:39 GMT, 19 November 2024 A Polish film festival has been thrown into disarray after its founder lamented the ‘mediocre’ work of women and criticised calls for more women to enter the industry. The Camerimage film festival – which opened this weekend in the…
The retailer reported a £10.9m pre-tax loss in the six months ending August Turnover fell by a fifth to £72.4m as the firm streamlined its product offering By HARRY WISE Updated: 13:58 GMT, 19 November 2024 Revolution Beauty slumped to a first-half loss following a strategy shake-up that has seen major stock clearance activity and…
By JAMIE BULLEN and JAMES TAPSFIELD and DAVID WILCOCK and GREG HEFFER Published: 06:29 GMT, 19 November 2024 | Updated: 06:57 GMT, 19 November 2024 Advertisement More than 10,000 farmers including Jeremy Clarkson are expected to march in London today to protest against Labour’s inheritance tax (IHT) shake-up that have left them ‘betrayed’. It comes…
By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:00 GMT, 18 November 2024 HSBC is preparing to axe hundreds of senior bankers over the coming weeks as part of a sweeping overhaul by boss Georges Elhedery. The cost-cutting move – in the run-up to Christmas – will see managers asked to reapply for roles in the bank’s newly…
By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 18 November 2024 Investors: Luther actor Elba, 52, and his wife Sabrina, 35 A Firm backed by Idris Elba that makes meal replacements for those who do not want to cook has seen sales and profits soar. Huel, which sells drinks and bars stuffed full…
Sweden is sending out five million pamphlets to residents urging them to prepare for the possibility of war, with instructions on how to stockpile food and even seek shelter during a nuclear attack, as fears grow of a conflict between Russia and NATO. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Stockholm has repeatedly urged Swedes…
By HAMISH MCRAE Updated: 10:58 GMT, 18 November 2024 The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, wants to get more of us into work. That’s understandable, for the more people in employment, the more people there are paying taxes – and making the Government’s dreadful Budget arithmetic look a little less glum. But how? Up to now, most…
By RUTH SUNDERLAND FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 21:56 GMT, 17 November 2024 The North-South divide is, as readers of Mrs Gaskell well know, nothing new. The UK is one of the most geographically unequal countries in the developed world on some measures. Attempts to iron out regional disparities have been going on since the…
