What changes next, and what it costs
The insurer expects earnings per share to grow broadly in line with its 11% target this year and its solvency ratio to reach the high 180s by the end of the year, including the last Direct Line capital savings.
A single licence would replace the separate network, station and train licences now held by Network Rail and publicly owned operators, with the Office of Rail and Road enforcing it.
Around 250 people in England could be eligible for the immunotherapy, which is given alongside chemotherapy and is available on the NHS from Thursday under a confidential price discount.
More deals for buyers with 5% deposits and fewer for those with 40% pushed the average loan-to-value on core products to a record in data going back to November 2011, while the average new mortgage rate rose to 5.89%.
The London and Bristol chip designer is now valued at more than £5 billion, according to the government, and plans to expand in Bristol.
The owner of Bisto, Oxo and Mr Kipling has raised its full-year profit expectations after refinancing its debt more cheaply, and will pay 1.12p a share on 18 December.
Services and business investment drove growth between July and September, while construction shrank. Monthly GDP rose 0.2% in September after a flat August.
Public Health Scotland figures show the biggest gains in the most deprived areas, and the Scottish Government is commissioning a new infant feeding survey.
The Department for Work and Pensions has set out how it will tighten governance of workplace schemes, from record-keeping rules for administrators to a trustee board vote before a sole professional trustee can take over.
Longer reads on how a system works, and where it is heading next.
The CMA will look at competition and Ofcom at media plurality, and the government will bring forward legislation so that the review can also cover on-demand programmes.
Sky's proposed takeover of ITV Media & Entertainment Holdings will now go through a formal public interest review. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy issued a public interest intervention notice on Wednesday 4 November, having told both companies on 15 October that she was minded to do so.
From February 2030 the UK's oldest inflation measure will be calculated using the methods behind CPIH. The change is technical, but it will alter payments on pensions, gilts and student loans for years.
The Retail Prices Index has measured the cost of living in the UK since 1947. It is no longer the government's preferred measure of inflation, yet it is still written into contracts, pension rules and government bonds worth hundreds of billions of pounds. In 2030 the…
The Environment Agency's long-term investment scenarios put current spending at £1.3bn to £1.4bn a year and show what more money would buy in England over the next 100 years.
The money transfer company moved $141bn for 16.2 million customers in six months, with 78% of transfers now arriving instantly, and expects full-year revenue growth in the upper half of its target range.
The insurer expects earnings per share to grow broadly in line with its 11% target this year and its solvency ratio to reach the high 180s by the end of the year, including the last Direct Line capital savings.
Services and business investment drove growth between July and September, while construction shrank. Monthly GDP rose 0.2% in September after a flat August.
The owner of shopping centres and London offices says rents on relettings and renewals are running well above previous levels, and that buying Metrocentre and more of Bluewater will add to earnings growth in the year to March 2028.
Final figures for 2025-26 show councils spent £11.1bn on housing projects and £8.1bn on roads and transport, with capital grants paying for £15.2bn of the work.
Multisave closes on 17 December. The new discounted plans for extra household lines come with fixed price rises written into the contract.
Around 250 people in England could be eligible for the immunotherapy, which is given alongside chemotherapy and is available on the NHS from Thursday under a confidential price discount.
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