High taxation and policy flip-flopping have left it hard to justify the investment needed to extract oil from the UK’s remaining reserves

Britain’s most celebrated architect is giving back to the city that made him by designing Manchester United’s new stadium. Next, he has sights on Mars

The venture by the X-Files and Sex Education actress arrives at 350 Marks & Spencer stores this week, but the brand has not been without controversy

South East Water’s John Halsall on fixing pipes inside customers’ homes, why he understands calls for nationalisation, and the scourge of ‘visible leaks’

Young talents lose out when AI writes and reads job applications. More and more employers are escaping A4

London’s blue-chip index rose 3.5 per cent in July as investors moved away from technology stocks and towards miners, banks and defence firms

After more than half a century of production, the energy giant says it is time to leave UK waters

Chief executive Meg O’Neill says the business would be ‘better positioned as part of another company’, sparking recriminations over the basin’s high tax regime

More than 600 jobs at risk as the bookmaker says ‘the current fiscal and regulatory environment’ made the decision unavoidable

Britain’s second-largest supermarket offloads the troubled business to retail veterans for a fraction of the £1.4 billion it paid a decade ago