Business & Finance

Bitcoin has surged to a new all-time high - breaking through $111,000 for the first time.

The M&S website was down in the early hours of this morning - hours after the retailer revealed it's facing a £300m hit to profits following last month's ransomware attack.

The pace of inflation surged last month to an annual rate of 3.5%, its highest level in more than a year, according to official figures which pointed to hikes to essential household bills.

Governments "have to be fair" to pensioners but there is a case for people on the top rate of income tax to be excluded from winter fuel payments, Gordon Brown has said.

Johnson Matthey, the London-listed industrial group, will on Thursday announce the sale of a unit involved in the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as its board fends off pressure from an American activist investor.

A developer of AI-driven software used by the defence and intelligence communities and backed by a fund which employs the former defence secretary, Sir Ben Wallace, is racing to secure millions of pounds of new funding.

A prolific shoplifter has been banned from every Greggs in England and Wales after being caught stealing from there seven times, police have said.

Inflation is the most relatable economic metric.

The boss of one of the UK's biggest banks says it is being attacked "all the time" by online criminals and he is kept up at night by cyber threats.

Government commissioners have been accused of "sabotaging" negotiations to end the long-running bin strike in Birmingham.