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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Deloitte LLP (United Kingdom)
    Deloitte warns on ‘challenging’ conditions despite £1mn partner pay

    UK profit per partner at the accountancy firm remains highest so far of the Big Four

    A man walks past a Deloitte sign
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    UK immigration
    Braverman questions UN treaty’s definition of refugee persecution

    UNHCR insists convention is ‘as relevant as when it was adopted’ after UK home secretary calls for reform

    Home secretary Suella Braverman makes speech on immigration at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    UK police
    London policing crisis stoked by rejection of ‘mutual aid’ by other forces

    Leicestershire and Thames Valley confirm they turned down calls to help cover depleted resources in the capital

    An armed police officer in London, England
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Metropolitan Police Service UK
    Met Police ends army cover after some firearms officers return to duty

    Force chief Sir Mark Rowley grapples with distrust from capital’s rank-and-file officers as well as public

    Close-up of guns being held by armed police officers in London
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    News in-depthAccounting & Consulting services
    Big Four shed UK staff after pandemic hiring boom

    ‘Overhiring’ in some areas has led consultancies to make job cuts, say recruiters and analysts

    Montage of commuter in London, EY, Pwc, KPMG and Deloitte
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    Ministries hire in private counsel for affairs of state

    More private law firms are being drawn into government work

  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    UK politics
    Michael Gove warns over backlash to green policies and wealth inequality

    Levelling-up secretary cites rise of AFD in Germany in FT Weekend Festival appearance

  • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    Starmer’s Labour has ‘a lot to learn’ from Blair, Reeves says

    Party’s platform must differ from New Labour era because it faces different circumstances, shadow chancellor says

    shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Mohamed Al Fayed
    Businessman Mohamed Al Fayed dies aged 94

    Egypt-born former owner of Harrods became controversial figure in Britain

  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    Rail
    Italian rail group aims to launch high-speed links between European cities

    State-owned operator FS suggests a Brussels to Amsterdam route could be extended to Paris and Berlin

    A high-speed Trenitalia train at Milan railway station
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    UK politics
    Labour faces test of by-election appeal in Scotland after ex-SNP MP ousted

    Constituents trigger recall vote after Margaret Ferrier was found to have broken Covid travel rules

  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Financial Reporting Council
    UK accounting watchdog appoints Richard Moriarty as chief executive

    Financial Reporting Council in the process of making significant reforms to improve auditing

    Richard Moriarty
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Legal services
    Profits stall at London’s ‘magic circle’ law firms during US expansion

    Rising salary costs and decline in dealmaking hits earnings at City’s international law firms

    A view of the building where Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has its office on Bishopsgate in the City of London
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    Social affairs
    Number in temporary housing in England hits 25-year high

    Homelessness rising sharply as rental and mortgage costs soar, official figures show

    People walk outside a hand-painted sign for a food bank in Leeds
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Metropolitan Police Service UK
    Met Police vows to stamp out corruption after Daniel Morgan apology

    Police and relatives of murdered private detective reach settlement more than three decades after unsolved crime

  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Clifford Chance LLP
    Clifford Chance rules out merger as revenues top £2bn for first time

    UK law firm’s average profit per equity partner drops slightly to £2mn

    The Clifforc Chance logo on a tablet
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Allen & Overy LLP
    Allen & Overy warns of headwinds as profits drop

    Fall comes as firm embarks on merger with New York’s Shearman & Sterling

    The London headquarters of Allen & Overy
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    News in-depthTravel & leisure industry
    Can the post-pandemic travel boom endure?

    Tourists are swallowing higher prices but ever tighter household budgets pose risks for hotels and airlines

  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
    The Big Read
    Eurostar in recovery: is there light at the end of the tunnel?

    Under a new chief executive, the group focuses on core routes to plot a path back to growth post-pandemic

  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    News in-depthClimate change
    Welsh town left on road to nowhere after Cardiff scraps new bypasses

    Environmentalists hail ‘world-leading’ curbs on new highway projects as angry locals worry about economic impact and increased pollution

  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    Heathrow summer strike threat lifted as improved pay deal agreed

    Airport security staff call off action but junior doctors announce longest walkout in NHS history

    Passengers in the arrivals hall of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    Maritime accidents and safety
    Stockton Rush’s vision ends in tragedy for Titan submersible

    Supporter of risk-taking entrepreneur behind doomed Titanic mission compares him to Wright brothers flight pioneers

    Pilot Randy Holt, right, communicates with the support boat as he and Stockton Rush, left, CEO and Co-Founder of OceanGate, dive in the company’s Antipodes submersible
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    Maritime accidents and safety
    Rescuers find ‘debris’ in submersible hunt

    US and Canadian teams were making last push to find crew of five which went missing during a dive to the Titanic wreck

  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    Maritime accidents and safety
    Search for missing submersible focuses on ‘underwater noises’

    US coastguard warns no guarantee that sounds detected by sonar buoys are coming from vessel

    The Titan submersible
  • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
    Maritime accidents and safety
    Missing Titanic tourist submersible has about 40 hours of oxygen left

    US coast guard says search efforts have not yielded anything in frantic hunt to save five passengers on board

    OceanGate’s Titan submersible, which went missing less than two hours into its mission to visit the wreck of the Titanic
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