John Lewis is expanding its café and restaurant offering in a renewed effort to drive footfall, enhance the in-store experience, and re-establish itself as a destination retailer for middle England. The department store group has announced plans to open five new cafés and restaurants across its estate this year, reflecting what it called the “growing importance of food and drink” ...
More than £18 million has been raised for grassroots sport across the UK since 2018, thanks to a trailblazing partnership between Crowdfunder and Sport England — a milestone celebrated last week at a special event in the House of Commons. The event brought together MPs, funding partners, sports bodies, and community leaders, who gathered to reflect on the success of ...
The Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates from 4.5% to 4.25% is welcome news for mortgage holders and homebuyers, but less so for savers. The move, the fourth cut since August, comes amid global economic uncertainty, including concerns over Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, and easing inflation. The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted narrowly to reduce the base rate, ...
Vulnerable beneficiaries are being left without essential support as charities across the UK are forced to scale back services or halt expansion plans due to surging operational costs, according to leading audit, tax and business advisory firm Blick Rothenberg. The warning comes amid growing concern that increased National Insurance Contributions (NICs) and the rising National Minimum Wage (NMW) are placing ...
British Airways parent company International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) has committed to a massive $23 billion aircraft order, brushing off concerns about softening transatlantic travel demand amid President Trump’s escalating global trade wars. In a confident update to investors, the £14 billion FTSE 100 airline group said it remained on track to hit its €4.6 billion profit forecast for 2025, ...
Dr. Malini Saba is an internationally respected entrepreneur, psychologist, and philanthropist whose multifaceted career spans over 30 years and numerous global industries. As the founder of Saba Group, she has led pioneering ventures across sectors including agriculture, real estate, fintech, commodities, and healthcare. She is also the Chair and CEO of the Saba Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization she funds ...
Clients rarely mean harm when they ask for small tweaks to a polished PDF, but designers know the chaos that request can unleash. That static, perfect PDF—meticulously aligned, font-stable, color-profiled—is suddenly being copied, pasted, and edited in apps that were never part of the original plan. And if that client lives inside Word or PowerPoint? Forget it. Manual conversions are ...
Salmon Scotland, the trade body representing the UK’s largest food export, has called on the UK Government to pursue further negotiations with the United States after it was confirmed that a 10% tariff on Scottish salmon exports will remain in place under the newly announced UK-US trade deal. Speaking after discussions with UK Food Security Minister Daniel Zeichner, Tavish Scott, ...
The UK’s green energy ambitions have suffered a serious setback after Danish energy giant Ørsted cancelled plans for Hornsea 4, one of the country’s largest proposed offshore windfarms, citing soaring supply chain costs and financial risks. Hornsea 4, expected to power 1 million homes with its 2.4GW capacity, was the fourth phase of the Hornsea windfarm project off the Yorkshire ...
Electric vehicle (EV) sales in the UK continued to surge in April, with battery electric cars claiming more than one in five new registrations, even as petrol and diesel car sales sharply declined — a development hailed by campaigners as a “clear signal” of public support for the shift to cleaner transport. According to the latest Electric Car Count from ...