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Dacia’s new Bigster is big on comfort and a lot of car for your £25,000: RAY MASSEY

By RAY MASSEY Updated: 22:02 GMT, 28 March 2025 Its name is the Bigster, but after two days of driving one, I think the latest flagship from budget brand Dacia ... read more

MARKET WATCH: BA owner in free fall after transatlantic crackdown

By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 March 2025 Shares in British Airways owner IAG fell after a crackdown by the competition watchdog on trans... read more

Fast fashion giant Boohoo in Debenhams rebrand

By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 March 2025 Boohoo will trade as Debenhams from next week despite opposition from Mike Ashley. The fast fas... read more

What the Spring Statement means for your finances: This is Money Podcast

By THIS IS MONEY Updated: 19:46 GMT, 28 March 2025 Rachel Reeves is back to where she started after the Spring Statement, with her £9.9billion of budget h... read more

Gold nears $3,100 as investors run for cover from Trump tariffs

Analysts have widely credited the rising gold price to economic unpredictability  By HARRY WISE Updated: 11:32 GMT, 28 March 2025 Gold prices have hit yet ... read more

Chelsea’s Todd Boehly eyes takeover of dozens of local British newspapers

Boehly’s Eldridge Media Holdings is considering a bid for National World By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 11:30 GMT, 28 March 2025 Co-owner of Chelsea Football Club... read more

Got a broken smart meter? You can now get £40 if it’s not fixed in 90 days

By RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS Updated: 23:03 GMT, 27 March 2025 Households with broken smart meters will automatically receive £40 compensation from their ener... read more

Blow to Chancellor’s budget plans as borrowing costs climb to three-month high

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 23:02 GMT, 27 March 2025 Borrowing costs climbed to a three-month high yesterday, in a blow to Rachel Reeves’s Budget pla... read more

MARKET WATCH: Naked Wines cheers shares surge as it unveils plan to return to sales growth

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 27 March 2025 Shares in Naked Wines soared after it unveiled a strategic plan to return to sales g... read more

Cinema bookings soar: Rom-coms steal the show as viewers go mad about Bridget Jones

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 27 March 2025 Cinema bookings soared last month as blockbusters including Bridget Jones: Mad About... read more

Foreign predators swooping on British companies at rate not seen for three years

By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 22:00 GMT, 27 March 2025 Foreign predators are swooping on British companies at a rate not seen for three years. In a report that will f... read more

Tesla hits major UK sales milestone – here’s how many of its EVs have been delivered since 2014…

By ROB HULL Updated: 15:47 GMT, 27 March 2025 Tesla has confirmed it has reached a major sales milestone in the UK as Britons continue to snap up the brand&rsqu... read more

Buying state pension top-ups: Everything you need to know – This is Money’s latest coverage

By TANYA JEFFERIES Updated: 09:37 GMT, 27 March 2025 A crucial deadline to fill gaps in state pension records and boost your payments is looming on 5 April. A s... read more

LV dishes out £29m in bonuses to 280,000 eligible members

By JANE DENTON Updated: 09:24 GMT, 27 March 2025 LV distributed £29million in bonuses to 280,000 eligible members during the past year, newly publish... read more

Boost for BP as bosses get a vote of confidence after ditching green targets

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 07:42 GMT, 27 March 2025 BP bosses received a much-needed boost as an advisory firm backed the re-election of... read more

Babcock seals £1bn British Army Challenger 2 tanks deal as Reeves fires up defence spending

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:05 GMT, 26 March 2025 Defence giant Babcock yesterday received a £1billion boost as ministers extended a contract to m... read more

Housing market set to slow after biggest price rise for two years

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 26 March 2025 The housing market is set to slow after the biggest price rise for two years. The va... read more

MARKET WATCH: Investors move out of Vistry as troubled housebuilder axes dividend

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 March 2025 Shares in troubled builder Vistry tumbled as profits slumped and it axed its dividen... read more

Business is fed up with Labour’s higher taxes and new workers’ rights, says CBI chief

By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 March 2025 Higher taxes and new rights for workers have left bosses ‘pretty p****d off’, according to the he... read more

Stamp duty on shares to rake in £24bn over next five years – despite criticism it stifles investing in UK-listed firms

By RICHARD MARSDEN Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 March 2025 Stamp duty on shares is set to rake in nearly £24billion over the next five years – despite cri... read more

NS&I boosts targets in Spring Statement but it’s still more likely to cut rates than boost them

By LEE BOYCE Updated: 16:03 GMT, 26 March 2025 National Savings and Investments has revealed a bumper net financing target of £12billion in the Spring Sta... read more

Self-employed given harsher penalties for late tax payments in Spring Statement

VAT and Itsa taxpayers will see late payment fines given by HMRC increase  By ANGHARAD CARRICK Updated: 14:23 GMT, 26 March 2025 More taxpayers will face h... read more

Morrisons says it needs to save £1bn to deal with rising costs

By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 13:12 GMT, 26 March 2025 Morrisons has boosted its medium-term savings target to £1billion, as the supermarket faces growing costs ... read more

Morrisons says it needs to save £1bn to deal with rising costs

By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 12:10 GMT, 26 March 2025 Morrisons has boosted its medium-term savings target to £1billion, as the supermarket faces growing costs ... read more

Spring Statement live updates: Rachel Reeves to unveil brutal welfare cuts as poll reveals damning verdict on Labour’s handling of economy

By JAMIE BULLEN and JAMES TAPSFIELD and DAVID WILCOCK and GREG HEFFER and SIMON LAMBERT FOR THIS IS MONEY Updated: 08:41 GMT, 26 March 2025 Rachel Reeves is exp... read more

Boost for City as Smiths Group pledges to keep London listing – for now

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 25 March 2025 Smiths Group offered the City some lukewarm support yesterday by saying it would sta... read more

Woodford probe delay lands FCA in hot water as 500,000 investors remain the dark over fund scandal

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:01 GMT, 25 March 2025 The City watchdog has come under fire over the Neil Woodford scandal as MPs and peers said 500,000 inv... read more

Shell halves green spending as boss Wael Sawan eyes ‘obscene’ £15m pay bonanza

By JESSICA CLARK Updated: 22:01 GMT, 25 March 2025 Shell’s chief executive was paid £8.6million in 2024 – and could scoop as much as £15... read more

MARKET WATCH: Could GSK jab lower risk of Dementia? Drugs giant to trial its shingles jab as a cure for the disease

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 25 March 2025 GSK is studying a group of more than a million older adults in the UK to see if its ... read more

AG Barr enjoys record year as English customers buy more Irn-Bru

Higher soft drink sales offset weaker on-trade revenue from its Funkin cocktails By HARRY WISE Updated: 12:37 GMT, 25 March 2025 Irn-Bru producer AG Barr enjoye... read more

Factories suffer worst performance in 18 months as Labour’s tax hikes and Trump’s trade wars take their toll

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:01 GMT, 24 March 2025 Britain’s manufacturing sector is shrinking at its fastest pace for 18 months as Labour’s ... read more

Bank of England to test UK’s biggest lenders on trade meltdown scenarios amid concerns over Trump’s tariffs

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:01 GMT, 24 March 2025 The Bank of England is preparing to test whether UK lenders are able to cope in the event of a global ... read more

DNA testing firm users urged to delete data as it files for bankruptcy protection in the US

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 March 2025 Users of DNA testing firm 23andMe have been urged to delete their data after the com... read more

Hedge fund Elliott weighs fresh action in the London Metal Exchange nickel scandal

By JESSICA CLARK Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 March 2025 A hedge fund is considering taking further action against the London Metal Exchange (LME) over a controversia... read more

MARKET WATCH: Sir Martin Sorrell sounds alarm over tariffs as he scoops £500,000 dividend

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 March 2025 Sir Martin Sorrell will scoop £540,000 after his advertising agency unveiled i... read more

BYD overtakes Tesla as sales top $100bn: Record revenue for Chinese car maker while Elon Musk’s firm is hit by slump in Europe

By JESSICA CLARK Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 March 2025 Sales at Chinese electric car champion BYD have topped $100billion for the first time – overtaking thos... read more