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Retailers are ramping up promotions to try to persuade shoppers to spend more after July's wet weather hit business. more

For 53 per cent of industrial employers, the biggest challenge is attracting skilled workers, according to the 'Industrial Compensation Report'. It added that 28 per cent of industry employers anticipated increasing employment in the second quarter of this year.more

Higher food prices may be here to stay, the Bank of England's chief economist has said.more

The temperature increase in the Baltic Sea catchment area of 0.08 degrees Celsius per decade is higher than the average increase across the Earth estimated at 0.05 degrees Celsius, the report by the Institute of Environmental Protection - National Research Institute indicated.more

UK banking giant Barclays is considering moving its fledging EU headquarters from Dublin to Paris, less than five years after it chose the Irish capital as its European hub as a result of Brexit.more

50.5 entrepreneurs are concerned that inflation will negatively affect their business. However, compared to the previous measurement, this group is 8 p.p. smaller. - stated in the 'EFL Barometer' survey published today.more

More than half of the 1,871 European companies that operated in the Russian Federation prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine have not withdrawn from the market, according to data from the Kiev School of Economics cited by the UK's "Financial Times" today.more

Laborer is among the most sought-after worker profiles, according to Gremi Personal. It added that to fill gaps in the labor market, agencies are recruiting them not only from Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan, but also from Bolivia and Colombia.more

UK homeware retailer Wilko has warned that it is on the brink of collapse, putting some 12,000 jobs at risk. The privately owned company said it had filed a "notice of intention" to appoint administrators after failing to find enough emergency investment.more

The Bank of England (BoE) raised the main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point. percentage, to 5.25 per cent, which means that the cost of credit in the UK is now at its highest in 15 years. The bank has signaled that it will maintain the policy of raising rates until inflation is lowered to the set target of 2%.more

Greenpeace activists climbed onto the roof of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house today and covered it with an "oil-black" kirem from the chimneys to the sill in protest of the decision to grant new licenses for North Sea oil and gas extraction, the organization announced on its channel on platform X (Twitter).more

11.4 percent of Germans could only afford a meal with meat, poultry, fish or a vegetarian equivalent every other day, the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) website reported yesterday, based on Eurostat data for 2022 that the Left Party parliamentary group obtained from the Federal Statistical Office.more

Banks offering unjustifiably low savings rates to their customers will face "robust action", the UK's financial watchdog has said. The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) warning came as part of a plan to ensure banks are passing on interest rate rises to savers.more

Environmental campaigners have called on the government to learn from its own successes after official figures showed the use of single-use supermarket plastic bags had fallen 98% since retailers in England began charging for them in 2015.more

Consultancy firm Cornwall Insight has forecast “relatively small fluctuations” for energy regulator Ofgem’s price cap through to September next year, which it expects will fall to £1,860 for a typical dual fuel household in October 2023.more

Workers who lose their jobs will receive weekly payments of up to €450 linked to previous earnings, from next year, Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys has promised.more

Britain has lost 6,000 storefronts in five years, new figures show, with financial pressures forcing shop owners to close their stores and leave cities with undesirable “gap-toothed high streets”.more

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday updated its forecasts for global growth and assessed that it remains weak and accompanied by many risks. The IMF also revised its assumptions for the German economy and reported that the country's GDP will contract by 0.3 percent this year.more

Mobile operator Virgin Media O2 is to slash up to 2,000 UK jobs, or 12% of its total workforce, by the end of this year. The figure includes 800 role reductions that were already announced, the BBC understands.more

Big pay increases for highly paid workers in London and the south-east have masked real wage cuts across large swathes of the economy and led to a widening in the UK’s geographical earnings gap, a leading thinktank has said.more

The scale of exports of products manufactured in the UK to EU countries is growing, according to the latest statistics published by the Make UK group. As it was emphasized, the phenomenon takes place despite numerous warnings that Brexit will lead to the freezing of trade relations with the Communitymore

British Transport Secretary Mark Harper recently gave the go-ahead for the controversial A303 road reconstruction project, which involves the construction of a tunnel in close proximity to the famous stone structure Stonehenge. Now, in response to this decision, UNESCO has threatened to strip the monument of its World Heritage Site status.more

The British government announced on Thursday that it will reduce the percentage of funds given to the royal family from The Crown Estate next year, in line with the wishes of King Charles III, who wanted the extra profits from wind farms to be used for the public good.more

One in six London fire engines have been out of use every day in July because of staff shortages, data revealed on Wednesday. The capital’s only fireboat, which is essential for river rescues, has also been unavailable for 13 shifts this month, according to figures obtained by the Fire Brigades Union. more

Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata has confirmed plans to build its flagship electric car battery factory in the UK. more