SSE to invest £33bn in upgrading Scotland’s electricity grid
The company plans to spend two-thirds of that to upgrade wiring and increase high-voltage grid capacity to get power from the north to customers in...
Only learner drivers to be allowed to book tests
The Transport Secretary has announced new measures to tackle the continuing backlog of driving tests....
Ryanair scraps printed boarding passes to go fully digital
The airline is only accepting digital boarding passes from Wednesday....
NHS gets go-ahead to make thousands of redundancies
The compromise deal would allow the NHS to overspend this year....
India’s start-ups fire up public markets amid valuation concerns
Start-up fundraising has raised uncomfortable questions about valuations, but signals a maturing ecosystem....
The Kenyan start-up aiming to electrify African transport
From fleets of e-bikes to individual riders, eWaka aims to sell across Africa’s delivery market....
Building society pledges to keep branches open
It says its current network of 696 branches will remain until at least 2030....
UK toy sales rise as ‘kidults’ turn to Lego and Pokémon
Sales have risen by 6% so far this year, analysts say, after a string of post-pandemic falls....
Starbucks’ baristas are striking again – will that hold back the chain’s recovery?
The coffee giant is returning to its roots to boost sales but labour tensions could derail the strategy....
Government to rethink rejection of Waspi compensation
Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden says that the rethink does not mean that payouts will necessarily follow....