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    • 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
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      UK train drivers’ union secures new 6-month strike mandate

      Vote by Aslef members risks prolonging disruption to rail services across England

      A group of rail workers stand on a picket line outside Euston rail station
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Ryanair Holdings PLC
      Ryanair dismisses chief pilot over ‘unacceptable behaviour’

      Email to staff says airline had uncovered pattern of harassment of junior female pilots

      A Boeing 737 operated by Ryanair on the tarmac in Riga, Latvia
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      Union opens door to axing Heathrow summer strikes after higher pay offer

      Airport welcomes Unite’s ‘gesture of goodwill’ to cancel walkouts on June 24 and 25

      Travellers queue to go through security at Heathrow airport
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      FirstGroup PLC
      FirstGroup shares rally on buoyant bus and rail boost results

      Bus and train operator’s adjusted profits more than double despite a key government rail contract loss

      A commuter passes a First Great Western train, operated by FirstGroup
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Wizz Air Holdings Plc
      Wizz Air expects return to profit after putting fuel hedging fiasco behind it

      European low-cost carrier buoyed by travel rebound after decision not to hedge fuel costs contributed to loss

      WIzz Air planes in Berlin
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