Category: Business

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed an online child safety bill that requires Apple and Google to ensure that their app stores verify the age…

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Lucy Hooker Business reporter Photo by ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Compensation for sub-postmasters is not being decided by a “kangaroo court”, the body overseeing the payouts has…

View More Post Office payouts ‘not by kangaroo court’, says oversight body

Dearbail Jordan Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images KFC has announced plans to create 7,000 new jobs across the UK and Ireland as rival fast…

View More KFC to create 7,000 jobs in UK and Irish growth plan

The government is promising more training for under-21s in England, as it presses ahead with controversial plans to scrap funding for postgraduate apprenticeships. Only students…

View More Apprenticeship shakeup to shift focus to under-21s

Sweden-based car maker Volvo Cars says it will cut around 3,000 jobs as part of its cost-cutting measures. The firm says the layoffs will mainly…

View More Chinese-owned Volvo Cars to cut 3,000 white collar jobs

US President Donald Trump has agreed to extend a deadline to negotiate tariffs with the European Union by more than a month. Last month, he…

View More Trump agrees to extend EU trade talks after 50% tariff threat

James Pearson BBC Political Reporter, Hereford & Worcester BBC Peter Holden said he had been repeatedly chased for debt by Octopus for an unconnected gas…

View More Energy firm Octopus sorry for chasing Hartlebury man over 6k wrong bill

Helen Drew & Jess Warren BBC News BBC Tower Hamlets Council estimates the grant will help about 7,000 students About 7,000 families in east London…

View More Universal school uniform grant to help thousands in Tower Hamlets

Damian Grammaticas Political correspondent Francesca Gillett BBC News EPA The company building the HS2 rail line between London and Birmingham says it is investigating “allegations”…

View More HS2 investigating two firms supplying staff for West Midlands leg

Faustina Kamara and Keith Rose Faustina (left) wishes driving lessons were cheaper, while Keith says the driving test backlog means his son Brandon (right) needs…

View More Learners struggle to pay before test, but instructors say pricing fair

Sir Alan Bates has accused the government of putting forward a “take it or leave it” offer of compensation amounting to less than half of…

View More Post Office offer amounts to just half of my claim, says Alan Bates

A British fishing vessel has been impounded by the French authorities, accused of illegally fishing in their waters. It was seized in the English Channel…

View More France impounds UK vessel accused of illegal fishing

South Western Railway (SWR) has been renationalised, making it the first train company to transfer to public ownership under Labour. The first nationalised service will…

View More South Western Railway first rail firm renationalised by Labour

Kate McGough Education producer BBC / Kate McGough Libby, 20, says she is trying to find a job but cannot get one “I’ve applied for…

View More One in eight young people not in work or education