Author: Nathan Bissitt

Talk about making a killing from the housing market. Alex Chesterman, the founder of Zoopla, will walk away with £61m following a £2.2bn takeover of the property website’s parent company, ZPG, by the US private equity firm Silver Lake. It has been a lucrative

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Big Six energy supplier npower is to increase standard variable energy tariffs by 5.3% in a price hike affecting around a million customers. Source: Sky

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Staff at conciliation service Acas – which works to resolve industrial disputes – are staging a 24-hour strike over issues including “unmanageable” workloads. Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union are walking out from

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Just three days after pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal the US has begun to make good on Donald Trump’s promise to increase sanctions against Tehran. Along with the United Arab Emirates, the US treasury has moved against six individuals and three companies it

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Potholes are forcing drivers and insurers to shell out at least £1m a month on repair bills, the AA has found. The number of pothole-related claims has soared this year, with more during the first four months of 2018 than the whole of 2017. Across the UK there will

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There will be several reactions to news that BT is cutting some 13,000 jobs on a gross basis and 7,000 on a net basis. The unions and the Labour Party will, naturally, say – as, indeed, the Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey did – that this is

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The online estate agents eMoov and Tepilo are in talks about a ‎merger that would pave the way for the creation of a publicly quoted rival to Purplebricks, the industry leader. Sky News has learnt that the two companies are at an advanced stage of negotiations about a

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After all, Mark Carney has gone and done it all over again. Having gained the nickname for his attempts to hint about where interest rates are heading and then later changing his mind, he did precisely that in the run-up to today’s decision. In February he

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The Bank of England has left interest rates on hold at 0.5% and slashed its forecast for economic growth this year, but warned that borrowing costs may still have to rise in the coming months.  Until a few weeks ago the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee had been

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One of Britain’s best-known restaurant groups is poised to be added to an accelerating deluge of high street closures as Gaucho examines plans which could put more than 700 jobs at risk. Sky News has learnt that the Argentine steak chain has drafted in one of

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