One of Britain's biggest casual dining operators is to begin testing buyers' appetite for a deal next year in a move that could see chains such as Ask and Coco di Mama changing hands.

At some point, the naysayers who love to criticise Mike Ashley's Frasers Group for its governance are going to have to admit that, just maybe, the set-up is actually working.

Councillors have voted in favour of controversial plans to build a golf course within an area of protected sand dunes in the Scottish Highlands.

The investment management firm co-founded by Tory MP and former business secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg is to be wound down.

McDonald's is testing a coffee shop-style restaurant that puts it in competition with the likes of Starbucks.

Cash usage has grown for the first time in a decade as households look to balance their budgets amid the cost-of-living squeeze.

New family visa rules could leave British citizens with a foreign partner facing greater restrictions on who they can live with than migrant workers, according to leading immigration researchers.

"The last thing I do before going to sleep at night is check the trains to see whether they're running on time and then the first thing I do in the morning, before I reach for a cup of tea, is pick my phone up and check again. And then you can still get to the station and find it's cancelled or delayed."

The Bank of England has said that UK households and businesses have been "resilient" in the face of rising interest rates – but repeated previous warnings that the full effect of higher interest rates was yet to come through.

The European Union has bowed to pressure from European carmakers and the British government for a delay to the introduction of 10% export tariffs on electric vehicles (EVs), sparing buyers from paying thousands of pounds more for a new car.