In a resignation letter seen by Reuters, Magnin said he had expected EDF’s strategy to move towards renewables but instead it was pursuing more nuclear power.  “As a board member proposed by the government shareholder, I no longer...

Peter Fankhauser, Thomas Cook’s chief executive, said: “We are operating in a challenging geopolitical environment, with repeated disruption in some of our key source and destination markets.” He added that Brexit had so far had “no noticeable...

Britain’s biggest household energy supplier British Gas has defended its profit levels as “perfectly normal” after making £516m in the first half of 2016, despite losing almost 400,000 customer accounts. Iain Conn, chief executive of parent...

On the agenda today:  Full-year results: Angle, Diageo, Sky Interim results: BT Group, British American Tobacco, Merlin Entertainments, Lloyds Banking Group, Just Eat, Spectris, National Express, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Vesuvius, Schroders...

I am 53 and my partner is 48. We run a high street hair salon in East Sussex, and we have a chance to buy the property, which an agent has valued at £300,000. This seems a good idea, particularly as we would like to retire in ten to 15 years...

However, leaving the EU also pose a risk to Britain’s car industry – which saw the number of vehicles rolling off production lines hit a 16-year high in the first six months of 2016. British factories built 897,157 cars over the period, a 13pc...