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Amy is a newly qualified journalist specialising in business journalism at Business Matters with responsibility for news content for what is now the UK’s largest print and online source of current business news.

UK consumer confidence saw a marginal improvement in March, rising by just one point to -19, according to the latest GfK index.

Britain braces for £35bn energy shock as Iran conflict pushes inflation back above 4%

29 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Do you have employees who call in sick often or never show up on time for their shifts? You’re not the only one.

Blair think tank urges ’emergency handbrake’ on sickness benefits as bill races towards £78bn

28 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The UK has announced sweeping new sanctions aimed at crippling Russia’s energy revenues, targeting the country’s largest oil producers, state-linked tankers, and overseas partners helping to keep Russian crude flowing to global markets.

UAE’s shock Opec exit signals a new era of energy market volatility for British business

28 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Lloyds tops the league of shame as Britain’s finance firms pay out £236m to aggrieved customers

28 April 202628 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Battery Ventures has raised $3.25bn in fresh capital to invest in technology companies worldwide, as it doubles down on artificial intelligence and enterprise software opportunities.

Beware the tax-break brigade: founders warned over EIS and SEIS investors who ‘don’t care about the outcome’

28 April 2026 Get Funded, In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

A British artificial intelligence company founded by one of the architects of fintech unicorn Tide has written to every Member of Parliament warning that the political debate over children's smartphone use has descended into a "false choice" between blanket bans and unrestricted access.

SafetyMode warns MPs of ‘false choice’ on child smartphone safety as global pressure mounts

28 April 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Harpin-backed Flooring Superstore weighs restructure as sales slip

27 April 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Ministers are turning up the heat on Britain's biggest companies to fortify their cyber-defences, warning that a new generation of artificial intelligence tools, including Anthropic's controversial Mythos model, risks unleashing a fresh wave of sophisticated hacking against UK plc.

Ministers urge British boardrooms to sign cyber-resilience pledge as AI threat escalates

27 April 202627 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Merck, the American pharmaceuticals group known as MSD in Europe, has dealt a significant blow to the government’s ambitions to build a world-leading life sciences economy by scrapping its £1 billion plan for a new London headquarters.

HMRC backs down on free-drugs VAT raid as pharma giants threaten UK exodus

27 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Spring Statement to the House of Commons under the shadow of escalating conflict in the Middle East and mounting fears of a renewed inflation shock driven by surging energy prices.

UK borrowing slips to four-year low but Middle East tensions threaten Reeves’s fiscal plan

23 April 202623 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Tesla’s grip on the European electric vehicle market weakened dramatically last month, with new figures showing a 49 per cent drop in sales across 32 European countries compared with April 2024 — a sharp contrast to the overall EV sector, which posted a 28 per cent year-on-year rise.

Tesla accelerates European comeback as EV sales surge past one-in-five milestone

23 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

OpenAI has launched a powerful new AI assistant feature for ChatGPT that allows users to delegate everyday tasks like browsing the web, making restaurant reservations, and shopping online—marking a major leap in AI’s ability to act, not just analyse.

Simply Business becomes first UK broker to put small business cover inside ChatGPT

23 April 202624 April 2026 In Business, Technology Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Josie Zayner, a prominent figure in the biohacking community, often captures the public imagination with experiments that test the limits of self-directed genetic engineering.

British Business Bank anchors Northern Gritstone’s £20m rolling close as northern deeptech push gathers pace

23 April 202623 April 2026 Get Funded, News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Royal Mail has put a £500 million price tag on rescuing its battered reputation for on-time delivery, unveiling a five-year recovery plan that will see Saturday second-class post wound down from May and thousands of part-time posties asked to take on full-time hours.

Royal Mail commits £500m to fix delivery failures as Kretinsky era takes shape

22 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

With the number of young Britons not in education, employment or training (NEET) closing in on the one million mark, McDonald's UK has stepped into the breach with what it claims is the largest in-person work experience programme the country has ever seen.

McDonald’s bets on Britain’s youth with UK’s biggest paid work experience scheme

22 April 202622 April 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Britain’s biggest business organisations have closed ranks against a wave of antisemitism sweeping the country, with 40 trade bodies and employer groups signing a joint letter pledging to root out anti-Jewish prejudice from the nation’s workplaces.

UK business chiefs unite to combat workplace antisemitism as Met chief warns jews ‘not safe’ in London

Forty UK business organisations led by the BCC and CBI sign a joint letter pledging zero tolerance of workplace antisemitism, as Met chief Sir Mark Rowley warns MPs that Jews are ‘not currently safe’ in London.

JCB chairman Lord Bamford warns ministers face public revolt over £333bn welfare bill

Treasury orders review into bank branch closures as small firms count the cost

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