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The more than 200-year-old company, which is based in Basingstoke, will be taken off the London Stock Exchange and acquired by Atlas.

The Office for National Statistics said average weekly pay grew by 5.9% for the three months to February.

Overflowing bins in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham, amid an ongoing refuse workers’ strike in the city. Nearly 400 council bin workers in Birmingham began indefinite strike action as part…

In a speech to the union’s annual conference on Monday, Sarah Kilpatrick, national president of the NEU, said: “When violence against women and girls is on the rise, and misogyny…

The Deputy Prime Minister insisted that the North Lincolnshire site was ‘crucial’ to the industry in the UK.

Hundreds of workers have been on all-out strike for a month, leading to rubbish piling up on the streets.

The two appointments were signed off by the Business Secretary.

Officials from the Department for Business and Trade are already on site in Scunthorpe after the Government took over the running of British Steel.

The strike began on March 11 as part of a dispute over pay.