For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The FTSE 100 closed higher on Wednesday as gains in property stocks and housebuilders offsetContinue Reading

Far from luring shoppers away from the high street, social media is sending them through the door in their millions. New research from American Express estimates that content scrolled on phones is now behind some 1.7 billion visits to UK high streets every year, an average of more than 30Continue Reading

Thousands of shoppers and football fans were forced back to notes and coins on Tuesday night after a power outage at Worldpay, one of the world’s largest payment processors, knocked out card transactions at pubs, supermarkets and restaurants across the country. The disruption could hardly have come at a worseContinue Reading