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Tesco stars but oil price gains keep stocks lower
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The FTSE 100 outperformed European peers on Thursday as higher oil prices continued to weigh on blue chips. In London, the FTSE 100 index endedContinue Reading
Native advertising: Preciso CEO Piero Pavone
Piero Pavone is the founder and CEO of Preciso, the Italian adtech company behind the Smart Bidding programmatic platform and the Ultima native advertising solution. In May 2026 Preciso launched Ultima Ads for Advertisers as an app for Shopify merchants, a month after releasing Ultima for Publishers as a WordPressContinue Reading
Holborn and St Pancras by-election live: Polanski eyes upset in Starmer’s old seat as central London goes to the polls
Labour vs Greens Labour has held the Holborn and St Pancras seat continuously since it was created in 1983, but voters there have moved towards Green and independent candidates in recent years. In May’s local elections, the Greens also saw major success, with Zoe Garbett becoming the UK’s first directly-electedContinue Reading
Low growth and successive shocks erode public finances, Bank boss says
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Readers debate if Novak Djokovic will win a 25th Grand Slam title
Novak Djokovic finally returned to winning ways at the China Open.Continue Reading
Deloitte fined £6m by watchdog over Go-Ahead audits
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Deloitte has been fined more than £6 million by the accounting watchdog over its audits of transport firm Go-Ahead. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) saidContinue Reading
Anne Carson: Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to poet and essayist
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogueContinue Reading
Oil prices surge on worries of shipping attacks and Gulf of Mexico hurricane
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Oil prices have surged and government borrowing costs have risen as supply concerns grow amid escalating fighting in the Middle East and a hurricane impactingContinue Reading
Burnham and Merz set to confirm security pact to counter hybrid Russian threats
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The prime minister has met Germany’s chancellor Friedrich Merz for the first time in Berlin for the launch of a new security partnership. Andy BurnhamContinue Reading
Scientists discover just eating superfoods won’t slow ageing. Here’s what actually helps
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in When it comes to healthy ageing, the overall quality of a person’s diet matters more than eating any one “superfood” or nutrient. From the MediterraneanContinue Reading