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 Paramount has completed its 110 billion US dollar (£83 billion) mammoth takeover of Warner Bros Discovery to create a new Hollywood giant called Skydance. TheContinue Reading

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The Co-operative Bank has ranked Bradford as the UK city where charity shops face the greatest challenges in 2026, with a high street vacancy rate of 18 per cent, the highest of the 10 cities in its table. The bank’s analysis, published on 23 September, scored cities on retail rents,Continue Reading

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Andy Haldane, the president of the British Chambers of Commerce and an informal economic adviser to Andy Burnham, has warned that the government is fiscally “skating on pretty thin ice” and cautioned against further tax rises in the Budget on 28 October. In an interview with CNBC, the former BankContinue Reading

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John Healey, the chancellor, told the chief executives of Britain’s biggest banks today that the UK faces a tough fiscal position but that he has yet to decide whether to raise taxes on the industry, according to people with knowledge of the meeting. The talks took place in Downing StreetContinue Reading

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