UK Business

Shares in supermarket group Morrisons have surged by more than 30% after it rebuffed a takeover off worth more than £5.5bn.

Flexible rail tickets will be available in England from today, offering savings on certain routes for those who travel two or three days a week.

Private equity firm Bridgepoint has confirmed a deal to take a stake in fast-food chain Itsu which it says will help create 2,000 UK jobs within the next five years.

McDonald's has announced that it is hiring 20,000 more workers as it opens new restaurants in the UK and Ireland.

Foreign holidays as normal this summer "was never going to be the case", Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has said as he defended the government’s COVID travel policy.

Andrew Tinkler, the former Stobart Group chief, is preparing to mount a public company comeback with a deal to rescue nmcn, the London-listed infrastructure services provider.

A pilot scheme which helped 112 refugees with business start-up training has been extended. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to abandon planning reforms after Conservatives at national and local level blamed them for the party's shock defeat in the Chesham and Amersham by-election.

AstraZeneca and the EU have both claimed victory in a court ruling over the supply of COVID-19 vaccines.

A sharp fall in demand for groceries, as pubs and restaurants reopened to indoor customers, has driven a decline in retail sales volumes.