UK Business

The US ambassador to the UK has said Britain should carry out "more drilling and more production" in the North Sea.

The private equity firm which owns the Las Iguanas and Cafe Rouge restaurant chains is in talks to buy a sizeable chunk of Next 15 Group, the London-listed marketing services group.

Ryanair's boss has accused the chancellor of having no idea how to grow the UK economy as the airline reported that hikes to fares had delivered a 42% rise in half-year profits.

Each week, the Money blog speaks to someone from a different profession to discover what it's really like. This week we chat to pest controller from Bespoke Pest Control, Stephen Wales.

"Who the f*** am I?" asks Roni Jones, from Cornwall, four years after the Easter weekend that ended her career.

A deal-hungry London-listed marketing group backed by Rupert Murdoch and Lord Ashcroft, the former Tory treasurer, has made a £50m approach to buy a division of M&C Saatchi.

A group of senior City figures is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of pounds for a new listed vehicle that would be used to target a major corporate takeover.

A "significant" step has been taken in establishing a national restorative justice programme for victims of the Post Office's Horizon IT scandal.

The manager of the bulk of TGI Fridays' restaurants around the world has swooped to buy its British operations in a deal which preserves all 2,000 jobs at the chain.

Tech giants Apple and Amazon have defied industry predictions with better-than-expected financial results.