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Image copyright Gousto Image caption Gousto offers 40 weekly recipes to customers and delivers meals direct to people’s doors Recipe box business Gousto has announced plans to create 700 jobs, more than doubling its workforce. The firm, which delivers meal kits directly to customers, is set to hire about 400 staff at its distribution centre […]

Image copyright Getty Images The National Living Wage will rise to £10.50 an hour by 2025, the government has said. So, how high could the lowest wages actually go? What happens to the minimum wage already affects lots of low paid people – from bar staff to waiters and nursery nurses to sales assistants. But

Image copyright Greggs High Street bakery chain Greggs is stockpiling pork so that production of its sausage rolls is guaranteed in the event of a no-deal Brexit. “We are preparing for the potential impact of the UK’s departure from the European Union by building stocks of key ingredients,” the firm said. Around 20% of a

Image copyright Getty Images A third of senior management jobs will be axed at the John Lewis Partnership as the company streamlines its structure from February next year. The partnership is merging the managements of its High Street department stores and Waitrose grocery chain into a single team. John Lewis has been struggling in a

Image copyright Pacemaker Belfast’s Harland and Wolff shipyard has been sold, saving it from closure. The yard, best known for building the Titanic, has been bought for a total of £6m by InfraStrata, a London-based energy firm. Harland and Wolff went into administration in August following the collapse of its Norwegian parent company. That move

Image copyright AFP UK house price growth “almost ground to a halt” in September, with property prices 0.2% higher than a year ago, the Nationwide has said. The building society also said that prices fell by 0.2% compared with August, according to figures based on its own mortgage data. It said activity in the housing

Image copyright Reuters The UK accountancy watchdog has launched an investigation into the collapse of travel firm Thomas Cook. The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) probe will look at the audit of the company by accountancy giant EY for the year ending 30 September 2018. The FRC’s enforcement division will carry out the investigation and has

Image copyright Reuters Credit Suisse’s chief operating officer has resigned after a probe found he initiated surveillance of an executive who had abruptly left the firm. Private detectives were hired to track the Swiss bank’s former head of wealth management, Iqbal Khan for two weeks in September. Pierre-Olivier Bouee said that he alone had initiated

Image copyright Robert Meares Image caption Kara Goldin created the $100m business in her kitchen The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Kara Goldin, founder of US flavoured water company Hint. Kara Goldin says she unwittingly developed an addiction that impacted on her

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Stephen Barclay and Michel Barnier met for Brexit talks in Brussels on Friday The government has prepared the legal text of an updated Brexit deal, government sources have told the BBC. It is expected to make more of the plans public in the next few days, a senior government figure