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Image copyright Getty Images Construction firm Bovis offered to pay £950m to buy rival Galliford Try’s home building business but was rejected, it has emerged. Galliford said the offer was too cheap and that it remained confident in its long-term prospects after rejecting the bid. Bovis said the two companies were no longer in discussions. […]

Image copyright Getty Images New protection for individuals tricked into transferring money to fraudsters has now taken effect – but not all banks are signed up to the scheme. Some 84,000 bank customers lost money – sometimes tens of thousands of pounds – last year after being caught out. Only a fraction of the amounts

Image copyright Getty Images Motor theft insurance claim payouts hit their highest level in seven years at the start of the year, according to the insurance industry trade body. The Association of British Insurers said claims for January to March were higher than for any quarter since 2012. It said a rise in keyless car

Image copyright PA Image caption Facebook has more than two billion active users worldwide Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic of Ireland since the European Union’s new data protection regulation came into force a year ago. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission

Image copyright PA “If Jamie can replicate this early Oxford form,” wrote the Guardian’s restaurant critic Matthew Norman in 2008, “he will soon be driving a prize herd of recession-proof cash cows across the land.” Norman was reviewing the first branch of what would become a country-wide franchise, designed, in Jamie Oliver’s own words, “with

Image copyright AFP The government has decided not to provide extra money to British Steel, which is to enter insolvency. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had called on Theresa May to take a public stake in the company, having previously said that Brexit could be an opportunity to pump more cash into British industry. He said

Image copyright P&G Image caption Could make-up printers be the shape of things to come? Beauty brands are using everything from artificial intelligence (AI) to augmented reality (AR) to keep their customers engaged in a fiercely competitive market. But do such innovations actually work or are they simply marketing hype? When L’Oreal said last year

“There’s nothing to stop me working,” says Raymond Irving, a forklift truck driver at a recycling plant. At 69, he is the oldest person at his firm, but he has no plans to stop despite already drawing his pension. Mr Irving is part of a growing trend, a sharp rise in the numbers of older

Image copyright Reuters Fiat Chrysler has made a “transformative” merger proposal for French carmaker Renault, the Italian firm said on Monday. The combined business would be 50% owned by Fiat shareholders and 50% by Renault stockholders. The carmaker said the merger would create a global automotive leader, with 8.7 million vehicle sales. Carmakers have faced

By Daniel Gallas & Daniele Palumbo South America Business Correspondent, Data Journalist Image copyright AFP Image caption Jair Bolsonaro boasted during the election that he did not understand anything about economics On 1 January, when Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro took office, many in the country were concerned that the divisive politician would not be