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  TSB turned down an offer of help from Lloyds Banking Group, its former owner, in the early stages of an IT meltdown that left up to 1.9 million online customers unable to access their accounts. Lloyds...

Chris Grayling is expected to make a decision “within days” to end the existing East Coast rail franchise operated by Stagecoach and Virgin Trains. The transport secretary was said to be preparing to either renationalise the...

Construction of luxury flats in central London dropped by a quarter last year, with apartments housed in developments dubbed “posh ghost towers” struggling to sell. New-build starts in the capital in 2017 dropped by 25.4% compared with 2016,...

In a surprise policy reversal, Donald Trump said on Sunday he had instructed his commerce department to help get a Chinese telecommunications company “back into business”, after his government cut off access to its US suppliers. The US...

Tin mining is set for a comeback in Cornwall, as a Canadian company that plans to reopen the South Crofty mine in 2021 announced it would float on the London stock market next month to help fund...

Apple is scrapping plans for an €850m (£743m) data centre in Ireland after three years of planning approval delays, the company has said. Plans for the European data centre were announced in February 2015, to be built in Athenry,...

The US Congress has published 3,500 Facebook ads that were created by Russia’s Internet Research Agency in an effort to divide Americans ahead of the 2016 presidential election and beyond. The ads cover a range of issues, including...

If recently registered medicinal marijuana producers fulfill their plans, fields in Macedonia covering some 140,000 square meters – equivalent to some 20 football pitches – will soon be covered in marijuana plants. Macedonia legalized the growth...

The chairman of 21st Century Fox, Lachlan Murdoch, said the media company planned to press ahead with plans to merge with Disney and take full control of Sky on Wednesday but said the company was considering its...

Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed a $4.9bn (£3.6bn) penalty with the US Department of Justice to end an investigation into sales of financial products in the run-up to the financial crisis, clearing the way for the...