AZN•AZN•UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will allow mayors to hand workers and local firms “tax rebates,” or mini-grants that they can receive by applying to Conservative mayors in their respective patches.
British private medical imaging company Scan.com has raised $220 million from investors including Aviva, aiming at a potential stock market float.
At least eight people have died and 18 people are missing after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus.
Train drivers secured a significant pay hike after floating strikes on busy routes across the UK, with the deal between Avanti West Coast and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen union being approved by UK PM Burnham.
Priti Patel is to be replaced as shadow foreign secretary by Tom Tugendhat in a shadow cabinet reshuffle, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch set to launch an overhaul of her top team as soon as this week.
British motoring organisation AA has held talks about a potential sale to Germany-based financial services company Allianz for £5 billion ($6.77 billion).
Norwegian steel group Blastr Green Steel is in talks with Aptior Capital, a “special situations” credit fund, about helping to finance its bid to take over SSUK, Britain’s third-biggest producer of the metal.
Andy Burnham said people convicted of unlawful killing, including manslaughter, would now be excluded from the planned early-release scheme meant to ease chronic overcrowding in prisons.
British pharma AstraZeneca pulled the plug on its Volrustomig treatment, a late-stage lung cancer drug trial, revealing it was unlikely to increase survival rates for lung cancer patients compared with current standard options.
