The internationally-oriented FTSE 100 was up 0.1% as of 0929 GMT, after logging its fourth straight week of gains on Friday, while the domestically-oriented midcap FTSE 250 index rose 0.3% ...

The UK will abolish the water regulator Ofwat and set up a new watchdog with stronger powers to oversee the industry while enforcing environmental and drinking-water standards, following an ...

Lloyds will start the FTSE 100 banks' reporting season on Thursday, but analysts have warned it could be a slow start.

The average price tag on a home coming to market in the UK fell to £373,709 this month - marking a £4,531 or 1.2 per cent ...

Major recommendations also include the ability to block company takeovers and taking a more interventionist approach to regulation. But nationalisation was excluded.

The rental market has cooled more quickly than expected, leading to a downgrading of the expectations for growth this year, ...

A look at the final proposals from the Independent Water Commission, led by former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Jon ...

Yet for all the talk of revolution, some will be disappointed by Labour’s reformism. Though England is one of only two ...

The system for regulating water companies in England and Wales should be overhauled and replaced with one single body in ...

It comes after a major report recommended the UK's water sector be overhauled after anger at river pollution, soaring bills, ...

A tough new super regulator for England’s much criticised water industry should replace the current “alphabet soup” of ...

The average price tag on a home coming to market fell by more than £4,500 this month, the biggest July price drop recorded in ...