Millions who pay for bank accounts that offer enticing extras such as travel insurance and TV subscriptions could find themselves out of pocket now that fess are rising. These packaged accounts charge monthly fees of between £10 and £40 in return for perks that, if used wisely, could save you hundreds of pounds a year….

To many people, it is the place where you buy a book or magazine or to pick up some stationery. However, after 232 years in business, WH Smith has decided to open its first café. The first Smith’s Kitchen officially opened on Thursday in Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton. The 26-seat, 495 sq ft café, featuring…

UK stocks rose in London on Friday morning following confirmation of Labour’s landslide election victory overnight. The FTSE 100 — the Premier League of the London stock market — rose a further 31.57 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 8,272.83, having risen by almost 1 per cent on Thursday. Housebuilders were the biggest winners, as…

Steve Baker, 53, has run and owned several of the country’s fastest-growing businesses, as ranked in The Sunday Times. MLS Group, a UK-wide serviced office company, featured in 2005, followed by Ventia, a London-based firm in the same sector, in 2015. Most recently, Eden Sustainable, a solar power installer, has been a constituent of the…

Leaving school at 16 was once a standard route for those wanting a steady career. In the 1980s, almost a third of students began work straight after school, starting trade apprenticeships or entry-level jobs in retail or manufacturing. In 1999 Tony Blair set his target for half of all children in the UK to attend…

Robert Higginson, 67, is the co-founder of Par Equity, a venture capital investor in tech companies that was established in Edinburgh in 2007. He is responsible for their investment decisions in northern England and the US, and his focus is on digital health technology. Par Equity has just published a report showing that in the…