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Thames Water is seeking High Court approval today for a £3bn emergency loan to keep the troubled utility afloat, in a crucial 48-hours for the company and the industry.

The Royal Mail group is on its way to passing into foreign ownership, but the state will keep a "golden share" in the company.

The boss of NatWest Group’s high street branch network is to step down early next year as the company prepares for a return to full private sector ownership.

Every week in our Money blog, we answer questions about your financial problems or consumer disputes. This week, a reader asked what they have to do if they are overpaid.

"The evil the Post Office did was profound", a lawyer has told the Horizon IT scandal inquiry while describing a "deliberate conspiracy" and "cover up".

The sale of Royal Mail to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has been approved by the government.

This is a crucial week for the water industry.

UK-based partners at Grant Thornton, the accountancy firm, have voted to back the sale of a majority stake to Cinven, the private equity firm.

NatWest Group is to hand its chief executive a potential multimillion pound pay boost as it returns to full private ownership after nearly 17 years in state hands.

The prime minister and chancellor were in lockstep as they reacted to Friday morning's GDP figures.

The private equity firm circling Boots the Chemist's parent company is lining up financing from a syndicate of banks for a prospective $10bn-plus takeover deal.

Tube and rail fares in London will go up by 4.6% from next March, the capital's mayor has said.

A certified B Corporation company which repurposes electronic equipment to benefit schools and charities has landed more than £3m in funding from a leading start-up investment group.

Another leading technology company is being swallowed up in a transatlantic takeover that will underline the scale of the raid on some of Britain's most promising businesses.

A British hedge funder trader has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Denmark over a £1bn tax fraud.

Royal Mail has been fined £10.5m for missing postal delivery targets.

The economy remained in reverse gear during October, according to official figures covering the month ahead of the government's first budget.

It might be tempting, given how much coverage has focused on it recently, to assume the forthcoming changes to the inheritance tax regime are the single biggest issue facing farmers these days.

Plans to "green" the UK's power system will protect consumers from future energy crises and has the potential to "bring down bills for good", the government has said.

The Daily Telegraph's publisher is to hand hundreds of staff a £500 bonus this month as uncertainty over its ownership looks set to stretch into a third calendar year.