Business

Shoppers have stayed away from the high street on what is usually a peak trading weekend before Christmas.

Interserve, the struggling outsourcing group, is drawing up plans to hand its £250m building materials unit to its lenders as part of an ambitious plan to secure the company's future.

Former BHS owner Dominic Chappell has been ordered to pay more than £124,000 for breaking pensions law when the retailer collapsed.

Waitrose is to ban glitter from all its own products by Christmas 2020 in response to mounting concerns about plastic pollution.

The price comparison site Moneysupermarket Group has become the latest big British company to begin searching for fresh leadership as new rules loom that will curtail chairs' status as independent directors.

Facebook has discovered a bug that gave third-party apps access to the photos of up to seven million users.

The Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley and The Entertainer, a privately owned toy chain, are among a pack of suitors scenting a Christmas bargain by lodging their interest in a takeover of Hamleys.

Cuadrilla has paused fracking at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire after what it describes as a "series of micro-seismic events".

Millions of Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.29) every three years for visa-free travel to the EU from 2021.

The Bank of England plans to clamp down on "staggeringly high" expenses after two officials spent almost £400,000 on travel.