FT and Penguin publisher Pearson PLC said earnings-per-share would be lower than previously thought after weak fourth quarter.

Gerard Lyons will join the mayor's economic policy team after a thirteen year career with global investment bank Standard Chartered

Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills speaks about improving life chances at the Cass Business School.

Vince Cable has said that the Government should not focus its efforts completely on improving access for younger people into higher education, saying that addressing the issue of adults without qualifications is needed in order to improve social mobi

Business Secretary Vince Cable and Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander outlined coalition government and Lib Dem economic and business policy

The full text of prime minister's speech in Manchester

London Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson claimed this morning that Tech City and innovation in general is a “massive opportunity to create jobs” for the capital.

Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City are interested in signing Crewe Alexandra starlet Nick Powell in the summer transfer window.

Labour's Ed Miliband accuses prime minister of smugness and complacency after figures reveal British economy shrank at end of last year.

Global fast food chain McDonald's will create 2,500 jobs for Britain in 2012, the company announced.

The fast-food chain McDonald's will hire 2,500 people in the UK increasing its workforce to 90,000 this year.

The opposition has dubbed the three-year scheme as a wrong strategy.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has suggested that the fact that youth unemployment figures have touched one million is evidence that the government's apprenticeship schemes are not helping enough young people.

The UK jobs front continues to be grim, even as a Trades Union Congress (TUC) report, published on Tuesday, has shown that unemployment figures rose 97 percent in local council areas over the past year.

First surfacing on Friday 23 September 2011 and therefore most likely submerged in the Eurozone crisis and its repercussions, BAE Systems is expected to announce some 3,000 redundancies in the very near future, thereby reducing its military aircraft division to some 11,000 staff. The axe is expected to fall particularly severely at the company's Warton and Brough bases.

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Prince Andrew is expected to stand down as Britain's trade envoy, four months after his links to a sex offender prompted calls for him to resign

Read here the full text of Chancellor George Osborne's Budget speech to the House of Commons.

On Monday 24 May, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne announced "wasteful spending" cuts of £6.2 billion of which £5.7 billion will go to reducing the UK's current deficit of £156 billion. Around £500 million, apparently a concession to the Lib Dems, is to be reinvested in further education, apprenticeships and social housing.

The Confederation of British Industry has called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill for the next two year and has said that public services need to be "re-engineered" in order to get the deficit down.