All news by author: Graham Hiscott

Unite said in the first nine months of last year, Barclays made profits of £4.6bn, HSBC Holdings more than £8.9bn, Lloyds Banking Group over £3.9bn, and NatWest Group £2.2bn

Consumer group Which? found a medium cappuccino at Costa contains 325mg of caffeine - four times that of a can of energy drink Red Bull, or four cups of tea

US heavyweight Exxon Mobil’s massive haul was not only more than it has ever made before but a historic high for a Western oil company

Five of the world's biggest oil companies are expected to reveal profits equating to £5,000 a second between them while millions continue to struggle with rising energy bills

Andy Haldane has predicted that inflation will cause real wages to fall once again this year, spelling out yet more trouble for Brits during the cost of living crisis

The cost of living crisis appears to have failed to put a dampener on Brits' summer holiday plans after the budget airline reported record sales in January

Amazon staff walked out for the first time today. The row was triggered by last year’s 50p an hour pay rise from the US firm, whose stock market value is almost £800billion

A further increase to 68-year-old was not due to happen until 2046 - however, a review released in 2017 called for this to be brought forward and now the state pension age could be set to rise even further

Jonathan Brearley, chief executive of regulator Ofgem, said a fall in wholesale energy prices over recent months was expected to feed through to millions of households over time

Ofgem has warned energy firms that it will take legal action if they are found to not be taking proper due care of vulnerable households

Campaigners are calling for energy firms in the UK to be banned from forcefully installing prepayment meters that risk the poorest in the country being left without heating

Tory cuts later this year could lead to the closure of swimming pools, fears Rebecca Adlington, who has warned the government that the move would "make a bad situation worse"

The 85 per cent funding cut risks decimating school swimming lessons, threatens people’s fitness and wellbeing, and also puts safety around swimming pools in danger

A package that had been worth £18billion in six months will now be stripped back to just £5.5billion over a year - with many businesses facing a bills shock from April

Bet365's Denise Coates, 55, was paid more than £200m in just one year, one of the biggest salaries ever awarded in the UK after founding the company from a portable cabin in a Stoke car park in 2000

The average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company is on £3.41million a year, according to a think tank. That equates to 103 times more than the £33,000 annual wage of a typical full-time worker

Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan slammed the leaking of any alleged offer, and said it was likely to be rejected anyway. Even a 4% pay rise would fall well short of inflation

Telecoms giant BT has announced a £5million investment in Altitude Angel, whose a scheme called Project Skyway would see a 165-mile drone corridor created above Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry and Rugby