12:04am

Osborne urged to curb business rates

Small companies seek rate cap and wider competition in banking sector

12:02am

Company failures hit six-year low

Proportion of those collapsing at lowest level since June 2007

12:01am

Employees to lose pay query rights

Protest over bill as women complain of continuing bias

12:00am

CBI points to gain from extra flights

Business group calls for new UK runway in south

11:59pm

Flexible working takes firmer hold

Companies say practice becoming norm but many workers disagree

HM Treasury building, London, UK ©Alamy 8:38pm

Treasury kills off environment study

Move thwarted despite industry and green concerns

Extremely Large Telescope 7:09pm

UK to invest in world’s biggest telescope

European Extremely Large Telescope to be built in Chile

From GLOBAL ECONOMY 2:00pm

Lending drops despite BoE scheme

Credit fell £2.4bn in final three months of 2012

From LIFE & ARTS 12:06am

Sports groups lack women in boardrooms

Female representation has not risen despite funding cut threat

From UK POLITICS & POLICY 12:03am

NHS spending on outsourced care increases

Annual rise of 10% hides wide variation between services

From GLOBAL ECONOMY 11:59pm

Jobs growth continues amid pay squeeze

City of London misses out as employment boom continues elsewhere

From UK POLITICS & POLICY 9:03pm

East Coast railway set to stay state-run

Government has asked managers to draw up five-year plan

From COMPANIES 8:44pm

Serco shows its mettle in contract wins

All human life is in ‘biggest company you have never heard of’

From COMPANIES 8:30pm

Females add diversity to boards

Study dispels talent pool concerns

From COMPANIES 7:40pm

Housebuilding incentive branded a flop

£3.3bn scheme to reward councils is not working, says former minister

From UK POLITICS & POLICY Mar 3, 2013

SFO whistle-blower casts doubt on convictions

Allegations at handling of evidence by agency’s digital forensic unit

Mar 1, 2013

Film rights tax shelter shut down

Hedge fund manager will have to repay £75m

From UK POLITICS & POLICY Mar 1, 2013

Call for more primary school places

UK needs more than 100,000 places to cope with high birth rate and immigration

From UK POLITICS & POLICY Mar 1, 2013

Tory right wing puts Cameron on probation

Tories in third place with 25% of the vote in Eastleigh by-election

From LIFE & ARTS Mar 1, 2013

Skegness braced for beach sports arena

East Lincolnshire town seen as possible venue for national beach sports arena

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