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Crisis-hit Poundland has secured an extended deadline for a potential rescue amid political pressure for a solvent sale of the chain.

The UK economy grew 0.7% in the third quarter of the year, according to early official figures confirming a boost from AI investment.

The beleaguered owner of Poundland is among the parties who have been considering offers for Dune, the British footwear retailer, even as its biggest UK high street asset teeters on the brink of collapse.

The private equity giant Warburg Pincus is circling iwoca, the fast-growing small-business lender which funds tens of thousands of British SMEs.

The directors of crisis-hit Poundland have held a board meeting to decide the company's future, Sky News has been told.

The owner of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is plotting a multimillion pound boost to its chief executive's pay package amid warnings by Britain's blue-chip companies that boardroom compensation risks falling further behind US peers.

Millions of pensioners in England and Wales are starting to receive between £100 and £300 as this year's winter fuel payment starts to land.

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AI chatbot maker Anthropic is seeking a stock market valuation of up to $1.4trn (£1trn).

Poundland's owner has released millions of pounds of funding to pay the discount retailer's suppliers - a breakthrough in talks about saving the company and its 10,500 staff.