Entries by BBC News

Octopus boss: We’ve seen a 50% rise in solar panel sales since start of Iran war

The UK giant is optimistic but chief executive Greg Jackson tells the BBC he is making contingency plans.

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Octopus boss: We’ve seen a 50% rise in solar panel sales since start of Iran war

The UK giant is optimistic but chief executive Greg Jackson tells the BBC he is making contingency plans.

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Octopus boss: We’ve seen a 50% rise in solar panel sales since start of Iran war

The UK giant is optimistic but chief executive Greg Jackson tells the BBC he is making contingency plans.

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NHS, bills and immigration: One constituency’s election talking points

Six weeks from the Holyrood election, the BBC takes the temperature in one central Scotland constituency.

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Oil prices volatile as Trump talks up Iran negotiations

Crude rose back above $100 a barrel as the US and Iran clashed over bringing the conflict to an end.

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Campaigners welcome Meta and YouTube’s defeat in landmark social media addiction trial

A woman has been awarded $6m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.

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Families offered support with Easter food costs

Low-income families are being offered help with the cost of food during the Easter holidays.

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UK inflation rate stays at 3% before Iran war hits oil prices

The speed of price rises in the UK has stayed the same, according to data which was collected before the US-Israel war with Iran began.

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Estate of late tycoon Mike Lynch to pay damages of £920m

Judge rules that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise was owed damages for the £8.2bn acquisition of Autonomy in 2011.

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We need more plumbers and fewer lawyers in AI age, says BlackRock boss

Larry Fink also warns if oil prices stay high for a sustained period it will have "profound implications" for the world economy.

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