UK TRADE AND BUISNESS

Google is being sued over its use of confidential medical records belonging to 1.6 million individuals in the UK. Sky News reported The company’s artificial intelligence arm, DeepMind, received the data in 2015 from the Royal Free NHS Trust in London for the purpose of testing a smartphone app called Streams. The claim is being […]

UK banks are tightening their belts when lending to homebuyers, as they begin to incorporate the cost of living crisis into their mortgage models. Potential buyers might struggle to get the size of loan they need, according to mortgage brokers, with surging household costs and sky high energy bills forcing lenders to reassess what mortgages people […]

Heathrow airport has said its passenger numbers fell to their lowest level for 50 years in 2021, as the pandemic restricted air travel. By BBC Business The UK’s biggest airport does not expect passenger numbers to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2025 or 2026, boss John Holland Kaye said. The airport had a weak start […]

The U.K. economy expanded at the fastest pace since World War II last year after suffering a milder hit than expected in December. From Bloomberg News  The 7.5% expansion was the largest since 1941 and made Britain the fastest-growing advanced economy in 2021. The economy nonetheless remained smaller in the fourth quarter than at the […]

Aviva Investors says voting at AGMs will be influenced by policies on climate, human rights, biodiversity and executive pay. From the Guardian news Aviva Investors, an important UK asset manager, has put the directors of 1,500 companies on notice that it is willing to seek their removal if they fail to show enough urgency in […]