An analysis by CIPFA has found councils face a six per cent cut in spending power next year.

In the run up to the 2015 election almost £10 million will be given to local authorities and to national activity to boost the number of people registering to vote around the country.

According to government figures sole traders are driving business growth in the UK.

EE, O2, Vodafone and Three will plunge £5 billion into improving the nation's mobile coverage, having forged a deal with the government

The Mayor of London has launched a fund to finance budding tech start-ups across the capital.

Chancellor George Osborne has made his 2014 Autumn Statement in which he announced the introduction of new policies and new growth and borrowing forecasts.

British businesses are more confident than their rivals in other major economies despite clouds gathering over the global economy, according to a report.

Creating Britain’s answer to Google or Apple demands policies that focus less on “start-ups” and more on midsized “scale-ups”, says Sherry Coutu, author of a government commissioned report released on Monday.

David Cameron has promised the biggest programme of road-building since the 1970s to deal with around 100 of the worst "pinch points" on England's roads.

The government is calling on the events industry to help develop a strategy that will make the UK the number one destination for the international business events market.

The UK government has said it is pushing ahead with its plans to improve access to alternative financing for small businesses that have been rejected by the main high street banks.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced plans to provide free public Wi-Fi hotspots in more than 1,000 public buildings across the UK as part of its Super-Connected Cities programme.

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