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In this Insights in Focus episode, we discuss the major challenges facing UK businesses, including energy costs, recruitment and retention of staff, and wage inflation.

In the late actor’s diaries, his merciless verdicts on showbiz idiocy are tempered by a deep loyalty and humanity.

Rising house prices have pushed the overall valuation of the UK housing stock to a record £7 trillion, according to the Equity Release Council. The later life lending body says the country’s stock of homes hit that level after annual house price gains hit 12.8% in May as “strong demand” continues to boost prices. It

Government energy support measures do little to quash concerns about the impact of rising fuel prices on the viability of thousands of pubs

Shomit Dutta’s play imagines the two cricket-obsessed Nobel prize winners as waiting batsmen in an enjoyable spin on Waiting for Godot and The Dumb Waiter<br>

Long before he became the august Sir Tom Stoppard, hailed by some as the greatest British playwright since Shakespeare, Stoppard was a teenage journal

Businesses have been promised “equivalent support” to the domestic energy price cap of £2,500 a year, but no detail is expected on the plan until the Chancellor’s fiscal statement later this month.

After years of living “as if without history,” the playwright belatedly reckons with his Jewish roots, and his guilt, in “Leopoldstadt,” his most autobiographical play.

What a night!

THERES less than two weeks to go until the return of the award-winning Dorset Seafood Festival.