Warmer winter hits profits at British Gas owner Centrica

Zoe Conway and Kirstie BrewerBBC Panorama Watch Panorama’s undercover filming: “You’ll make no money my friend unless you get all your parcels out. Get them all out.” When Becky ordered a Barbie doll for her daughter, she got a notification from delivery firm Evri saying it had arrived. There was just one problem: it was…

Egon CossouBusiness reporter Trinity Metals You probably don’t give much thought to the device that you’re reading this article on, as long as it looks good and keeps working. But the elements that power and run it are the subject of an escalating struggle between the world’s two biggest economies – the US and China…

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor BBC Tech firms such as Microsoft, whose Majorana chip is pictured here, are racing to embrace quantum There’s an old adage among tech journalists like me – you can either explain quantum accurately, or in a way that people understand, but you can’t do both. That’s because quantum mechanics – a strange…

Theo LeggettBusiness Correspondent Getty Images Government discounts for electric vehicles are “unsustainable”, a major motoring group has warned, as the number of new cars registered in the UK exceeded two million last year for the first time since the pandemic. Nearly 500,000 of the new cars sold were electric, according to new figures from the…