Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track layoffs

Thames Water’s lenders have submitted a new rescue plan to prevent the UK’s largest water company from collapsing. London & Valley Water, a consortium of large financial institutions and investors, has submitted proposals which include writing off about a third of the company’s near £20bn debt pile and investing an initial £5.4bn to stablise the…

Almost half of people in Britain live in areas where economic growth does not translate into a better quality of life with a “stark” North-South divide in the spending power of households, a new report finds. Researchers at consultancy PwC said every region in the north of England, Midlands and Wales had lower spending power…