This year’s award is the 21st edition of the prestigious FT prize and is worth £30,000 to the author or authors of the winning book. It is the first for 15 years in which a novel made the longlist.

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UK winemaker Chapel Down has scrapped plans to build a £32mn winery as part of a strategic overhaul it hopes will return the business to profitability amid slowing demand for English wine.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has refused to distance himself from comments made by US President Donald Trump linking the use of paracetamol by pregnant women to autism in children.

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Spanish energy group takes advantage of state-level decisions in US and hails ‘evolution’ of UK regulator Ofgem ...

Angola has submitted a bid for a minority stake in De Beers, one of the world’s leading diamond companies that has been put up for sale by owner Anglo American.

On the Beach said total transaction value rose 11 per cent compared with a year ago, while bookings for summer 2025 were 12 per cent ahead of last year. Shaun Morton, chief executive, said customers ...