Britain could face a shortage of Guinness Zero this Christmas as workers at Diageo’s Belfast site plan eight days of strikes over pay, from December 5 to 13. Around 90 employees, represented by Unite, are seeking higher wages, citing disparities with staff at a Cheshire facility.

A new report from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) estimates that more than 800,000 children in the UK aged three to five are already engaging with social media, while around 40% of children aged under 13 have their own social media profile despite current restrictions. Former education minister Lord Nash said evidence that “children…

JPMorgan has announced it will build a 3m sq ft tower in East London’s Canary Wharf, its largest office in EMEA, housing up to 12,000 employees. The investment, worth £9.9bn ($13.1bn) over six years, will create 7,800 jobs. JPMorgan chairman Jamie Dimon cited UK economic policy and the government’s growth agenda as key factors behind…

More than 1.7m people will pay more income tax after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a three-year extension to the freeze on thresholds that will see some workers dragged into paying the tax for the first time and others shifted into higher bands as earnings increase. It means the income tax personal allowance will remain at…

The UK government has been warned that its plan to ban operators of critical national infrastructure from paying ransoms won’t stop cyber attacks and could result in essential services collapsing.

The High Court in London has ruled that BHP, the world’s biggest mining company, is legally liable for one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of Brazil. Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, around 2,000 businesses, and dozens of local governments had sued BHP over the collapse of the Fundao dam in Mariana, in…