UK government borrowing overshot forecasts in March, producing a budget deficit that was £6.6bn higher than expected, official data revealed on Tuesday, damaging plans for a pre-election tax cut by Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt.
Tesla is set to trim around 400 positions at its German gigafactory near Berlin, it emerged on Tuesday, accounting for 3% of the factory's total workforce.
The average asking price of a UK home rose at its fastest annual pace in a year in April, with "top-of-the-ladder" homes seeing the biggest growth in activity, according to a survey released on Monday by property website Rightmove.