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Segro, a U.K.-listed firm specializing in urban and big box warehouses across Europe, reported Friday a 62% increase in profit before tax between 2019 and 2020.

The U.K. is to be the first country in the world to run a Covid-19 “human challenge” study, following approval from the country’s clinical trials ethics body.

The U.K. and the EU have yet to find a solution for the financial services industry after Brexit. Recent data suggests Brussels may have the upper hand in talks.

British American Tobacco is looking at selling more cannabis products as it seeks to find new sources of revenue beyond cigarettes.

Sequoia has shunned London’s exclusive Mayfair neighborhood and decided to set up shop in nearby Marylebone.

More and more physicians and public health officials are warning that even with the mass rollout of vaccines, Covid may become endemic.

The U.K. economy experienced its largest contraction since records began in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged Britain’s economic activity.

Bill Michael, U.K. chairman of accounting giant KPMG, has quit his role after telling staff to stop moaning about the coronavirus pandemic.

Members of the leftist Five-Star Movement opted to back Draghi in an online poll conducted Thursday.

AstraZeneca has featured prominently in 2020 because of its coronavirus vaccine, although it has said will not profit from the inoculations during the pandemic.

A variant of the coronavirus that first emerged in the U.K. could become the dominant form worldwide, the head of the U.K.’s virus surveillance program says.

It comes at a time when the oil and gas industry is under immense pressure to dramatically speed up its plans to pivot away from fossil fuels.

Axel Hefer, the chief executive of European travel booking firm Trivago, believes attitudes toward the world’s biggest technology companies have changed.

Berlin mobility start-up Tier has a grand plan to charge the batteries that power its rental e-scooters and mopeds in shops around the world.

The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University has the same level of efficiency against the new Covid variant, according to new data Friday.

Italy’s latest political crisis was triggered when Renzi’s party withdrew political support for the coalition government led by Giuseppe Conte.

Researchers at the University of Oxford found that the vaccine was 76% effective at preventing symptomatic infection for three months after one dose.

Shares in online card retailer Moonpig jumped 25% within minutes of pricing its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

Ryanair expects this fiscal year to be “the most challenging” in its 35 year-history on the back of travel restrictions across Europe.

German online car trading platform Auto1 on Wednesday announced it is planning to list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the first quarter of 2021.