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Fourteen new trains are to be built at a Hitachi plant in County Durham, securing hundreds of jobs.

The owner of The Guardian is pressing ahead with the sale of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper to a fledgling digital media company, just hours after scores of journalists went on strike in protest at the deal.

Dale Vince, the activist and entrepreneur, has accused the owners of The Guardian of telling "a complete untruth" about his interest in taking control of The Observer.

TikTok has lost an appeal against plans to ban the video-sharing app in the US.

The UK's biggest water provider has received another bid, despite having declared itself "uninvestable".

One of the UK's biggest insurers could get even bigger as Direct Line looks set to accept a sweetened £3.61bn takeover bid from Aviva.

Across Europe, car companies are cutting jobs and shutting factories - to the extent that some question their very existence. So it's worth asking the question: what's gone wrong with Europe (and for that matter America's) car industry?

A music-streaming service whose shareholders include the U2 bassist Adam Clayton and the financier Guy Hands is closing in on a solvent restructuring that will pave the way for it to launch a string of new interactive TV channels in the US.

Thames Water's largest creditor group has failed to secure a veto over whether a £3bn emergency funding injection is used to settle regulatory fines imposed for a string of environmental and performance failings.

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for 25% of new car registrations in November, an almost 60% increase year-on-year - and well above a government target manufacturers have called on ministers to relax.