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Many of us dive in and out of playing the National Lottery, often with a lucky dip.  Others religiously stick to the same numbers they’ve played for decades while many simply ignore it all together, a long shot, an epic waste of money, an idiot tax. Wherever you sit on this spectrum, it’s likely you […]

Tenants in Brighton saw the sharpest increase in rental costs last year, data for This is Money shows.  Rental costs for tenants in the trendy seaside city jumped 15 per cent from £2,255 a month at the start of last year to to £2,602 by the end, the analysis shows. Across Britain, the south coast

By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 March 2026 Easyjet, Rightmove and Hikma Pharmaceuticals have just two days to save their status as FTSE 100 companies after a sharp fall in their share prices. The latest reshuffle of London’s main indexes is based on closing share prices tomorrow with the results confirmed on

By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 March 2026 ITV is looking forward to a bumper summer as it pins its hopes on a surge in advertising revenues over the World Cup. Bosses are expected to strike an upbeat tone about the year ahead when they deliver annual results for 2025 on Thursday.

By RUTH SUNDERLAND Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 March 2026 Everyone loves an acronym, and traders are no exception. We have had Taco, standing for Trump always chickens out, or the view that the US President will back away from his threats on tariffs. Yolo (you only live once) and Fomo (fear of missing out) are

By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 March 2026 The ‘punitive’ inheritance tax raid on family firms will harm the economy and raise less than half a day’s spending on welfare, Rachel Reeves has been warned. Business leaders are making a last‑ditch appeal to the Chancellor to scrap plans to impose a 20 per cent

Britain has a national debt problem. Britain’s mass affluent families have an inheritance tax problem. Sometimes when you have two problems, there’s one solution that’s staring you in the face. We should shift our dependency away from twitchy institutional investors and instead tap up deep-pocketed British savers, who would be happy to lock their money

Rolls-Royce shares have rocketed 1,178 per cent in five years and the British engineering powerhouse’s bumper results this morning sent them up again. So, is it too late to join the party? Can the shares continue their incredible run? Or, if you’re lucky enough already to own them, is now the time to your take

By ANGHARAD CARRICK, BUSINESS NEWS EDITOR Updated: 09:29 GMT, 27 February 2026 International Airlines Group (IAG) has reported record profits as it benefited from lower fuel prices and growing demand for its premium services. The British Airways owner saw operating profit grow 17.3 per cent to €5billion (£4.38bn) on revenue of €33billion (£28.9bn) in 2025.

By HELEN KIRRANE, REPORTER, THIS IS MONEY Updated: 09:55 GMT, 27 February 2026 Products featured in this article are independently selected by This is Money’s specialist journalists. If you open an account using links which have an asterisk, This is Money will earn an affiliate commission. We do not allow this to affect our editorial