Category: 6. Business

A pornography company that runs 18 adult websites has been fined £1m by the watchdog Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks.

AVS Group Ltd has been hit with the fine, plus a further £50,000 for failing to respond to information requests.

“Crops look better and profitability is returning even in challenging years”: Mars champions Europe’s farmers and calls for the conditions to scale climate-smart agriculture

• More than 300 farmers across Europe already working with Mars to…

Interview with Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Takerou Minami on 26 November 2025

4 December 2025

Why is the digital euro needed in Europe now?

The use of cash is declining because we cannot use it to pay…

• Hyundai Motor Group, together with its 7 affiliates, highlights cutting-edge hydrogen technologies and real-world applications at Korea’s largest hydrogen event
• World Hydrogen Expo attracts 250+ companies from 25+…

In November, Norwegian had 1.5 million passengers, while Widerøe had 324,000 passengers, bringing the Group total to 1.84 million passengers. The November load factor of 85.5 percent was a record high for Norwegian.

“We had a strong performance…

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Yields on Japan’s benchmark government bonds rose to their highest level since 2007 as investors fretted over Prime…

Plans to expand contactless payments to 20 stations have been delayed by six months, a train operator has said.

Greater Anglia announced last month it would introduce a tap-in tap-out ticketing system at barriers across several stations in Essex…

A good 20 months have passed since the shareholders of Thames Water declared they wouldn’t be putting another penny into the “uninvestable” company and would rather take a thumping write-off of their investment.

So surely, you’d think, we…