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JCB to cut UK jobs as global orders slump

Heavy engineering group with factories in 18 countries is cutting 500 manufacturing jobs and other job cuts will follow

CBI speaks out against the Planning Bill

Business lobby raises concerns about obstacles to energy and transport as Bill faces second reading in House of Lords

Shares in Oxford Biomedica plummet

The biotechnology company discloses that its important kidney cancer vaccination drug TroVax has failed in key tests

Cyprus talks fail to resolve stand-off at TNK-BP

The stand-off between BP and its joint venture partners continued at a meeting to discuss control of Russia's oil producers

Amec group scoops deal to clean up Sellafield

A consortium including Amec, Areva and Washington Division, took a £6.75bn contract to clean up the nuclear power station

Tempus analysis: Nuclear option

Amec group wins £6.75bn Sellafield deal

Amec, Areva of France, and Washington Group of the US snatch five-year competition to clean up North West site

GE to spin off consumer and industrial divisions

General Electric has caved to pressure to reduce its diverse offering after a 5.8 per cent decline in first-quarter profits

Sellafield to be taken private this week

The Government will tomorrow announce the winner of the contract to manage the UK's key nuclear reprocessing site

Buffett aids $19bn Dow Chemical deal

Warren Buffett and the Kuwait Investment Authority are backing US chemical group's acquisition of Rohm & Hass

GM plans US overhaul amid bankruptcy talk

With Merrill Lynch warning that bankruptcy is 'not impossible', General Motors is considering thousands of US job cuts

Field narrows for Sellafield clean up

The Times understands ministers have whittled down contenders for a £1bn-a-year contract to clean up the nuclear site to two

Sharewatch: Insulation lets the cold in

Stirling-based Superglass, maker of glass-fibre insulation for buildings, slumped last week following the company’s second profits warning...