Paul Hodgson

A recent report says the U.K. Environment Agency is investigating complaints of widespread fraud and non-compliance with waste regulations being perpetrated by organised criminals and certain U.K. firms—a claim the agency will neither confirm nor deny.

There’s a lot more at stake for the United Kingdom than just interrupted Netflix access should a no-deal Brexit become a reality.

A Shell pensioner is threatening to take his own pension fund to the U.K.’s Pensions Ombudsman for maladministration—unless the company can prove it is managing its climate-related risk.

A no-deal Brexit could have serious consequences for the corporate realm, but few companies appear armed for the challenges. In contrast is U.K. retailer Next, which has published a paper on its preparations that could help others face a no-deal Brexit possibility.

The last time the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority attempted to break up what is widely referred to as an oligopoly of the audit market by the Big Four audit firms—EY, PwC, Deloitte and KPMG—its actions had the opposite effect.

A scathing report calls out large number of U.K. agricultural companies for non-compliance with the Modern Slavery Act.

Parcel delivery firm Royal Mail is appealing a decision from U.K. communications regulator Ofcom, which determined the company sought to thwart wholesale customer Whistl from competing with its bulk mail delivery service.

In an as-yet unreleased—officially, at any rate—letter, the EU’s industry and climate commissioners Miguel Cañete and Elzbieta Bienkowska outline evidence of widespread manipulation in the car industry of new emissions tests, known as the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP).