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Alex Lawson

Alex Lawson is a business correspondent at the Guardian

October 2024

  • headshot of him wearing glasses

    TV producer Hat Trick pays £4.2m to founder Jimmy Mulville and wife

    Revenues dip to £48.4m and company behind Mastermind and Derry Girls stays in red after it makes fewer series
  • King Charles III first-class stamps

    UK charities fear first-class stamp price rise will mean fewer Christmas cards sent

    Concern over less money reaching good causes because of Royal Mail’s ‘shortsighted’ 30p increase to £1.65

    • Nuclear Leaks
      Sellafield ordered to pay nearly £400,000 over cybersecurity failings

    • Small firms face near-30% rise in water bills, Ofwat letter reveals

    • Starmer urged to help households as energy bills rise by £149 a year

September 2024

  • Thames Water logo on protective fencing around pipe work

    Thames Water could be blocked from new debt financing next week

  • People walking in and out of the front entrance of a Pret A Manger

    Pret a Manger’s sales pass £1bn for first time as it expands overseas

  • Nigel Oddy, chief executive of American Golf.

    Observer business profile
    ‘We don’t want golf just to be for retired guys … it’s for everyone’: Nigel Oddy of American Golf

  • Stock image of a smart energy meter.

    Energy suppliers told to improve customer service or face firm action

  • BP extends use of AI in five-year deal with spy tech firm Palantir

  • Royal Mail considers bin collection-style website for letter delivery days

August 2024

  • Wind turbines and electricity pylons dominate the landscape at Ince Marshes in Runcorn, Cheshire

    Ministers urged to step in to save UK firms struggling with high energy costs

  • Two young women in festival field with beer glasses

    Observer business agenda
    Smaller UK music festivals struggle to be heard in crowded market

  • Postman seen through a customer's open letterbox

    Royal Mail delivers less than 80% of first-class post on time

  • Water going down a plughole

    Ministers urged to end water ‘postcode lottery’ with single social tariff

  • Half-year earnings rise 12.5% at UK’s largest pawnbroker H&T

  • Thames Water barred from billing customers for pension shortfall

  • The mystery of the ‘vanishing’ diamond dealer: fury in the City after multimillion collapse of Vashi

  • Nuclear Leaks
    Sellafield apologises after guilty plea over string of cybersecurity failings

  • Thames Water’s turnaround plan to be supervised by independent monitor

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