Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from British Petroleum

When BP chiefs depart, it’s usually a dramatic exit

City Comment: These embarrassing boardroom distractions are not helpful

Evening Standard

FTSE 100 Live: Shares close flat as UK GDP shrinks by 0.5%, BP CEO quits, US inflation up

The shock resignation of one of the UK’s most influential captains of industry was the main talking point on London’s stock market today, as the FTSE 100 held steady overall.

Evening Standard

BP ‘turtle’ Brendan Looney out of the company he loved after relationships with staff

The story of how BP’s £10m-a-year-boss Brendan Looney had it all and threw it away

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

BP shares fall after shock departure of chief executive

Bernard Looney resigned having admitted to failing to fully detail relationships with colleagues

The Guardian - UK

BP leader is the latest to resign over questions about personal conduct

Global energy giant BP is scurrying to find a new chief executive after CEO Bernard Looney became the latest corporate leader to step down amid questions about his personal conduct

The Independent UK

Four charged with fraud over Patisserie Valerie collapse; UK GDP shrinks 0.5% in July – as it happened

All three main sectors of the economy in decline after strikes by doctors, radiographers and teachers, while construction and retail hit by wet weather

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: What Kim Jong-un wants from his surprise meeting with Vladimir Putin

In today’s newsletter: The North Korean leader makes his first international trip in four years – but what’s at stake?

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

BP boss Bernard Looney resigns over past relationships with colleagues

Irishman took role as chief executive of oil giant in February 2020 with pledge to make it carbon neutral by mid-century

The Independent UK

BP boss Bernard Looney resigns after failing to reveal relationships with colleagues

Company says he only disclosed ‘a small number of historical relationships prior to becoming CEO’

The Guardian - UK

BP chief executive Bernard Looney resigns over past relationships with colleagues

The chief executive of British energy giant BP has resigned after he accepted that he was not “fully transparent” in his disclosures about past relationships with colleagues

The Independent UK

Shock as BP boss quits over ‘relationships with colleagues’

According to BP’s annual report, Looney was paid £10 million last year

Evening Standard

Step Into September With 3 Strong Energy Buys

Forecasts by industry professionals indicate an upswing in oil prices due to increased demand and supply constraints. The rising price trends could significantly strengthen the energy sector in the near term. Therefore, entering September, fundamentally strong energy stocks BP p.l.c. (BP), Transportadora de Gas del Sur S.A. (TGS), and GeoPark…

StockNews.com

Supercars extends biofuel to second, third tiers

The main game moved from an E85 blend to an E75 biofuel for this season, which contains more than 80 per cent second-generation fuel components.

Motorsport

Why Ambitious U.S. Emissions Reduction Goals Are Increasingly Out of Reach

Amid huge profits for oil majors, pressure builds on banks to cut ties.

Capital & Main

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Cambridge engineer taps ex-Tory Treasurer to invest in Earzz home listening device

James Lupton, who attracted controversy for being given a peerage after he was found to have donated millions of pounds to the Conservative Party, controls a 13% stake in the business

The Guardian - UK

Brand aid: have Britain’s arts venues sold out to The Man?

Manchester’s Aviva Studios is the latest venue to give its naming rights to the highest bidder. Is corporate sponsorship a necessity for the survival of the arts?

The Guardian - UK

More than 100 MPs received freebies worth £180,000 this summer

Exclusive: Oliver Dowden and Keir Starmer among those who enjoyed free tickets to events including the Chelsea flower show and the Derby

Fortune

The top 100 bosses in the U.K. scored a pay hike of over $600k last year—the highest in six years

Among the highest paid CEOs were pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca’s chief Pascal Soriot, with £15.3 million ($19.6 million), and defense company BAE Systems CEO Charles Woodburn, who earned £10.7 million ($13.7 million).

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Top UK CEOs handed 16% pay rise as millions of workers squeezed – as it happened

Data from the High Pay Centre thinktank showed FTSE 100 bosses collected an average £500,000 pay rise last year, taking their median pay to £3.9m

The Guardian - UK

FTSE 100 bosses ‘given average pay rise of £500,000 in 2022’

CEOs received average increase of 16% while pay of many working for them failed to keep up with inflation

The Independent UK

Fat cat bosses enjoy £500m pay rise as CEO salaries soar during cost of living crisis

Britain now ‘land of grotesque extremes’, say unions as wage gap widens

The Guardian - UK

Plenty of questions await British Museum when it begins search for next director

Challenges facing institution include debate over Parthenon marbles, protests about BP links and a police investigation into missing items

Newcastle Herald

Mayfield apartment development plans herald boom time for Maitland Road

The Mayfield corridor is poised to mirror Brunker Road at Adamstown.

The National (Scotland)

Stephen Flynn defends taking VIP Wimbledon tickets from BP oil giant

STEPHEN Flynn has defended taking exclusive tickets to Wimbledon from the oil industry giant BP.

The Guardian - UK

Of course Greta Thunberg is right to call out greenwashing, but the reality can be messy

Her withdrawal from the Edinburgh book festival raises questions about how best to demand change, says Guardian columnist Charlotte Higgins

1 … 31 32 33 34

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Office for National Statistics

the Conservative Party

933 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.