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Industry Editor @Telegraph. Formerly @DailyMailUK and @theoxfordmail. Send tips and stories to [email protected]

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New: China builds equivalent of the entire Royal Navy *in just four years*. Beijing's massive naval expansion is also being unwittingly supported by foreign companies, which provide 75pc of orders for state-owned, "dual use" shipyards. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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New: Ministers poised to walk back plans for a ban on sales of some new hybrid cars post-2030, following a backlash from manufacturers. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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Heathrow says it would “not have been possible” to protect the airport from Friday’s power outage - experts disagree. “There is no reason why Heathrow could not have the same automatic failover systems that worked perfectly for nearby data centres.” telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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🪖 The EU’s rearmament stunt could be costly – and not just for Britain Read the feature ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

🪖 The EU’s rearmament stunt could be costly – and not just for Britain

Read the feature ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
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Nationalising British Steel would be costly - accounts published today show the company lost £231m in 2023 alone and had debts of £700m+ to companies affiliated with Chinese owner Jingye More details here in our updated story: telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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Britten-Norman is now investigating potential IP theft, while shadow security minister Alicia Kearns MP has condemned the "industrialised nature of intellectual property theft by the Chinese Communist Party." Details: telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/0…

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🚨EXCLUSIVE Inside British Steel, the UK's last remaining primary steelmaker. First footage of the blast furnaces in half a decade. With the plant's Chinese owners preparing for its closure, this might be the last glimpse of virgin steelmaking in the country that invented it👇

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New: Ed Miliband has received advice recommending Britain switch to a regional power pricing system. Whitehall sources insist Energy Secretary has not made a final decision - but it represents a potentially significant blow to opponents of the policy. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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EXC: Britain’s only water desalination plant, run by Thames Water, will spend another summer out of action, despite a warm and dry spring stoking fears of drought. MPs due to quiz Thames execs at 10am… telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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Update: Alistair Carmichael MP asks why Thames Water's £250m desalination plant (the only one in Britain) is not available this summer despite drought fears. Chris Weston, the CEO, says it is broken, they can't fix it, and tells MPs: "I wonder why it was built in the first place".

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A new story in The Telegraph by Matt Oliver on how the West has failed against DJI in the drone market & the consequences of that. There's a few insights from me, I did go off on an entire history of the drone industry on the phone... 🤓😄 telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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New: Britain’s most advanced warplanes (F-35Bs) will be unable to shoot missiles at ground targets until at least 2030, ministers have admitted… telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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The energy-intensive sector in Britain has a turnover of £170 billion, a GVA of nearly £40 billion, and employs over 400,000 people. Energy costs are crippling it. The government is only going to be more hamstrung by this. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/2…

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🤝The Telegraph is to be sold to a transatlantic consortium led by RedBird Capital Partners under a preliminary deal to end two years of gruelling uncertainty and deliver significant investment in journalism.

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In the small hours of this morning the Waterloo signallers had left a neat little message in the signalling system:"Fare Well SWR"

In the small hours of this morning the Waterloo signallers had left a neat little message in the signalling system:"Fare Well SWR"
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“Overall this SDR reminds me of a cake. A nice looking one with some pretty icing and the promise of some candles tomorrow. The problem is, the defence cake doesn’t really need more icing, it needs a new pedestal, more base ingredients and if not new chefs, at least a wholly new