Green groups have cautiously welcomed government plans to pay farmers and landowners to adopt nature and climate-friendly practices, but voiced concern about a lack of detail.
A business group has warned of the impact of an "unprecedented" surge in inflation on its membership, but said firms are wary of another rise in interest rates for fear it would knock the ongoing COVID recovery.
It is instructive that, on news that Sony is setting up a unit to examine going into the electric vehicle market, its shares jumped by more than 4% on the Tokyo stock market.
The UK car industry says growing demand for electric cars was the only "bright spot" for the sector last year as a string of coronavirus crisis-related challenges combined to knock sales.
The strategic consulting firm which last year led the buyout of Deloitte's UK restructuring operations will this week swoop on an overseas unit of KPMG, another of the big four global accountancy firms.
Shoppers' monthly grocery bills were nearly £15 higher in December than a year earlier according to industry data - adding to evidence of growing pressure on the cost of living over Christmas.
Travel firms are calling for the removal of COVID testing restrictions, saying it would have no real impact on the spread of the Omicron variant in the UK.