It comes after years of avoiding moving online with the closest service being its Click and Collect option which launched in 2022.

Customers can currently shop for some products online and ask for them to be delivered to their local Primark store, but the lack of online delivery options means they can’t receive their orders at their doors.

The retailer recently launched an app which allows UK customers to order items through the Click and Collect service.

Primark “knows it needs to go online”, according to sources speaking to The Times.

Newsquest has approached Primark for comment.

In April this year, Primark owner Associated British Foods (ABF) said it is to spin off its Primark retail business, breaking up one of the UK’s largest consumer businesses.

It came as Primark highlighted weaker trading in April as pressure from the Middle East conflict weighed on consumer sentiment.

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Shares in ABF dropped lower in early trading as a result.

The company, which runs large food, sugar and agriculture operations, said it expects to separate Primark by the end of 2027.

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The move comes after a significant review into the company structure in a bid to improve returns for shareholders.

Both companies are set to be listed on the FTSE 100 following the split.

Wittington Investments, the vehicle of Associated British Foods’ founding Weston family, is to keep majority stakes in both businesses.

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Lexsoft has made its T3 legal knowledge management system accessible through the Model Context Protocol and introduced a Microsoft-based OpenAI vectorised indexer in T3.

The changes are intended to connect T3 with a wider range of artificial intelligence tools used by law firms and corporate legal teams.

T3 previously operated as a standalone knowledge management product. Through MCP, organisations can now connect it to MCP-compatible AI orchestrators and external legal AI platforms for knowledge search, retrieval and classification.

This allows legal teams to use T3 as a source of curated, reviewed knowledge documents within broader AI-driven workflows. Lexsoft says the system is designed to provide the exact contextual reference for any datapoint or text extracted through AI.

MCP access

T3 can now work with legal AI orchestrators including Microsoft Copilot, Claude and Gemini, as well as third-party platforms such as Harvey. The move reflects a broader push by legal technology suppliers to make knowledge repositories easier to use within generative AI tools rather than as separate systems.

For law firms and in-house legal departments, the main challenge is often not access to documents but access to reviewed material that can be trusted in day-to-day work. Lexsoft is positioning T3 as a managed source of legal knowledge rather than a route into broader stores of unreviewed files held in document management systems.

The new indexer is intended to change how users search that material. Traditional indexing typically relies on exact words or close variations, while vector-based search is designed to identify related concepts and interpret terms in context.

Lexsoft gave the example of recognising that “contract” and “agreement” may be closely related, while distinguishing between terms spelt the same but carrying different meanings depending on context. In practice, that could help lawyers retrieve more relevant precedents, clauses or know-how documents when phrasing varies across teams and jurisdictions.

Search changes

The new vectorised indexer is hosted within a customer’s own OpenAI tenant in the Microsoft environment. According to Lexsoft, this helps organisations meet security and data residency requirements while retaining control over indexed information.

Lexsoft also says it does not index customer data itself. Customers can keep their existing indexer or move to the new version, allowing firms to choose whether to adopt semantic search immediately or continue with their current set-up.

Lexsoft operates in the legal sector across Europe, the United States and Latin America, supplying software and business process services to law firms and corporate legal departments. Its broader product offering includes document management, knowledge management, practice management and customer relationship management.

The update comes as legal technology providers and large software groups compete to make AI tools more usable in professional services settings, where oversight, document provenance and auditability remain important. In that context, systems that can connect knowledge stores to AI assistants without moving data outside approved environments have drawn increasing attention from firms assessing how to deploy generative AI in legal work.

Lexsoft framed the changes around the role of human-reviewed knowledge in AI-supported legal workflows. It said T3 is intended to sit between raw document collections and user-facing AI tools, giving lawyers access to approved material within the tools they already use.

“By combining MCP functionality, advanced semantic search, and human-centered review, T3 now plays a critical role in supporting the current wave of AI-led transformation of working practices in the legal sector,” said Carlos García-Egocheaga, Chief Executive of Lexsoft.

“We are developing T3 so that the solution enables organizations to optimally use AI for knowledge management while ensuring safeguards through close human involvement and oversight. The best part is that through generative AI tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Gemini, or Harvey, T3 knowledge management is seamlessly embedded within the legal workflow. In effect, the solution becomes invisible. Lawyers can simply trust that they are accessing the best knowledge documents as a matter of course,” he said.

Smarts Fish and Chip Shop at 47 Oxford Street is listed as ‘temporarily closed’ online, the latest in a series of business changes over recent years.

The popular takeaway first shut in 2018 after the owners put up a sign saying they were on holiday and then, mysteriously, did not seem to return, and the property was repossessed.

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It was then reopened and run as a successful family venture after a two year interval in 2020, taken over by Ana and Cristiano Barbosa.

The owners said customers were ‘chuffed to bits’ that the business was back as it was the only chippy around and enjoyed a good reputation in the area.

Smarts Fish and Chip takeaway in Oxford Street, Woodstock (Image: Google)

Now, however, Smarts is once again shut, and it’s being offered for sale to a new management team.

A listing online is offering the leasehold of the ‘fully equipped and fitted’ vacant fish and chip shop for sale at £28,000 plus VAT annual rent.

It is described as an ‘attractive double-fronted glazed frontage with excellent natural light’, as well as having a rear prep kitchen, potato prep area and basement storage.

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It also has an enclosed garden courtyard with a powered shed for ‘storage or ancillary use’.

The shop, which is around 1,230 sq ft, seats 32 covers in a dedicated customer seating area.

Previous owners explained the enduring popularity of fish and chips with locals and its prime spot for tourist footfall.