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Coronavirus – Tue Aug 18, 2020

Issa brothers complete £6.8bn Asda takeover

Autumn weather Sept 16th 2020

Hikes to income tax and VAT likely as UK recovers from Covid-19, think tank says

Dunelm

Dunelm deputy chairman makes £192m through share sale

A wallet containing cash

‘Click and collect’ cash initiative coming to the UK

Serco van

Serco shares soar after £212m US defence purchase

Ebay

Adevinta and Ebay’s £6.5bn Gumtree deal ‘could lead to higher prices’

Computer-generated image of the proposed Coventry gigafactory

Coventry to seek planning permission for new electric car battery gigafactory

BHP is to hand shareholders a record interim dividend

BHP announces record dividend as miner buoyed by Chinese demand

Woman drinking glass of wine

Virgin Wines pops cork on stock market flotation

A Royal Mint coin featuring Little Miss Giggles and Mr Strong

New coin collection celebrates 50 years of Mr Men and Little Miss characters

Rishi Sunak

Chancellor should phase out furlough gradually, says IFS

UK property register

UK needs competition rules for the digital age – report

Dominic Cummings

High Court judge ponders awarding of contract to friends of Dominic Cummings

Coronavirus – Sat Jan 23, 2021

Vaccine provides a shot in the arm to UK markets

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Okonjo-Iweala becomes first woman and African to head World Trade Organisation

Jaguar will stop building cars with internal combustion engines over the next four years (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Jaguar to go all-electric from 2025

Dominic Cummings

Dominic Cummings denies asking for friends to be given ‘focus group’ contract

Falls in travel and tourism employment during the coronavirus pandemic outweighed increases in other industries, new figures show (Steve Parsons/PA)

Travel and tourism suffers worst employment hit