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People sun bathing in New Brighton in Merseyside (Peter Byrne/PA)

Soaring demand for summer staycations – survey

Boris Johnson has urged people wanting to book a summer holiday to be 'a little bit more patient' (Yui Mok/PA)

PM: People wanting to book summer holiday must be ‘patient’

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey

‘Dangerous and inconsistent’ for UK to be tied to EU finance rules – Governor

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said it is too early to book foreign holidays

No holidays until ‘everybody’ gets Covid jab – Transport Secretary

Coronavirus – Thu Sep 24, 2020

Pound climbs to three-year high as equity markets dip amid trading caution

Prezzo

Prezzo to axe 22 restaurants and 216 jobs after administration deal

A plane taking off

‘Too soon’ to book a holiday, says Shapps

London skyline

Huge cost to London’s economy over Brexit deal – report

Heineken cardboard beer grips

Heineken to axe 8,000 jobs after pub and bar closures hammer sales

Houses being built

Redrow warns over impact from self-isolating workers as profits rise

A royal mail worker delivering a package

Smurfit Kappa beats earnings guidance as online sales prove strong

A Sainsbury’s store

Sainsbury’s to cut hundreds of grocery prices in bid to match Aldi

Dunelm Mill

Don’t stop supermarkets selling homewares while my stores are shut – Dunelm boss

A housing development by Persimmons Homes

Persimmon takes £75m hit for tower block cladding measures

John Kirkby

Debt relief charity founder with ‘passion for financial justice’ stepping back

Shuttered shops

More than half a million firms at risk of failure amid cash crisis, report warns

A distillery

Pandemic sees UK gain record number of new distilleries

House with for sale sign

Price tags on first-time buyer homes in north-west England ‘rising fastest’