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Coronavirus

Government must tighten rules to end shopworker abuse, retailers urge

A pub manager pours away beer

Up to 87m pints of beer thrown away since pandemic started, industry body claims

Rooney Anand

Former Greene King boss launches pub venture with £200m investment

Houses in Hexham in Northumberland

House prices dip by 0.3% in January in signs market uplift running out of steam

The concourse at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, London

On The Beach warns holiday bookings to be ‘weak’ until restrictions lift

Plane landing

Blackstone muscles in on £3.5bn Signature Aviation takeover

Coronavirus

Energy bills set to go up almost £100 for 15m households after Ofgem raises cap

Oxford Street Stores Stock

Two suitors approach French Connection over potential takeover

Jes Staley investigation

UK should try competing with US and Asia, not Europe – Barclays CEO

Cereal packets in a Tesco store

Supermarket convenience store shoppers ‘spending £320 more a year on groceries’

Properties with 'To let' signs

Reform stamp duty to boost supply of rental homes, landlords urge

A man walks along Green Street in east London, a normally busy shopping street which is now a road of boarded up shops

Shopper footfall goes from ‘bad to worse’ in January due to lockdown

For sale and sold signs outside houses

Proportion of house sales falling through increases as stamp duty deadline looms

A legal problem is partly behind the Government's delay in releasing details of how quarantine hotels will work (Steve Parsons/PA)

Legal hurdle delays plan for quarantine hotels

Money stock

FTSE weighed down as Bank decision lights fire under sterling

Cadbury factory

Mondelez to bring more Dairy Milk production back to Bournville

Plane flies over hotel sign

Hotel firm criticises delayed plan for new quarantine policy

A roulette wheel and gambling chips

Greater risk of unemployment and death for heavy gamblers, research says