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A Card Factory shop

Card Factory given one-month waiver over loan breach

Tax

Bet365 boss remains UK’s biggest taxpayer

Banknotes and coins

Major banks urged to publicly commit to maintaining cash access

A construction site

Number of new-build homes registered in 2020 was at eight-year low

A home boiler

Prepay energy customers ‘worried about bills as spending increases’

Coronavirus – Mon Dec 21, 2020

High street crisis deepens as more shops shuttered for good

Undated Horizon handout image of an artist's impression of a planned nuclear power station at Wylfa on Anglesey in north Wales (Horizon/PA)

End of plans for new nuclear power station

A Saltire purse

Scottish GDP will not return to pre-Covid levels ‘until 2024’

GKN planning job cuts

Plans to close factory making parts for car companies

City skyline

Shares close down as FTSE turned on its head

Remains of a Barclays Bank sign

Banks should reconsider plans to close branches during lockdown says FCA

Halifax sign

Mortgage lenders expand 10% deposit ranges

Environment

Nearly half of green claims made by firms could be misleading – global study

A woman uses a laptop while holding a bank card

Bank transfer scam victims could receive more consistent treatment

Paperchase store

Around 1,000 jobs saved in Paperchase rescue deal – but 37 stores to close

Furlough

One in eight UK workers were furloughed at the end of 2020

Girls drinking Robinsons squash

Sales at Robinsons squash maker Britvic slide amid hospitality closures

A Prudential sign

Prudential to spin off US arm by summer and ponder equity raise