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Shoppers

Clothing and transport costs pushed up inflation in December

Hornby warns over mounting losses

Hornby on track for up to 20% rise in sales

Strike

British Gas engineers launch fresh wave of strikes over pay and conditions

A Burberry shop

Burberry cautions over tax-free shopping hit as festive sales fall

A graduate adjusts their cap

Pearson to hit profit expectations despite shut Australian immigration centres

Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma (Firdia Lisnawati/AP)

Chinese tycoon Jack Ma makes video appearance after spell out of public view

Dixons Carphone

‘We’re winning online’ says Dixons boss after three quarters of sales go digital

Covid-proofing

MPs ask HMRC to explain why some taxpayers got no Covid-19 support

Frances O’Grady called for a clamp down on ethnic discrimination (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Black and minority workers 26 times worse hit in Covid employment crisis

An elderly woman holding coins

Typical weekly cost of private residential care ‘varies by more than £800’

A mobile phone

Helplines forecast receiving a call about debt every four minutes in January

Loughborough high street

Household savings under pressure as short-term emergencies take priority: study

Fishing boats

Seafood exporters to claim up to £100,000 to cover Brexit losses

Vauxhall's owner will decide the fate of its UK car plant at Ellesmere Port within weeks (Martin Rickett/PA)

Future of Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant to be decided in ‘a few weeks’

Coronavirus – Wed Sep 23, 2020

Wetherspoon seeks £92m cash boost as pubs expected to stay shut until March

Kempton Park Races – January 9th

FTSE drops after US casino giant pulls out of bid for Ladbrokes owner Entain

A Eurostar information board at Gare du Nord train station in Paris

Eurostar concerns grow as head of France’s state rail firm sounds alarm

A woman’s hand presses a key of a laptop keyboard

Watchdog calls for greater oversight of algorithms