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A KPMG sign

Government to scrap accountancy regulator and break up Big Four dominance

City Views – London

London shares drop as traders wait for speech from Fed chairman Powell

Charlie Mullins

Pimlico Plumbers claims victory in long running employment case

A view of houses

Millions of payment holidays granted to borrowers during year of lockdowns

A closed Upper Crust outlet

SSP taps shareholders for £475m as sales remain slow in airports and stations

Interest rates

Bank to ‘sit tight on rates’ amid growing recovery optimism

Uber UK drivers to receive improved pay and conditions

Uber decision on drivers’ conditions opens the door for other workers – unions

JustEat

Pandemic sales surge boosts Just Eat chief’s pay packet by 57%

Planes at an airfield

‘Final call’ for support of aviation industry

Serco logo

New deal in Canada could bring £870m to outsourcer Serco

Capita boss

Call centre giant Capita tells 35,000 staff they can work from home permanently

A worker in a factory

JCB creates new jobs at its UK factories

Water coming out tap

Water customers to save £34 a year after watchdog goes cold on investor returns

5G rollout

Mobile firms spend more than £1.3 billion in latest 5G spectrum auction

Dignity

Dignity slumps to loss despite UK death toll soaring to highest since 1918

Uber Supreme Court case

Uber drivers in UK to get earnings guarantee, holiday pay and pensions

Piggy bank

£8,000 average shortfall in rainy day savings pots, survey finds

People look out towards cruise ships at berth in Weymouth Bay (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Unvaccinated holidaymakers banned from staycation cruises