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A Ladbrokes shop sign

MGM Resorts ditches plan for £8bn takeover of Ladbrokes owner

HGVs will need a safety permit if they are driven in London from March 1 (Transport for London/PA)

Thousands of freight firms face £550 daily fines in London’s blind spot scheme

Royal Mint gold bars

Sharp increase in millennial gold investors recorded by the Royal Mint

Arcadia Group

Arcadia administrators to shut 31 stores with 714 job losses

Superdry financials

Superdry sounds going concern warning as lockdowns hit sales

Premier Foods basket

Mr Kipling maker Premier Foods expects lockdown sales boom to continue

An HSBC advert

HSBC branch closures list in full

Various credit cards

Credit card balances shrink sharply as repayments outstrip new borrowing

HSBC

HSBC to close 82 branches across the UK

A crane on a Kier construction site

Kier shares jump on rosier half-year outlook

A Boeing 737 Max

Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again in Europe from next week

A Deliveroo worker on a bike

Next boss joins board of Deliveroo

An Aldi store

Aldi workers bag pay rise after ‘outstanding efforts’ during pandemic

A Hotel Chocolat store

Hotel Chocolat boss calls on landlords to change ‘adversarial’ rents system

AO's website

AO World hails record festive sales but cost warning weighs on shares

Tourists on a yacht as they pass a traditional dhow (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

Dubai staying open despite a surge in coronavirus cases

Outside the Birmingham bullring

Landlord Hammerson reveals just 41% of rents collected

Cars stand at the factory area during a press tour at the plant of the German manufacturer Volkswagen AG ,VW, in Zwickau, Germany (Jens Meyer/AP)

European car sales plunge as pandemic provokes crisis