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The closed Jaeger store on the King’s Road, Chelsea.

Jaeger to axe 233 staff and permanently shut all shops despite M&S deal

Gym equipment

Gym Group sales almost halve in 2020 after virus forces closures

Supreme Court

Supreme Court ruling ‘decisively removes roadblocks for policyholders’ – FCA

Former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz (Ted S. Warren/AP)

Chinese president asks former Starbucks boss to help repair US relations

Supreme Court

Supreme Court ‘substantially allows’ FCA appeal on coronavirus insurance claims

Westminster Magistrates’ Court

Petrofac shares slip as former executive pleads guilty to bribery charges

Coronavirus lockdown

UK heads towards double-dip recession as GDP falls 2.6%

BAT

UK fraud office closes British American Tobacco corruption probe

A Lidl sign outside a store

Cost a Lidl less: Lidl narrowly beats Aldi to be named cheapest supermarket 2020

Closed shop

London lags behind for job vacancies, study suggests

Pubs

Pubs, restaurants and bars suffer ‘dreadful’ Christmas as sales dive 72%

Joe Biden

Markets rise with eyes on Joe Biden’s economic plans

A busy motorway

AA shareholders approve deal to sell breakdown service for £2.8bn

Heathrow Express

Security company wrote ‘Allahu Akbar’ on fake bomb in Heathrow exercise

Tui shop

Grey pound holiday bookings surge as vaccines rolled out

Google

Google assures takeover of Fitbit ‘not about data’ as £1.5bn deal finalised

Iceland jobs

Iceland to create 3,500 temporary jobs to cope with lockdown surge

Workers building new houses

Home building in England bounced back between July and September, figures show