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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

A Tesco Extra petrol station

Some Tesco customers’ fuel station payments taken months late

Thousands of lorries were backed up in Kent in the days before Christmas

Plan to fast track empty supermarket lorries during Kent disruption

A mother holds the feet of a new baby

Three-quarters of mothers ‘have had to plug income gaps due to maternity leave’

Dunelm Mill

Dunelm enjoys Christmas sales boost despite store closures

Card Factory shop in Newport, Isle of Wight

Card Factory warns it is likely to breach loan terms after pandemic impact

Associated British Foods owns Primark

Primark owner warns of potential £1.1bn in lost sales from lockdowns

A Santander bank sign

Santander slashing rate on flagship 123 current accounts again

A Premier Inn sign

Premier Inn owner Whitbread confirms 1,500 jobs axed amid sales plunge