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Countrywide reveals new Alchemy plans as it rejects bid from rival

An electric vehicle charging point

Watchdog probes electric vehicle-charging

Loungers

Lounges and Cosy Club boss calls new tiering ‘bewildering and unfair’

Customers in a socially distance queue outside Tesco

Tesco hands back £585m from business rates holiday

Shop prices

Retailers ramp up festive discounting amid ‘extremely challenging year’

Online shopping

Quarter of online shoppers ‘more concerned about potential bargains than scams’

A manufacturing plant in Luton

Luton is top first-time buyer hotspot, study finds

Christmas display at shop

Thousands of non-essential stores to reopen in England

JD Sports

Competition watchdog to appeal against tribunal over JD Sports’ Footasylum deal

Boris Johnson

Johnson announces £1,000 for pubs in effort to win over rebels to his tiers plan

South Korea Financial Markets

Global markets bounce higher as economists predict vaccine reprieve

Closed pubs and restaurants in Shoreditch, east London

PM’s £1,000 for pubs no match for ‘Armageddon’ facing trade

Morrisons

Morrisons boss vows to slash pension allowance to match shop workers

Debenhams faces liquidation

Job losses: Major cuts since the start of the pandemic

Fishing boats moored in Whitby Harbour

Fight over fish still rages as Brexit talks ‘go to the wire’

Which? travel firms cyberattacks report

EasyJet toughens hand luggage rules to ‘improve boarding and punctuality’

High street shoppers

Britain at risk of ‘serious’ economic hit from no-deal Brexit, warns OECD

People posting letters

Royal Mail raising price of 1st class stamp to 85p