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Hovis bought by private equity

Bakery brand Hovis sold to UK private equity firm Endless

Jobs have been lost in the theatre industry

Furlough scheme extension ‘came too late for some in the culture sector’

Dominic Chappell

Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell jailed over almost £600,000 in unpaid taxes

Bentley Motors will stop making conventionally-fuelled cars in the next six years, the luxury brand has announced (Steve Parsons/PA)

Bentley to stop selling non-electric cars by 2026

The Walney Extension

Scottish Power outlines new £10bn investment in green energy

Caterpillar expanding parts plant

Up to 700 manufacturing jobs to go in Northern Ireland

Election 2020 Biden

Traders boosted by Biden gains and extra Bank of England cash

Sainsbury’s job loses

Job losses: Major cuts since the start of the pandemic

Dominic Chappell

Former BHS owner Dominic Chappell found guilty of tax evasion

Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce axing nearly 1,400 jobs under major overhaul

Bank of England

Bank of England forecasts hit to economy in early 2021 as Brexit transition ends

Shoppers in Bath

Furlough scheme extension: How will it work and what will it cost?

Canary Wharf

Banks halt £1.1bn in bounce-back loan fraud

Boohoo models

Boohoo, Nike and H&M deny Uighur forced labour in supply chains

Rishi Sunak

Sunak extends jobs furlough scheme to the end of March

Rishi Sunak

Businesses welcome furlough extension but urge Treasury to help self-employed

Woman at laptop

£8m losses reported due to fake PayPal emails

Demand for new cars fell by 1.6% last month compared with October 2019, new figures show (Gareth Fuller/PA)

New car market down 1.6% last month