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2025 annual set coins

Queen Mother and Red Arrows feature on new Royal Mint coin designs for 2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during her visit to the Leeds (PA)

Reeves faces spending wrangles and a search for growth in 2025

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Monzo launches first automated 1p savings challenge for 2025

A shopper on Oxford Street, London

Drop in Boxing Day footfall ‘signals return to declining pre-pandemic levels’

Shoppers enter Selfridges in London's Oxford Street as the department store opens its doors for the Boxing Day sale

Shoppers predicted to spend average of £236 each in Boxing Day sales

Shoppers on Oxford Street, London

Drop in Boxing Day shopper footfall ‘could be influenced by cost-of-living crisis’

From mobile phone mega mergers to foreign takeovers of historic British institutions, 2024 has seen a raft of mammoth deals in the corporate sector (PA)

Royal Mail takeover and Carlsberg’s swoop on Britvic in year of mega deals

The skyline of the City of London

Proportion of Londoners buying homes outside capital drops – study

A plane against an orange sky

Nearly a quarter of people ‘have already booked overseas holidays for 2025’

Last-minute shoppers on Christmas Eve

Shoppers cheer retailers with last-minute spree

Stock prices rise

London stocks move higher before Christmas despite weaker housebuilders

Shoppers in the Bullring shopping centre

Peak Christmas high street footfall down 5.3% – survey

A household tap running

Sewage scandals and bill increases mark year of woe for water industry

Growth in UK construction sector slows amid housebuilding decline

Housebuilder Vistry takes another £50m profit hit amid delays

A Christmas tree

Broken oven, lost dentures and ruined raclette among Christmas Day calamities

A retiree couple living comfortably and hosting guests this Christmas could potentially have around £260 to splash out on food, according to calculations by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Associati

Research reveals size of ‘Christmas hamper’ for retirees on different incomes

The early morning sun reflects on the financial buildings of Canary Wharf in east London

FTSE 100 edges higher despite UK economy stalling in third quarter

A Cadbury wrapper displaying the royal warrant

Cadbury ‘disappointed’ after being stripped of royal warrant