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Wilko enters administration

What happened to Wilko and when will the last shops shut?

People walking past a Wilko shop

Wilko: List of 124 stores set to close next week

A Wilko store

All Wilko shops to close with 9,100 job losses, administrators confirm

Prime minister Rishi Sunak is said to have stepped in personally to allow pubs to carry on selling takeaway pints of beer.

Last orders on takeaway pints extended for 18 months as government pledge to help British pubs

London skyline

Miners bolster FTSE 100 as European stocks make gains

The Bank of England

Bank policymaker warns pausing UK interest rate hikes could ’embed’ inflation

Jeremy Hunt

Hunt suggests India trade deal could be struck this year

Paul Nowak addresses the TUC Congress

TUC leader attacks Government over immigration

Wizz Air aircraft

Wizz Air says engine issues will reduce capacity by 10%

Wilko enters administration

All 400 Wilko stores to close by early October, says union

London skyline

DX delivery group gets £293m bid from US private equity firm HIG

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to the Sydney Russell School in Dagenham

Starmer highlights ‘common ground’ with unions ahead of TUC dinner

Shoppers in a high street

John Lewis boss calls for public inquiry into decline of UK high streets

Mini cars on the production line in Oxford

BMW gets Government funding to support £600m UK investment in electric cars

Dozens of Wilko shops are shutting across the country

Wilko to disappear from UK high streets as rescue deal collapses - full list of shops to shut from tomorrow

Wilko enters administration

Wilko: Full list of 52 shops set to shut this week

Wilko

Wilko rescue hopes fade as talks with HMV owner collapse

BMW Mini production line

BMW to manufacture next-generation electric Mini in Oxford