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Houses under construction

Vistry to merge housebuilding arm with affordable homes division

Basic goods are being tagged or locked away as some retailers turn to facial recognition amid widespread shoplifting fears

Everyday goods like butter and coffee locked away in secure cases in stores as shoplifting epidemic bites

Frankie & Benny’s restaurant

TRG to sell Frankie and Benny’s and Chiquito to rival Big Table

Port of Felixstowe

Maritime sector calls for £2bn to decarbonise ‘world-leading’ industry

Dozens of Wilko shops are shutting

Full list of 52 Wilko shops shutting this week - is your local store affected?

Bill workplace rights

TUC to accuse Government of having ‘broken Britain’

RBS branch

Growth in private sector halted last month, report shows

Shoppers

Retailers warn Chancellor against £400m business rates hike

Models of houses on coins

Rents ‘could rise four times as fast as house prices across the years ahead’

The High Pay Centre research

Government urged to back mandatory reporting over ethnicity pay gap

Prayer

Unions to involve faith groups in ‘shared mission’

Rishi Sunak

PM says closing railway ticket offices is ‘right thing for British public’

Tube strike

Interest rates rise making businesses more cautious about hiring, report says

Paul Nowak

TUC to report Government to UN workers’ rights watchdog over new strikes law

UCU

Staff to strike at Scottish university over marking boycott pay deductions

A person wearing flip flops on a beach

Cost-of-living crisis blamed for consumers cutting summer holidays short

Mick Lynch

Unions criticise Government’s ‘attack on right to strike’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media during the G20 summit in New Delhi, India

Net zero should not be about ‘hairshirt’ policies, says Sunak