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Bank of England on inflation

UK interest rates set to be held at 4.75% after inflation rises again

A smartphone showing a customer's energy bill

Labour to reform energy regulator to give more protections after bills crisis

Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales (Ben Birchall/PA)

More funds to support steel workers and businesses

Post Office sign outside a branch

Government considering taking over Horizon shortfall scheme from Post Office

London skyline

FTSE inches higher despite caution after jump in UK inflation

Sign reading The Scotsman

The Scotsman owner National World agrees to £65.1m takeover

View outside the Bank of England and Royal Exchange in London

UK interest rates set to be held at 4.75% after inflation rises again

Jim McMahon speaks at the Labour Party conference

Councils get £700m funding boost under revised settlement

A green and red Eddie Stobart HGV

Lorry firm founder Eddie Stobart dies aged 95

A shopper looks at salad items in a supermarket

Where inflation accelerated in November – and where it eased

The Observer newspaper in a letterbox

New Observer website to be launched as Tortoise signs deal to buy newspaper

The proposed bill rises would begin to take effect from April next year (PA)

Households set to learn water bills to rise by at least 20% over next five years

Andrew, left, and Tristan Tate in

Police can seize more than £2m from Tate brothers over unpaid tax claims

The London skyline

Annual growth in house prices and rents has accelerated

Retailer Shoe Zone revealed it has shut stores in response to soaring wage costs following the recent Budget measures as it warned over profits once again.

Shoe Zone blames Budget costs for store closures and warns over profits

A Zizzi restaurant in Nottingham

Zizzi owner Azzurri to open more restaurants despite rising costs

A man works on the roof of a construction site

Company failures rise with more businesses in ‘perilous’ position

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband in Downing Street

Miliband: Logical to say energy bills will reduce under clean energy policies