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Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy pays out more than £1m to customers in energy saving scheme

Heinz products are going up in price

Heinz product 'doubles in price over the course of a year' as cost of 500 items goes up

Britishvolt administration

Ministers will look ‘seriously’ at any credible Britishvolt takeover bids

A British one pound coin, a euro coin and a US one dollar bill

UN forecasts fall in global economic growth to 1.9%

Rishi Sunak at PMQs

Sunak defends handling of Zahawi row as pressure on Tory chairman mounts

London stock

FTSE continues dampened week as it retreats from recent four-year highs

Coronavirus in NI

Thousands of health workers to strike in Northern Ireland

Industrial strike

Rail strikes set to cause fresh travel disruption

London landmarks

Royal Opera House cuts ties with long-term sponsor BP

Teachers on strike in Edinburgh

Teachers mark halfway point in strike action with Burns-style poetry recital

Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin

Treasury review after claims it helped sanctioned Russian to sue journalist

Models of people on coins

Poorest fifth of households see 3.8% fall in disposable income

Cost of living crisis

Nearly 20% of energy support vouchers expire without being redeemed – study

Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch abandons proposed tie-up between Fox and News Corp

Industrial strike

Amazon workers walk out in UK first for company’s staff in pay dispute

Tim Martin, Wetherspoon's chairman

People in the habit of drinking at home post-Covid, Wetherspoon’s boss says

Britishvolt factory site

Australian start-up launches late rescue move for collapsed Britishvolt

A woman using a mobile phone

Average 27-minute wait on HMRC self-assessment helpline in January