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Cost-of-living crisis

Shapps launches £1 billion scheme to insulate middle-income homes

Soldiers on parade

Army would step in to help NHS during winter of strikes under contingency plans

A Big Issue vendor takes a contactless card payment

Free sim cards for Big Issue vendors

Amazon warehouse

Amazon to see £29m tax hike in business rates shake-up

A view of homes in Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempstead

Homes ‘selling for 3% below asking price on average’

Electric charging

Halfords boss warns move to tax electric motors could hold back switch from fuel

Rail workers on strike

Pay deals to match inflation are unaffordable, minister warns as strikes loom

Steve Barclay

Nurses tell Health Secretary it’s ‘pay negotiations or nothing’ to avert strikes

Wind

Climate tsar Sharma delivers blow to Sunak by joining onshore wind rebellion

Empty departures board at Euston station in London

Fresh strike by train drivers to cause more travel chaos

London skyline

FTSE nears 7,500, but fails to pass muster

Tesco Extra

Cost-of-living support should be ‘more targeted’ for vulnerable – Tesco chief

Tesco has pledged support for the British egg sector after announcing it was limiting sales to customers (Joe Giddens/PA)

Tesco pledges support for British egg sector in ‘uncertain times’

Black Friday

‘Steady start’ to Black Friday despite cost pressure on shoppers

Nurses will stage walkouts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on two days in December (Victoria Jones/PA)

Details of NHS services exempt from nursing strike to be set out, says union

UCU members on strike

‘Burnt-out’ university staff continue strike action across Scotland

Elon Musk buys Twitter

Who could return to Twitter under Elon Musk’s suspension ‘amnesty’?

easyJet's full-year results

easyJet investors ‘cautiously optimistic’ in return to pre-pandemic travel