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A high street

Shopper footfall recovery slows as households face ‘severe economic situation’

Energy prices

Tampering with energy meters ‘can create ticking time bomb’

Euston station during the rail strike in London

Fresh travel misery for rail passengers

BP

Oil majors save FTSE from heavier losses after Opec moves to slash production

Brittany Ferries Salamanca in Portsmouth

Ferry company calls for ‘refocused’ attention on pay and conditions

Opec

Opec+ makes big oil cut to boost prices

Conservative Party Conference 2022

Truss promises to make ‘hard choices’ in search for economic growth

Estate agents' boards outside a row of houses

Average two-year fixed-rate mortgage hits 6% for first time since 2008

Pound weakens and govt borrowing costs rise again after Truss speech

Pound weakens and government borrowing costs rise again after Truss speech

Traffic congestion in Manchester

Northern cities hit by increase in traffic jams due to rail strikes

London City Stock

Businesses ‘delay plans to go public amid market turmoil’

BT logo

999 call handlers to join BT and Openreach strike over pay

Prime Minister Liz Truss delivers her keynote speech at the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham

Truss heckled as she delivers first conference speech as Tory leader

Cars

Vertu Motors says new car prices still spiking as it posts £2bn revenues

A woman with her head in her hands

Householders warned about ‘significant’ increase in energy scams

New cars at the port of Southampton

New car market grows for second month in a row

A Tesco sign

Tesco warns over full-year trading pressures as shoppers ‘watch every penny’

Ben van Beurden said at an energy summit that "probably ... government's need to tax people in this room" to pay for intervention to protect the poorest in society from high energy costs.

Shell boss calls on government to introduce windfall tax on energy companies to help poor