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Postal strike

Fresh strikes in Royal Mail dispute over pay and conditions

Gas hob cooker flame alight

Energy leaders write to PM urging action on legislation

FTSE 100 dips as investors brace for costly energy bills freeze

FTSE 100 dips as investors brace for costly energy bills freeze

Cineworld cinema

Cineworld files for US bankruptcy but cinemas to stay open

Money stock

Pound drops to lowest level against dollar since 1985

The Financial and Professional Services Dinner

Governor welcomes Bank remit review, as he sets weekly meetings with Chancellor

The Cuadrilla fracking site in Preston New Road, Lancashire

Downing Street hints fracking ban could be lifted in energy bills package

A pound coin on top of 'Inflation' in a dictionary

Energy bills support plan ‘set to help rein in rampant inflation’

Octopus Energy

Energy firm visits customers’ homes to advise on cutting bills

Andrew Bailey

Bank of England chief welcomes review of remit before meeting new Chancellor

Beavertown cans

Heineken snaps up control of craft brewery Beavertown

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

Chancellor warns banks of higher government borrowing to ease energy crisis

Insolvencies

Tens of thousands of firms at risk of failure over spiralling energy bills

A pregnant woman and her husband

Parents ‘particularly likely to have made cutbacks amid rising living costs’

Postal strike

Royal Mail workers to stage fresh strikes over pay

London skyline

M&C Saatchi profits slip as it books £8.4m costs fighting takeover

Housing Construction – Stock

Barratt posts record profits but adds to signs of cooling housing market

Halfords stock

Cost-of-living crisis creating risk to road safety, warns Halfords boss