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David Haetzman outside his Firebrick Brasserie

Restaurant owner ‘heartbroken’ as high costs force family business to close

Mick Lynch

Mick Lynch: Transport for London funding deal could lead to further strikes

Cake Box cakes

Cake Box warns cost rises and lower sales to drag on profits

John Lewis store

John Lewis to give free meals to staff as it seeks 10,000 Christmas workers

Rachel Reeves

Labour ‘not at all confident’ of cost-of-living teamwork with new prime minister

Empty platforms at London King's Cross station

Rail union announces new strike date

A domestic gas ring

Price cap experts cut forecasts as wholesale costs fall, but warn worse to come

Scottish money

Scotland’s GDP fell by 0.8% in June, figures show

A Co-op worker

Co-op strikes £600m deal to sell petrol stations to Asda to help boost finances

A man working from home

Working from home could add £131 a month to energy bills

Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves a police vehicle after watching a drugs-related raid by Metropolitan Police officers

Johnson: UK has financial strength to get through cost-of-living crisis

A striking worker

Round-up of strikes and potential industrial action affecting the UK

Models of houses on piles of coins and banknotes

Older homeowners ‘could potentially unlock £129,000 on average by downsizing’

A Shoe Zone store

Back-to-school demand boosts Shoe Zone

Co-op store sign

Co-op offloads petrol forecourt business to Asda in £600m deal

Royal Mail vans parked at a depot

Royal Mail workers stage second strike in pay row

Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury’s to invest £65m into prices next month to offset inflation pressure

Postal strike signage

Postal workers strike for second day in fight for improved pay