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A British Gas bill and a domestic gas ring

British Gas pledges to donate 10% of profit as energy price cap expected to rise

A domestic meter

Shell Energy to pay £500,000 after overcharging thousands of price cap customers

The Astra assembly line at Vauxhall’s plant in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire

UK car production rises for third consecutive month

Recycling stock

CMA breaks up waste merger between Veolia and Suez

Fruit and veg on display at Lidl

Lidl to take ‘stunted’ fruit and vegetables to help farmers through drought

Models houses on a pile of coins and bank notes. (Joe Giddens/PA)

Fewer than one in eight homes listed for rent affordable with housing benefit

Energy costs

Government must increase energy bill discount by at least 150%, Which? warns

Comparethemarkets research

New PM should provide ‘radical’ energy support, says think tank

Energy bills

Ministers warned families will ‘fall through ice’ this winter without extra help

Ofgem

BCC calls on Government to boost Ofgem’s powers to support firms

Sunday Morning

Tory leadership candidates must offer ‘serious proposals’ as price cap rises

Technology stock

US securities regulators question Twitter about how it counts fake accounts

Bank of England

Third day of FTSE losses as interest rate hike fears weigh down on markets

Port of Felixstowe strike

Christmas shoppers face reduced choice if port strike escalates, warn experts

London skyline

France’s Schneider Electric mulls bid for FTSE 100 firm Aveva

Port of Felixstowe strike

Strike at port will escalate unless improved pay offer is made, vows union boss

Worker fills petrol pumps

No fuel imported from Russia in June as trade hits record low

Energy stock

Energy prepayment meter customers seeing up to 90% of gas top-ups going on debt