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Oxford Street Stores Stock

JD Sports to sell Footaslyum in cut-price £37.5m deal after CMA ruling

Heineken cardboard beer grips

Heineken boosted by higher beer sales despite raising prices

CMA findings

JD Sports offloads Footasylum for £37.5m

Manufacturing

Manufacturing growth lowest for two years as output stalls

HSBC offices

HSBC makes dividend pledge amid break-up pressure

BT Tower as seen from Primrose Hill, London (Jonathan Brady/PA)

BT and Openreach workers staging second pay strike

A petrol pump

Fuel tax cut for UK drivers among lowest in Europe – RAC

People looking in an estate agent's window

28% of ‘London leavers’ purchasing homes are first-time buyers, analysis finds

A child's toys on a cot

42% of families with children at home ‘regularly feel stressed about finances’

A woman using a mobile phone

Squeezed households paying loyalty penalty for key services, charity warns

A worker pushing a pallet truck among boxes at a distribution centre

Demand for warehouses continues to surge despite pressure on consumers

A piggy bank being held

New type of pension scheme launches in Britain

A person with some cash

Cost-of-living crisis ‘increasing regional inequalities’

Man in fresh produce aisle

Waitrose to scrap best before dates on hundreds of products

Avanti West Coast train at Paddington station

Aslef denies strike plans as Avanti West Coast warns of more cancellations

Canterbury stock

Firms ‘treading water’ as rising prices slows business

Rail strikes

Train drivers’ strike ‘solidly supported’ as bitter dispute continues

Southeastern trains in sidings near Ashford railway station in Kent as members of the drivers union Aslef at seven train operators walk out for 24 hours over pay (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Train drivers’ strike brings fresh misery to rail passengers