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Food sales

Retail sales decline slows after jubilee celebrations boost food stores

BT and Warner Bros Discovery deal

Watchdog clears BT Sport joint venture with Warner Bros Discovery

Azovstal

Russia stealing UK-bound steel, Ukrainian boss says

People walking on high street

Consumer confidence ‘severely depressed’ amid soaring food and fuel prices

Piles of coins

7.2m cost-of-living payments made to families on low incomes

Channel 4 facing Ofcom probe

Channel 4 sell-off under fire after best ever financial performance

Market report

FTSE struggles for headway as ECB hikes rate for first time in over 10 years

Train Stock

Union to re-ballot members on strike action after threshold missed

People stood outside an employment agency

Government changes law to help plug staffing gaps caused by strikes

Profit warnings rise

Corrupt foreigners ‘dissuaded from investing in UK due to arrests of enablers’

The Union Jack pictured behind the European Union flag in London

Brexit divorce bill could soar by £5bn, Treasury admits

Dunelm

Dunelm lifts profit outlook and names outgoing Whitbread boss as its new chair

Money stock

Two in five ATM users ‘using cash to help themselves budget’

M&S Gist 2

M&S buys logistics firm Gist as it seeks food supply chain control

Gas Hob

Centrica wins first approval to reopen UK’s biggest gas storage site

A householder looks at an energy bill

8.2 million UK households could be in fuel poverty after October, charity warns

Coronavirus

Pub giants Mitchells & Butlers and Fuller’s warn over inflation

The NS&I website

Boost for more than 1.3m savers as NS&I announces rate hikes