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Workplace pensions action plan needed for next decade, says ABI

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Public sector pay rises in line with inflation ‘not feasible’ – Downing Street

Sandwiches

Supermarket sandwiches ‘still too meaty’ amid alternative protein use rise

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Packaging business DS Smith posts profit rise despite cost increases

The picket line at Shrub Hill train station in Worcestershire

Rail strike causes train chaos and surge in road traffic

Gary Neville

Striking workers ‘good people’, says Gary Neville

Boris Johnson

Johnson warns public to brace for more transport chaos in bitter rail dispute

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Travellers criticise ‘disgraceful’ taxi fares as demand surges amid rail strikes

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Mining giant Glencore pleads guilty to bribery offences

Battle of Orgreave

NHS staff could play same role as striking miners of the 1970s, says historian

A empty Alexandra Palace railway station (Yui Mok/PA)

PM urges passengers to ‘stay the course’ in the face of rail strikes

An RMT picket line in Glasgow

Labour MPs join picket lines in support of striking rail workers

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Shoppers’ annual grocery bills ‘to rise by £380’

Estate agents' boards

May house sales down around 5% on a year earlier

Rail and Tube strikes

NHS worker fears he won’t make it to Glastonbury Festival following rail strikes

British raspberries

Warm spring means bigger and sweeter raspberries at start of season

Mick Lynch

Shapps is ‘spouting nonsense’, RMT general secretary says

Travellers walking in front of a ScotRail train

Scotland’s rail network suffers major disruption as workers go on strike