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Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks teams working to reconnect homes after Storm Arwen

Communities worst affected by Storm Arwen to receive £3.5m in redress payments

A Morrisons supermarket

Morrisons to complete £7bn takeover after CMA approves petrol stations sale

Lidl 'Good to Give' labels

Lidl’s ‘Good to Give’ label helps shoppers choose right products for food banks

An AO World delivery van

AO World shutting German business to focus on UK market

Poundland store

UK shoppers face worse cost-of-living hit than Europeans, says Poundland owner

A DFS store

DFS shares plunge on profits warning

An Avanti West Coast train

FirstGroup rebuffs £1.2bn takeover approach

The cigarette maker said it had invested £1 billion in its new categories unit, which includes vaping and heated tobacco, in recent months

No update on Russia exit as BAT warns of tobacco hit from Ukraine war

Damage from Storm Arwen

Power firms provided ‘unacceptable service’ to some after Storm Arwen – watchdog

The River Clyde

Bid for creation of green freeport on River Clyde to be launched

A nurse wearing PPE works on a patient in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) in St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London

UK recruiting nurses from some of the world’s most short-staffed countries – RCN

An aerial view of houses

House hunter numbers edge down as living costs and higher interest rates bite

Commuters at Euston station in London (Isabel Infantes/PA)

Big increase in four-day week jobs, study suggests

A John Lewis department store

John Lewis reveals locations for first new rental homes

Online gambling

Twice as many gaming accounts belong to customers in most deprived areas – study

Elon Musk (Brian Lawless/PA)

Twitter ‘to provide Musk with raw daily tweet data’

Car stock

EU politicians endorse ban on combustion-engine cars in 2035

Fuel prices

Fuel retailers failing to pass on duty cut could be named as pump prices soar