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The Gym Group

The Gym Group set to raise prices to offset higher costs

A computer 'at risk' warning screen

Avast cybersecurity merger on hold amid competition warning

Fever-Tree drinks

Fever-Tree warns over hit to 2022 as costs soar amid Ukraine conflict

Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for a media interview at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi

Boris Johnson heads to Saudi Arabia as he seeks to wean West off Putin’s oil

Marketing call fines

‘Predatory’ firms fined over 750,000 marketing calls to elderly and vulnerable

Cyber crime

Facebook parent company Meta joins UK anti-scams initiative

A homeowner turns down the temperature of a gas boiler

Rapid moves to cut energy demand ‘will curb bills and Russian gas imports’

Intel

Intel unveils £67bn chipmaking expansion plan for Europe

Wages

Workers suffer steepest decline in real wages for over eight years

James Bond

EU regulators clear Amazon’s £6.48bn purchase of MGM

Pound coins and banknotes

‘HMRC denied banks access to data that could have prevented Covid loans fraud’

London

Natural resource companies continue to weigh on FTSE

HSBC branch closures

HSBC to close 69 more bank branches

Wine bottles

Virgin Wines impacted by ‘significant’ increases in labour and energy costs

Ed Miliband

Government ‘all over the place’ on the future of fracking, MPs hear

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Sunak under pressure from Tory and opposition MPs to deal with cost of living

A woman using a laptop

61% annual increase in people taking out debt relief orders in February

An HSBC bank sign

Which HSBC branches are set to close?