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Models of houses on coins

Choice of mortgage deals shrinks at fastest pace since May 2020

An energy bill next to a domestic gas ring

Squeeze on households could tighten as gas prices soar 70% to record high

Greg Barker

Former energy minister leaves board of Russian metals giant as exodus continues

Fossil fuels

Oil price at highest since 2008 as Europe and US mull ban on Russian imports

Coins and notes

Amigo could restart lending within year as court prepares to rule on proposals

Estate agent signs

Average UK house price ‘soars by 10.8% annually to hit record high of £278,123’

Tube strike

UK employment recovers to pre-pandemic levels for first time, says research

Oil giant Shell has been criticised by Ukraine's foreign minister for making a purchase from Russia this week despite the invasion (Anna Gowthorpe/PA)

Doesn’t Russian oil smell of Ukrainian blood, Kyiv minister asks Shell

A pair of wedding rings

Fair distribution of pension wealth ‘must not be overlooked during divorces’

Russia Ukraine War Oligarchs

British businessman’s accounts frozen over suspected links to Russian oligarch

The sun rises over oil tankers (Steve Parsons/PA)

Unison calls for action on Russian ships sanctions

Sainsbury’s store

Chicken kiev renamed kyiv by Sainsbury’s after Russia’s attack on Ukraine

Russia Ukraine War

Ukraine escalation causes FTSE’s worst day for a week

Stock prices fall

Shares drop as burning Ukrainian nuclear plant spooks traders across Europe

A woman counting coins

86% of people do not want retirement savings funding Russia, say campaigners

London Mayor Sadiq Khan

Tube strike union letting Government ‘off the hook’, claims Sadiq Khan

A house being built

Investors look towards margins as housebuilder Berkeley set to update market

First and second class stamps

First class stamps to increase by 10p to 95p from April