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Google

UK and EU watchdogs launch competition probes into Google and Meta over ads

A TransPennine train crosses Ribblehead Viaduct in North Yorkshire (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Rail strikes continue in disputes over pay and rosters

People head to work

Economy erased Omicron hit in January ahead of Russia’s war

Payment card and laptop

More than half of young people ‘have been targeted by fraudsters’

Passengers at Heathrow Airport

Heathrow passenger numbers remain nearly 50% down on pre-virus levels

Goods arrive in UK

Russian goods flooded UK at unprecedented rates in month before war

Age UK research

Energy cost rise to leave quarter of older households in ‘fuel stress’ – charity

Courier firm Hermes is changing its name to Evri

Hermes to change its name and invest millions in couriers’ pensions

New stamp designs

Charles praises letter writing as he meets young stamp design winners

Pound coins and banknotes

‘Leaseholders should not pay a penny to rectify faults not of their doing’

London stock

Markets slip back as commodity prices rebound

M&S chief executive Steve Rowe (M&S/PA)

Steve Rowe: The M&S boss departing after almost 40 years at the retail giant

Ben van Beurden

Shell boss pockets £1m pay rise

Boris Johnson visit to Merseyside

Government’s new shipbuilding vision criticised by unions

A petrol pump

Average price of petrol nears £1.60 per litre

A Marks & Spencer store

M&S boss to quit after six years in top job

Roman Abramovich

What the sanctions on Roman Abramovich and six other Russian oligarchs entail

Euro coins and notes

Europe’s central bank to speed up end to economic stimulus