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High street shopping

Retailers hope restriction-free Easter and warm weather will boost sector

London skyline

Hays sees workers command pay rises of up to 25% in booming jobs market

Elon Musk

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for more than £30bn

Money

Lenders expect rise in loan defaults amid cost-of-living crisis

Airlines amend flight disruption policies

Wizz Air to beat expectations despite Omicron and Ukraine war

Dunelm profits

Tight supply chains force Dunelm to build up stock

Houses

Rental prices surge to new record amid demand mismatch, report finds

Property market

House listings increase for first time in a year, say surveyors

The Pride of Kent is to remain detained after failing a reinspection by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (Gareth Fuller/PA)

P&O’s Pride of Kent remains detained after additional deficiencies found

London Stock Exchange

FTSE inches to gains despite soaring inflation weighing on sentiment

Netherlands ABN AMRO Slavery

Dutch bank ABN Amro apologises for historical links to slave trade

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Airline founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou ‘deeply unimpressive witness’ – judge

Workers on board the Pride of Kent at the Port of Dover

Detained P&O Ferries boat Pride of Kent reinspected

Morrisons supermarket bread

Households ‘struggling to meet basic needs’ as bread and butter prices rise

Gamers play on a Playstation 4 during EGX 2016 at the NEC in Birmingham (Joe Giddens/PA)

Competition watchdog welcomes Sony and Nintendo subscription changes

Offshore wind farm

ScotWind leasing project moves to next phase as seabed agreements reached

Grenfell Tower inquiry

Government warns housebuilders not to miss cladding deadline

PZ Cussons

PZ Cussons boss cautions over ‘most challenging’ environment as sales rise