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Low-paid ‘falling behind on bills and skipping meals’ amid rising cost of living

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UK’s first 100mph battery-diesel hybrid train enters passenger service

Margate in Kent

Locations with highest and lowest house price growth over past decade revealed

Openreach

Openreach to create thousands of jobs and apprenticeships this year

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Surge in learner drivers caught without insurance linked to pandemic

Coronavirus – Fri Jan 21, 2022

Tax changes raised £250m, but heaped cost on employers, review finds

Angus Robertson

Angus Robertson describes Brexit as ‘ongoing calamity’ following EU exit report

Nicola Sturgeon

Sturgeon ‘not ideologically opposed’ to oil and gas windfall tax

The FTSE 100 closed up on Wednesday (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Travel stocks help FTSE to two-year high

Prime Minister’s Questions

Starmer accuses PM and Chancellor of ‘big scam’ over cost of living help

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Buy now, pay later will appear on credit files from summer, says TransUnion

Coins and banknotes

Four-year wait to have some financial complaints dealt with by ombudsman

Interest rates

Interest rate rises should be ‘steady handed’, says Bank’s top economist

Work on the UK's longest railway bridge ramped up this week as HS2 began producing 1,000 enormous concrete segments (Aaron Chown/PA)

HS2 ramps up work on UK’s longest railway bridge

Jo Whitfield

Co-op food chief executive steps back to help sons with exams

Amazon Fresh store

Watchdog tells Amazon to follow grocery supply rules

Homes being built

Detached new-build home registrations reach highest level since 2003

GSK financials

GSK vows ‘step change’ in growth as it presses ahead with consumer arm spin-off