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John Lewis's Winter Sale on a laptop

Shoppers expected to stay at home but spend more in end-of-year sales

Two people take a selfie in front of the London skyline

Surge in ‘London leavers’ snapping up properties outside the capital in 2021

Kwasi Kwarteng speaks while gesturing

Business Secretary to hold ’emergency’ meetings with energy sector executives

Christmas 2021

Christmas Eve footfall slows in UK city centres

Christmas travel

Millions embark on last-minute Christmas getaway

City of London

FTSE hits pandemic high before festive rally fizzles out

A British Airways plane

Thousands of holidays axed over Omicron restrictions

Selfridges sale

Selfridges sold to Thai and Austrian billionaires in £4bn deal

HMS Prince of Wales leaves Rosyth

Babcock sells power business to M Group Services in £50m deal

A tube of E45 hand cream

Reckitt to sell E45 skincare brand for £200m

Photo of Selfridges department store on Oxford Street in London.

Selfridges sold to Central Group and Signa Holding

Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds online banking customers report issues logging in

People enjoying a night out in Soho, in London’s West End

Enforced closures ‘could back nightclubs into corner with no chance of survival’

A view of the Bank of England in the City of London

FTSE 100 lifts to six-week high as rebound continues

A London Underground sign against the night sky

Night Tube strikes to continue until summer 2022

Slow traffic on the M6

Bumpy start to first Christmas getaway in two years

A woman using a mobile phone

Christmas shoppers warned of scam parcel delivery texts

People pass a largely empty restaurant in central London

UK diner numbers slump to weakest level since May