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Dame Rosemary Squire

Theatre chief calls on Government to help ‘already fragile industry’

Recycling stock

CMA continues probe into waste merger which could hike bills

Budget 2021

Government borrowing falls in November on end of furlough

An online internet gambling site

Hundreds of thousands more over-65s gambling online than before pandemic

The City of London

FTSE 100 starts week before Christmas in the cold

United biscuits sale

Biscuit prices likely to rise, warns Jaffa Cake maker McVitie’s

Money stock

Home insurance premiums slide due to pandemic and comparison sites

A customer in a Pret A Manger store

Pret told to review drink subscription adverts after complaints

Old Compton Street

Hospitality chiefs plead for urgent support ‘in the next 24 hours’

Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto selects new chairman after Juukan Gorge scandal

Rolls-Royce

Qatar invests £85m in Rolls-Royce’s small nuclear reactor arm

Standard Chartered building

Standard Chartered fined £46.5m by Bank of England for misreporting liquidity

Sir Dave Lewis

Ex-Tesco chief Sir Dave Lewis to head up £45bn GSK consumer spin-off

Choppaluna food

Salad bar chain Choppaluna to open 10 sites next year in growth plan

Lego

All I want for Christmas – children’s letters to Santa reveal most-coveted toys

Restaurant workers

TUC calls for increase in statutory sick pay

Coronavirus

London outshines troubled global markets

Rail tickets

Train passengers face largest fares rise in nine years