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Patisserie Valerie auditors handed £2.3m fines over failures

Lorry driver shortage

Educate consumers about their effect on supply chains, expert says

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Number of homes snapped up by buyers this year ‘will be highest since 2007’

London city skyline

Businesses ask for more time to repay Covid loans, data shows

Labour Party Conference 2021

Labour promises to scrap business rates in ‘biggest overhaul in a generation’

Cars queue for fuel at an Asda petrol station in south London amid continued panic buying

Competition law suspended as ministers step in to battle petrol panic buying

A Shell petrol station in Bracknell, Berkshire was one of thousands in the UK to have run out of fuel on Sunday

Thousands of petrol stations out of fuel as HGV driver visa plan criticised

Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer rules out nationalising Big Six energy firms

Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy to take on Avro customers after collapse

Cars queue for fuel at an Asda petrol station in south London

Shapps defends foreign HGV driver plan and blames haulage group for fuel queues

European lorries parked in Dover, Kent

European drivers ‘won’t move to UK for just three months’

Cars queue for petrol

Foreign HGV driver visa plan ‘insufficient’ to fix Christmas supply chain issues

Next store

Next to post sales jump as investors seek update on trading momentum

Ed Miliband

Labour to set out 10-year plan for ‘green Britain’

Motorists queue at an Esso petrol station

Temporary visa scheme expected in plan to ease supply issues up to Christmas

Money stock

Food delivery firm’s collapse hastened by driver shortage – administrator

Lorry driver shortage

Downing Street considering temporary measures to ease HGV driver shortage

Gas ring

Energy firm boss says crisis is ‘bringing industry flaws to the surface’