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Morrisons bananas

Morrisons to ban plastic packaging on all bananas

Aldi plans

Aldi to trial first checkout-free supermarket

Mary Berry

Staff and driver shortages to remain ‘persistent challenges’, says cake maker

An offshore wind farm

SSE says ‘there has been no decision’ to split up business

Boris Johnson, accompanied by Dame Barbara Janet Woodward walks across the tarmac of New York’s JFK airport

Boris Johnson: We will have to do everything we can to stop energy firms failing

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng

Kwarteng in fresh crisis talks with energy suppliers as gas prices surge

A view of houses

Average asking price hits new high of £338,462

A view of homes

52% of new mortgages due to end after homeowners reach 65th birthday

An elderly woman holding coins

One in five female pensioners living in poverty, says Age UK

People relax on deckchairs

Nearly half of workers ‘do not know how to plan for their retirement’

Climate crisis demonstration

Two thirds of businesses have no plan for sustainability

lanet Unpackaged Essentials

Efforts to reduce plastic grocery packaging harmed by Covid

Workers in factory

National Insurance rise could hit investment, business body warns

London skyline

UK tech sector raised record-breaking £13.5bn in first half of 2021

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng

Kwarteng vows energy supplies will be maintained as gas prices surge

Bank of England

Bank set to sit tight on rates despite record rise in inflation

An elderly woman holding coins

Getting pension freedoms wrong ‘could cost you your benefits’

London skyline

FTSE 100 falls below 7,000 for first time since July