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Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng met with energy firms and the regulator on Monday

Kwarteng and energy firms agree need to protect customers from gas price hike

Boxing Day sales

Numbers of Boxing Day shoppers 41% below pre-pandemic levels, figures show

Sir Richard Branson

Vaccines are the route to recovery, not lockdowns, says Branson

ScotRail train

Christmas travel hit by staff shortages, planned closures and industrial action

Boxing Day sales

London’s West End sees in-person Boxing Day shopping fall 44% from 2019

A KFC sign

Brands must adapt to ‘serious threat’ of being called out by ‘woke’ generation

Faded signage on a closed bank

Nearly half of banks’ branches ‘have been lost since 2015 or are set to shut’

A generic stock image of a gas ring on a home cooker in London

Government told to ‘show more urgency’ in fighting rising energy prices

England fans hold up a banner asking for Jack Grealish’s shirt

From Bridgerton wisteria to Squid Game boiler suits: What we bought in 2021

A Burger King sign

Burger King snaps up 12 restaurants from franchisees

Shoppers stand in a queue for the doors to open for the start of the Boxing Day sales at Selfridges department store on Oxford Street (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Omicron has sent Boxing Day shoppers online, retail experts say

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey

Households to pay £100m more for energy over Christmas and New Year – Lib Dems

Coronavirus – Wed Oct 6, 2021

Furlough proves big success, but lessons learned for future use

Estate agents' signs

Two-thirds of people ‘loved their home at first sight’, survey finds

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