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Dunelm

Dunelm gives shareholders £132m payout from bumper year

Lorries in queue on road

Selco launches lorry driver training academy to help ease national shortage

A B&M sign

B&M ups profit outlook due to less discounting

Halfords outlet

Halfords cycling sales hit by global bike shortage

Medical equipment

Smiths Group backs higher US bid for medical arm

A Morrisons sign

Morrisons poised for takeover auction

Rental market

Rents outside London ‘rising at fastest pace in over a decade’

Dice on a laptop keyboard

Young investors ‘falling out of love with newer assets such as cryptocurrency’

Amazon logo

Amazon paid £492m in UK taxes last year amid online shopping boom

An NHS hospital ward

What are the Government’s NHS and social care plans and how will they affect me?

House building

Builders dent FTSE after house price boom slows

Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey

Government breaks manifesto commitment to pensioners

A piggy bank

What is the triple lock and why has it been temporarily shelved?

Openreach

Openreach waives superfast broadband connection fees for low-income households

Models of people on coins

Social care reforms ‘to push taxes to highest-ever sustained share of economy’

Model figures standing on coins

What impact will the social care reforms have on your payslip?

An elderly man

State pension triple lock is temporarily shelved for one year

A Halifax branch

£32m of fraud prevented by bank branch staff and police in first half of 2021