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Most and least affordable university cities revealed

Scottish money

Recruitment up in Scotland but businesses struggling to find staff, report finds

Amazon stock

Amazon pushes back office return date to January 2022

Latitude Festival 2021 – Southwold

Live events to be covered by Government-backed £750m insurance scheme

Boris Johnson visit to Scotland

Johnson urges ‘patience’ over travel but is told he needs to move quicker

Eurostar train

Spike in demand for foreign trips after travel restrictions eased

Inflation

FTSE breaks winning streak as iron prices weigh on miners

Bank of England

Bank warns inflation could soar to 10-year high, but keeps rates on hold

Tablets

Drugs giants accused of charging NHS ‘unfairly high’ prices

The Bank of England

Bank keeps interest rates on hold in spite of inflation worries

New cars

Car industry records weakest July since 1998 as pingdemic hits sales

Birmingham Bullring

Hammerson bosses to transform empty retail space into hotels, offices and homes

Steel crisis

Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG settles disputes with Tata Steel and Rio Tinto

Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce returns to profit, but warns over international travel recovery

A passenger with a suitcase at an airport

Shapps: Holidaymakers can travel abroad ‘without looking over their shoulders’

Houses

60% of people who moved in with family during pandemic are still there – survey

Building work

Growth slows for construction firms amid pressure over supplies

Mike Ashley

Mike Ashley confirms plan to step down as boss of Sports Direct’s parent company