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Coronavirus test samples

Test providers could be ‘overwhelmed’ when foreign holidays resume

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Home cooking boom in lockdowns buoys Unilever sales

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Current account switching levels dipped in first three months of 2021

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Facebook stock jumps on the back of soaring quarterly ad revenue

Pound coins and banknotes

Rethink on welfare state needed after pandemic – think tank

Sir Tom Hunter

Scottish entrepreneurs pledge £1m to business funding competition

Ride-sharing app Uber has revealed plans to sign up another 20,000 drivers as demand begins to ramp up following the reopening of outdoor dining (Laura Dale/PA)

Uber signing up another 20,000 drivers as lockdown begins to ease

Cars

First increase in car production after 18 months of decline, figures show

Nestle factory

Nestle planning hundreds of job cuts and closure of UK factory

David Cameron

Greensill collapse could cost taxpayer up to £5bn – Lord Myners

WH Smith now makes two-thirds of its profits from travel stores (WH Smith / PA)

WH Smith set to open 100 new travel shops after £325m cash boost

Budget 2021

Investors give London Stock Exchange a bloody nose over boss’s pay rise

Lloyds Banking Group profits

Bank and oil cheer lifts FTSE 100

Boeing planes

Boeing posts loss in first quarter as it takes hit on Air Force One work

KFC restaurant

Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell sales bounce back as restrictions ease

CES 2021

CES: Tech show to return to Las Vegas in 2022, organisers say

Persimmon profits

Sales and average prices jump at Persimmon as homebuilder shrugs off pandemic

GSK profits

Global focus on Covid vaccine dents performance at GSK