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Rows of houses

Average UK house price hits record high after £15,000 leap during lockdowns

London Stock Exchange

City diary for week starting Monday April 12

Ramsdens

Travel money firm Ramsdens expects small loss as it hopes for return to holidays

Outdoor dining

Loungers set for phased reopening as it signs new deal with lenders

Sports Direct

Sports Direct owner warns over £200 million Covid-19 hit

Working from home

Fewer than one in seven managers expect full office return by end of year – poll

Finance

One in three plan to leave lockdown savings untouched – survey

Rishi Sunak and David Cameron

Sunak confirms Cameron’s lobbying activities over Greensill Capital

London’s top flight closed 56.9 points, or 0.83%, higher at 6,942.22 on Thursday.

FTSE 100 hits highest level since start of pandemic

Someone using a laptop

Experian adding credit unions to loan comparison services

A Tui plane

IT glitch causes ‘serious incident’ on Tui flight

Office workers

Changing world of work could spell the end of open-plan offices – report

A woman using Morrisons paper bags for her shopping

Morrisons to stop selling plastic carrier bags in shops

A woman with coins in her hand

Women on tiny pensions could be due ‘lottery-winning sums’ in back payments

Co-op changes

Co-op repays furlough support but holds onto £66m of business rates relief

A roofer works on a new house building project

Construction sector has best month since 2014 as paused projects restart

The new office is set to open in 2025

JLL signs up for massive new London headquarters in deal with British Land

People look at new cars

Car dealership Lookers issues second profits upgrade in two months