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A plane

Plan to cut flight tax criticised by public transport and environmental groups

Zara

Zara owner Inditex sees profits slide 70% after store closures

Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty hands back furlough cash as profits tumble

Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely from Diversity in front of a Lego Argos van with Super Mario branding

Lego cheers fastest growth in five years amid pandemic sales boost

A fast food worker fills a Just Eat takeaway bag

Just Eat serves up soaring annual sales and eyes further growth in 2021

Legal and General

Profits dip at Legal & General as Covid hits life insurance and housebuilding

Lidl has rejected the Chancellor’s extended business rates holiday (Steve Parsons/PA)

Lidl says it will not claim extended business rates support

A closed Wagamama in Greenwich

Wagamama owner The Restaurant Group to raise £175m after Covid impact

A man using a laptop

Money mule recruiters using fake online job adverts to target young adults

Houses in London

One mortgage for life: Home loans lasting 40 years to be launched

A soft plastics collection point in a Tesco store

Tesco rolls out recycling points for bread bags, crisp packets and pet pouches

Impersonation scams account for the bulk of losses that victims have been reporting during the coronavirus crisis, according to TSB's analysis of its customer data

Bank reveals the scams causing biggest total customer losses during pandemic

Many over-55s who are approaching retirement risk exhausting their pension savings early, Standard Life suggests (Anthony Devlin/PA)

Many over-55s could be heading for retirement income shortfall, says survey

Coronavirus

Calls for more repayment support as three times more businesses slide into debt

Banking giant HSBC has unveiled a record £15 billion lending fund to support small business across the UK to help spur on recovery from the pandemic (Tim Ockenden/PA)

HSBC launches record £15bn fund to help small firms recover from crisis

Shares in London's top companies rose for the second day in a row

FTSE 100 lags behind international peers as mining stocks weigh

A cruse liner

UK cruises could resume in May – minister

Former chancellor George Osborne

Osborne warning to Sunak over corporation tax hike