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Greggs has set its sights on conquering Britain’s high streets – by opening 160 new branches and updating its prices.

Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells will hand back her CBE with immediate effect amid the fallout of the Horizon IT scandal.

Income tax revenues have leapt by more than 70 per cent since 2010 to £264 billion, illustrating the sharp rise in the tax burden overseen by successive Conservative administrations since the party came to power more than a decade ago.

Sir Richard Branson has invited Alan Bates, a key campaigner for justice for victims of the Post Office scandal, for a “well-earned” holiday to his private Caribbean island.

The EU has announced €4bn (£3.4bn) of state aid investments in new factories producing electric batteries for cars, heat pumps and solar panels as it seeks to accelerate production and the uptake of green technologies and combat cheap Chinese imports.

The American company behind a proposed huge Las Vegas-style Sphere entertainment venue in east London has withdrawn its plans.

A petition calling for the former Post Office chief executive, Paula Vennells, to lose her CBE over the Horizon scandal has attracted more than 1 million signatures.

More people than ever before were prepared to splash out several hundred thousand pounds on a new Rolls-Royce last year, despite the cost of living crisis.

Thousands of green street cabinets are set to be turned into electric car charging points to tackle the chronic shortage, BT has announced.

Two million more people will be claiming disability benefits by the end of the decade as mental health problems help to push the cost to taxpayers up by more than 50 per cent.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said that he is unsure if the government can afford further tax cuts – as a National Insurance (NI) reduction comes into force today.

Rishi Sunak has condemned the Post Office Horizon scandal as an “appalling miscarriage of justice”.

UKEF has partnered with other export credit agencies and MUFG as sole Mandated Lead Arranger to secure over €1.2 billion in financing for a sustainable railway project.

Houthi rebel disruptions reaching the Straits of Hormuz could double oil prices, Goldman Sachs has warned.

House prices have stopped falling and are rising again, according to a closely watched report from the mortgage lender Halifax.