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The UK’s largest retailers are urging the government to scrap its waste strategy policy, or risk forcing prices up for consumers who are already facing a cost of living crisis. 

Another brighter than expected set of economic numbers out today indicate the UK has a chance of avoiding a much-tipped recession this year.

Interest rates will need to rise again to prevent inflation becoming a persistent problem in the UK, a Bank of England policymaker has warned.

The shift to electric cars has continued with combined battery-electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid electric vehicle production in January rising by almost 50 per cent compared with a year ago.

Britain’s biggest grocer Tesco has agreed to increase its workers’ wages by 7%, marking their third pay rise in just 10 months.

The first 260 job cuts have been announced by British Steel in what is feared will be the first of many more redundancies at the Scunthorpe-based steelmaker.

London Underground drivers are to strike on 15 March – budget day – in a dispute over pensions and working arrangements.

Unions have warned on the future of UK steelmaking after British Steel announced it will shut its coking ovens in Scunthorpe and cut up to 260 jobs.

A scheme to encourage UK households to upgrade their gas boilers to heat pumps and other low-carbon alternatives is failing to deliver after suffering a “disappointingly low” take-up, a parliamentary report has said.

Lloyds Banking Group has promised to pay out up to £3.6 billion to shareholders even though profits growth stalled and the bank warned of a “deteriorating” economic outlook.

A government-backed review on female entrepreneurship has pledged to create three million places for women to access business support over the next three years.

The UK will become an “innovation wasteland” if the government pushes ahead with plans to slash research and development (R&D) tax relief, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned.

“The clock is ticking” to support Britain’s farmers battered by a storm of rising costs, labour shortages, bird flu and post-Brexit changes to support payments, the union representing the sector has told ministers.

Royal Mail has restarted international parcel and letter deliveries through Post Office branches almost six weeks after it revealed it had been affected by a ransomware cyber-attack that left it battling to get its international services back up and running.