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Sweeping new planning freedoms including the right to build extra storeys on top of London homes without the need to gain permission are to be announced today.

Hundreds of thousands of customers at the Co-op’s Food stores have been double charged for their shopping, the retailer has admitted.

Greek MPs are to vote later on whether to back PM Alexis Tsipras’s tough new proposals to secure a third bailout.

Millions of commuters faced rush-hour misery as they tried to get to and from work amid a 24-hour Tube strike that has caused travel chaos in London.

Sainsbury’s is facing legal action from four female shopfloor workers who claim they are paid less than men to do equally valuable jobs at the supermarket chain.

Sales of the Apple Watch have fallen by 90 per cent since its launch week, a company has claimed.

Microsoft has taken a $7.6 billion hit on the value of its spectacularly ill-judged acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone division — even more than the original $7.2 billion that it paid for the Finnish business barely a year ago.

Honda is to recall a further 4.5 million vehicles globally in an attempt to rectify an airbag issue which has so far claimed eight lives.

The Greek government has extended bank closures and a €60 daily limit on ATM withdrawals until Monday.

George Osborne sought to outflank Labour and soften the blow from a £12bn cut to Britain’s welfare bill when he made a big rise in the minimum wage the centrepiece of the first Conservative budget in almost two decades.

China’s benchmark stock index fell to a three-month low over concern a raft of measures to stabilise equities is failing to stop the bear-market rout as traders unwind margin bets at a record pace.

David Cameron is prepared to consider placing a temporary cap on the most expensive electricity bills after a watchdog concluded that customers were being overcharged by £1.2 billion a year, No 10 has said.

The eurozone has given Greece until Thursday to present new proposals to secure a deal with creditors, and has called a full EU summit for Sunday.

The chief executive of Barclays, Antony Jenkins, has been sacked following an apparent disagreement on the bank’s direction.