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Fire Brigade Union general secretary Matt Wrack has called for a national campaign of non-compliance with new employment laws
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Unions should not comply with new minimum service laws, says FBU chief

Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack has called for ‘mass non-compliance’ with the proposed laws.
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Dog chews instead of chicken breasts among unusual store delivery substitutions

Almost half of supermarket deliveries included a substitute item over the last 12 months, Which? found.
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Holidaymakers need ‘careful planning’ to find bargain destinations – report

Typical tourist items are higher in four out of five popular resorts and cities compared with a year ago, according to Post Office Travel Money.
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Smelling the opportunities for coffee in Silicon Roundabout

Coffee once made him sick - but now Grind founder David Abrahamovitch sells more than a million cups of coffee each year

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Market jitters return as cost of insuring against Deutsche Bank collapse soars

Shares in the German banking giant dropped by around 14% on Friday morning.
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Game of Thrones Fabergé egg helps Gemfields hatch record revenues

London-listed rubies and emeralds producer is planning a 007 Fabergé piece

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Wetherspoons resumes staff bonus with boss optimistic on inflation

Martin also said supply issues, which have now “largely disappeared”, had been caused by the pandemic reopening rather than Brexit

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The woman who holds the second-worst job in Britain

City Voices: Dame Sharon White should stick to her guns at John Lewis

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Wes Streeting: I do not support the junior doctors strike

But Labour’s shadow health secretary said junior doctors are not being ‘unfair or unreasonable’ in their pay demands.
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Interest rates hiked to 4.25% but Bank of England ‘hopeful’

The quarter-point rise comes amid growing talk in the City that rates are now near their peak

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Junior doctors to hold fresh strikes in pay row

The British Medical Association has accused the Government of not being serious about resolving the pay dispute.
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FTSE 100 closes in the red after interest rates hiked again

London’s top index moved 0.89%, or 68.24 points, lower to finish at 7,499.6.
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‘Latest body blow to household finances’ as Bank of England base rate raised

Thursday’s base rate increase will add around £23.71 per month or more than £284 per year to the average tracker mortgage, industry figures show.
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Accenture axing 19,000 jobs worldwide to slash costs

The consulting firm confirmed the cuts will affect its 11,000-strong UK workforce.
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How many more lenders will go the way of SVB?

City Comment: Bank leverage begins to look scary

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Only 1% of £1.1 billion lost to fraudulent Covid grants recovered – watchdog

The business department said that, while ‘no amount of error and fraud is acceptable’, it is not possible to retrieve everything.
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Government ‘acts like Boys From The Blackstuff’s Yosser Hughes over strikes law’

A former TUC president referred to Alan Bleasdale’s TV drama from the 1980s in a debate about legislation.
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Lloyds of London slides to loss as £21bn handed to customers

On Wednesday, Lloyds revealed a pre-tax loss of £769 million in 2022, dropping from a £2.3 billion profit a year earlier.
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Gambling Commission fines 32Red and Unibet £7.1m

Both operators failed to minimise the risk of customers experiencing gambling harm, the commission found.

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Starmer: I’ll scrap my pension tax break when reversing lifetime allowance move

The Labour leader has come in for criticism for opposing pension reforms when he reportedly benefits from a ‘tax-unregistered’ scheme.
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When is the next interest rates announcement?

To counteract rising inflation, the Bank of England has been increasing interest rates in the past year

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Prime Minister backing freeports to ‘turbo charge’ growth in Wales

Rishi Sunak was speaking with port authorities in Holyhead.
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Stockbrokers FinnCap and Cenkos agree £43m merger deal

The merged firm will have more than 210 retained company clients and employ about 230 people in the UK.
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Ten construction firms fined almost £60m over demolition cartel

The construction firms have been punished by the CMA over cartel agreements related to 19 contracts worth over £150 million.
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Number of people in poverty in UK back to pre-pandemic levels

A children’s charity has accused the Government of having ‘snatched away’ help for families after the temporary increase in universal credit.
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What is Sizewell C and how will it be paid for?

The proposed facility would be constructed just to the north of the existing Sizewell B plant in Suffolk, with an estimated cost of £20 billion

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Crest Nicholson sees recovery in house sales, but warns some buyers need support

Sales rates have increased since the start of this year, Crest told shareholders on Thursday.
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Wickes reveals profits fall amid fading DIY demand

The group posted a 38.4% slump in pre-tax profits to £40.3 million for 2022 and cautioned that sales have started 2023 also on the backfoot.
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Small businesses lost four million trading days to strikes in six months – study

A third of 500 small to medium sized companies surveyed said strikes were having a negative impact on their business.
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Interest rates expected to rise after shock increase in inflation

Economists are pencilling in a rise to 4.25% from 4% following official data showing a surprise jump in inflation to 10.4% last month.
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Bank chief says UK financial system could be ‘vulnerable’ to market volatility

The Bank of England insisted that the UK’s banking system is resilient but cautioned over its exposure to wider turmoil.
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Two strike dates suspended by RMT as talks continue

Industrial action due to go ahead on March 30 and April 1 has been put on the back burner.
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Sunak sees off Tory rebels over his new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland

Just 22 Tory rebels – including Boris Johnson and Liz Truss – voted against the measure in the Commons.
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FTSE 100 treads water as investors brace for key interest rate decisions

London’s FTSE 100 had a bumpy start to the day but managed to make gains in the afternoon, closing 0.41% higher.
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OBR cautions over ‘fiscal smoke and mirrors’ after Chancellor’s Budget

the Office for Budget Responsibility said Jeremy Hunt only had around £6.5 billion in headroom in order to hit the Government’s fiscal targets.
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FTSE fell faster in past three weeks than at start of financial crisis

Fears of a banking crisis have seen the FTSE 100 tumble 8% in just 21 days.
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Labour defends leader Keir Starmer against pension hypocrisy claims

A spokesman for the Opposition leader said Sir Keir’s director of public prosecutions pension arrangement was ‘set by the government of the day’.
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Amazon launches own TVs and Luna gaming service in UK

The expansion comes amid a challenging period for technology firms amid pressure on consumer finances and manufacturing inflation.