Supermarkets Tesco and Marks & Spencer both saw strong trading over the Christmas period as higher prices boosted their sales, despite the growing cost of living crisis.
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UK house prices fall for fourth month in a row The average house price in the UK fells for the fourth month in a row…
Third pay rise in a year hands employees a 7.3% rise amid fierce competition to retain and recruit staff Sainsbury’s is handing its lowest-paid workers…
Black Friday fails to deliver expected retail sales boost Official figures show retail sales fell last month after a poor Black Friday – which failed…
Royal Mail workers begin fresh 48-hour strike Royal Mail postal workers have started a new 48-hour strike over pay and working conditions. It is the…
Black Friday: Cost of living crisis may hit sales rush The cost of living crisis is set to dampen this year’s Black Friday sales rush,…
Online electrical store is cutting costs but faces ‘tough environment’ and supply chain problems The online electrical goods retailer AO World has reported bigger half…
Jeremy Hunt announced extra cost of living payments as part of the Autumn statement
The reforms would cap individual costs for care The reforms would cap individual costs for care
Frontline workers at refuges for domestic abuse victims forced to use own money to help women – including those who have gone without food…
Made goes bust, no information on customer refunds Made.com – the online furniture retailer has gone into administration, leading to hundreds of job losses and…
Libraries, art galleries, community centres and places of worship could all become sanctuaries once cold weather bites and millions struggle with the expense of…
Next instalment of grant for low-income families due in November Next instalment of grant for low-income families due in November
Interest rates are now 3 per cent – the highest level since 2008 – in a bid to tackle soaring inflation Interest rates are…
France protests against huge cost of living crisis Thousands of people across Europe took to the streets to protest against soaring prices as weeks of…
LIVE – PM press conference on mini-budget U-turn, chaos and crisis for Liz Truss and the markets
Electricity prices vary by nearly 4p per unit Under the government’s Energy Price Guarantee, people in North Wales, Cheshire and parts of Merseyside are paying…
Liz Truss – live: PM told to reverse tax cuts or face ‘savage’ £60bn austerity hit The Independent says Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi…
Unemployment rates are at their lowest level in nearly 50 years, the latest official figures show.
Tory chair apologises for telling struggling people to just ‘get better-paid job’ The Independent says Conservative party chairman Jake Berry has apologised for his remarks…
Pro-Tory press turn on Truss – end of the line? In a titanic shift Pro-Tory press turn on Truss – does this spell the end…
The Guardian says Liz Truss’s intervention to freeze energy prices for households for two years is expected to cost the government £89bn, according to the first major costing of the policy by the sector’s leading consultancy.
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed that the government will U-turn on plans to scrap the 45p rate of income tax.
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will release a mini-budget on Friday along with National Insurance and corporation tax cuts.
The i says More than a million households are set to pay up to £470 a year more in energy bills due to a 2015 Conservative decision to scrap green home rules, research suggests.