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A Tesco store

Tesco profits soar despite £500m Covid-19 costs as new boss takes charge

A Tesco sign

Tesco ups shareholder payouts as profit soars in face of Covid-19

Houses

Burglary warning as one in four leave doors unlocked while at home

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos addresses the House sub-committee

Democrats call for Congress to rein in and break up Big Tech

An operation being carried out

39% of people diagnosed with cancer ‘are severely financially affected’

Woman folding hands

‘Silver splitters’ urged to check if they could receive a state pension boost

Debt letters

Rules around ‘thuggish’ debt letters to be overhauled

Coins and bank notes

Banks paid more than £1bn in taxpayer money for Covid loans – report

Virgin Money

Up to 400 jobs to go at Virgin Money

Virus Outbreak Japan Trump

Trump health progress tips FTSE 100 into green at end of trading

Demand for new airliners will be cut by more than 10% over the next decade due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Boeing (Steve Parsons/PA)

Covid-19 will wipe 11% off demand for new planes over next decade – Boeing

Cryptocurrency

City watchdog bans crypto-derivatives to save investors from £53m in losses

An aerial drone view of the new HMP Five Wells mega-jail in Wellingborough

G4S awarded £300m contract to run new mega-jail

Health Feature

Bipolar drug probe launched by UK competition watchdog

Train carriage

Job losses: Major cuts since the start of the pandemic

New build homes

PM promises to turn ‘generation rent into generation buy’ with new mortgages

Ofgem

More than 100,000 households without an energy supplier after Tonik goes bust

Pubs and restaurants are currently subject to a 10pm curfew

Far more than 500,000 jobs expected to go by end of year, warns hospitality boss