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Shell

Shell announces plan to sell household energy supply arm

UK bank notes

Competition watchdog increases reward to £250,000 to help crack down on cartels

New CBI boss Rain Newton-Smith

What is the CBI and what are its members voting on?

Housebuilding

UK housebuilding declines at sharpest rate for three years

Commuters on London Bridge with Tower Bridge in the background

CBI facing crunch vote on its future

The City of London

UK takeover activity declines at start of the year

Electricity pylons

SSE to pay £9.8m penalty for licence breach

Herd of dairy cattle cows

AB Foods agrees £48m deal to buy National Milk Records

Models wearing N Brown Group clothes

Simply Be owner warns of ‘very challenging’ conditions as profit plunges

Spotify had invested heavily in podcasting deals with celebrities, including Megan Markle

Spotify slashes 200 more jobs after Harry and Meghan Archetypes podcast deal fails to pay off

CBI

Scandal-hit CBI faces crunch vote in battle to secure its future

Starling banking app

Banking app feature allows economic abuse survivors to mute malicious messages

Consumer spending

Bank holidays fail to boost sales growth amid ongoing inflation worries

Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer bids to persuade unions to back plan for shift to green energy

Glass bottles

UK ministers knock back call to include glass in Scottish deposit return scheme

Post Office Inquiry

Post Office should be ‘ended in current form’ after Horizon scandal – tax expert

Hacker code in laptop.

Boots and British Airways among global firms affected by cyber attack

City of London

FTSE slips into red as oil giants swing lower