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Angry Birds screen

Angry Birds maker Rovio agrees £625m takeover by Japan’s Sega

File photo dated 05/06/20 of an ambulance outside the Hollymore Ambulance Hub of the West Midlands Ambulance Service in Birmingham,

NHS ‘spends more than £1m a week hiring private ambulances for emergency calls’

Piggy bank and money

Industrial action helped workers secure extra £2bn in pay, figures show

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

UK forms nuclear fuel alliance with US, Canada, Japan and France

Steve Barclay

Barclay warns over nurses’ strike impact on emergency services and cancer care

Royal Mail vans

Royal Mail and union leaders come to agreement over pay and conditions

Amazon fulfilment centre

Hundreds of Amazon workers to walk out amid pay dispute

Money

Labour vows to end default auto-renewal in crackdown on subscription traps

Cost-of-living support

Investors press Britain’s biggest firms to lift wages of lowest-paid staff

Gas ring

Scrap gas networks’ right to forcibly enter homes, campaigners tell peers

Winter weather Feb 14th 2021

Gains for banking stocks help FTSE climb higher

Nurses on the picket line

Nurses announce fresh strike after rejecting Government’s latest pay offer

WH Smith

WH Smith investors eye growth as travel rebound continues

Lidl figures

Lidl and Aldi slash price of milk

Industrial strike

Fresh strikes by civil servants as unions attack pay rise announcement

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase profits jump 52% amid banking turmoil

shoppers in the freezer aisles

Shoppers head to frozen food aisles to quell ‘sizzling hot’ inflation hit

An AO World delivery van

AO World increases profit outlook for fourth time after cutting costs