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Striking NHS junior doctors on the picket line outside Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham

Junior doctors to launch strike ahead of week of walkouts by several unions

A Moonpig box

What London-listed companies are saying about their exposure to the SVB collapse

An electric car charging

Car makers warn UK must ‘step up to compete’ in electric vehicle production

Shipping containers (Steve Parsons/PA)

Customs system to be simplified as part of Budget plans

Passengers at Heathrow

Heathrow ready for ‘successful Easter getaway’ after chaos of 2022

People walk past a Silicon Valley Bank sign at the company's headquarters in California

Silicon Valley Bank UK sold to HSBC

A Silicon Valley Bank sign is shown (Peter Morgan/AP)

US government intervenes to prevent banking crisis

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

PM: UK and US to ‘work through’ concerns over Biden’s package of green subsidies

Scotland’s economy

Business confidence rebounds in Scotland, new research finds

BITC urges PM to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting

Business group urges PM to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting

People look at signs posted outside an entrance to Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, California

Silicon Valley Bank clients will get funds, says US government

Silicon Valley Bank

Scramble to secure Silicon Valley Bank UK takeover amid fears for tech firms hit

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer urges Hunt to get UK off ‘path of managed decline’ ahead of Budget

The stores are closing almost 50 sites combined across the country

Budget chains B&M, Iceland and Wilko closing dozens of high street stores as 'culture of bargain-hunting is over'

Jeremy Hunt

Hunt working ‘at pace’ to help tech firms after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Millions of Brits visit the Canary Islands each year

Canary Islands need 'higher quality' German tourists instead of Brits, president of Lanzarote says

Piles of coins beside banknotes

Hunt vows to be responsible with UK finances ahead of Budget

Hunt says the collapse poses a 'serious risk' to the country's technology and life sciences sector.

HSBC buys UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank in last-ditch rescue deal