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Foxtons shop

London rent prices surge by 20% but house sales losing steam, Foxtons says

A box full of mixed colourful Lego bricks

Demand for bigger sets helps Lego sales jump in 2022

Houses

Average UK house price down by £8,500 from August 2022 peak, says Halifax

Childcare issues

UK gender pay gap widens as childcare costs worsen ‘motherhood penalty’

Greggs on a roll with big expansion plans

Greggs to roll out 150 new stores a year and trial 24-hour drive-thru

Premier Foods

Mr Kipling firm Premier Foods hikes profit outlook as sales surge

A Greggs shop

Greggs eyes up big expansion plans as sales jump by nearly a quarter

Donations at a food bank

One in seven skipping meals due to rising cost of living, Which? finds

A pile of coins

£76m in forgotten accounts to help with living costs and energy-saving projects

Shoppers

Retail sales hold up better than expected in February

E.on logo on card

Energy supplier E.on Next plans hiring spree as it looks for 1,300 new staff

Close-up of group of people sitting on chairs and making notes in notebooks during seminar

Learners can use loan to help ‘train and upskill’ throughout working lives

Rachel Reeves

Labour sets out plan for tax review to provide businesses with stability

Firefighter

Pay rise will be a lifeline for some firefighters, union leader says

City

Commodities drive fall as FTSE outperformed by European peers

Elon Musk

Turkish watchdog fines Elon Musk ‘for buying Twitter without permission’

Firefighters stock

Firefighters accept revised pay deal to avert strikes

An inflatable decoy of Himars is presented to media in Decin, Czech Republic

Business booming for Czech firm making inflatable ‘decoy’ tanks and howitzers