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Boom Battle Bar

Escape room and axe-throwing bar firm XP Factory eyes expansion to 100 sites

Thoroughfare, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Britain’s ‘happiest places to live’ in 2024 revealed

Rio Tinto Pilbara piles

Investor urges Rio Tinto to drop London primary listing

The cost of full tanks for 55-litre family cars are £75 for petrol and £78 for diesel (PA)

Drivers to enjoy cheapest Christmas fuel prices since pandemic – RAC

A general view of the container port at Felixstowe

Trump tariffs could hit UK goods trade as hard as Brexit, says think tank

South Western Railway logo on a train

Southern Western Railways service first to transfer into public ownership

Most MSPs opposed to nuclear power

Four of UK’s five nuclear power stations to be extended beyond planned closure

A British Steel sign outside the company's plant in Lincolnshire

Government considering renationalising British Steel, reports suggest

An image of banknotes

MPs support national insurance hike for employers amid ‘jobs tax’ warning

Unbuttered crumpets on a plate

Sugary porridge and crumpets among food products in anti-obesity advertising ban

A person walks down some stairs inside the London Stock Exchange

FTSE rises and oil prices rally as political instability stokes supply concerns

A NatWest sign on a building

NatWest could be back in private hands by mid-2025, chief says

An Upper Crust in Euston Station, London

SSP sees profits jump but flags Budget cost ‘headwinds’

Commuters walking along a street

Overhaul of official workforce data may take another two years, ONS admits

The Cote at Home 'Festive Chateaubriand Feast' which serves up to six people and costs £154.95

Christmas dinner plates to be ‘piled high’ as cost of living pressures ease – poll

Helen Charlton speaks to MPs on the committee

Cutting finance red tape in pursuit of growth poses ‘top risk’ to consumers

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Reeves repeatedly declines to guarantee no more borrowing or tax rises

Rachel Reeves at the Lord Mayor's Banquet

New Covid corruption chief to leave ‘no stone unturned’, Reeves warns