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Activists from Extinction Rebellion stage an anti-fracking protest outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in Westminster, London.

Fracking: what is it, why is it controversial and will it lower bills?

A ship

How will the Government’s energy bills help be paid for?

An online energy bill

What does the Energy Price Guarantee mean for me?

McColl’s takeover bid

Morrisons takeover of McColl’s will ‘not harm majority of shoppers’, says CMA

A gas hob

What is in Liz Truss’s emergency energy package, at a glance

A sewage outflow pipe at Seafield beach, Scotland

Environment Secretary gives water bosses 14 days to set out sewage dumping plans

Darktrace

Darktrace shares dive after private equity firm pulls out of bid talks

Lloyds of London prepares for £1.1 billion claims hit from Ukraine war

Lloyd’s of London puts aside £1.1bn for claims hit from Ukraine war

Prime Minister Liz Truss outside 10 Downing Street

Truss to set out energy plans in first test for her premiership

A Wagamama restaurant sign

Wagamama owner’s profits jump but heatwave weighs on summer dining

GKN

Melrose to spin off GKN’s automotive arm in break-up of engineering group

Primark shop

Primark owner AB Foods set for profit fall next year amid cost-of-living crunch

House building

Affordable homes programme ‘could be more ambitious in supporting wider aims’

Big Zuu

Grime artist Big Zuu urges people to pay attention to their pensions

Aerial views of homes

House sales ‘expected to fall in the months ahead but prices are still rising’

Boots is to sell a HRT treatment without a prescription for the first time (PA)

HRT medicine to be sold without prescription for the first time

London to Glasgow rail record

Government considering withdrawing rail operator Avanti’s West Coast contract

Postal strike

Fresh strikes in Royal Mail dispute over pay and conditions