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Gordon Brown with other officials

Donation initiative expands to help more than 50,000 across Scotland

A wheelchair access button

‘Severe impact’ of rising living costs on disabled households highlighted

A woman looking stressed

Cryptocurrency scam warning issued by ombudsman service

Banned ad

Ads for pubs and nightclubs banned for encouraging excessive drinking

An oil platform

Domestic energy spend to top £100bn after October price rise, report estimates

Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm

Oil and gas trade body calls for more offshore wind

A view of turbines at Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshire

Public backs wind and solar farms to reduce energy bills, poll suggests

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Brexiteer investment firm boss becomes Business Secretary

Kwasi Kwarteng

Kwasi Kwarteng: Long-term Liz Truss ally to hold nation’s purse strings

Energy costs

What support is expected on energy bills?

Conservative leadership bid

European markets edge higher as UK awaits energy bill support package

A family enjoying a hot tub

Hot tubs ‘running dry as households squeezed by rising living costs’

An outflow pipe at Seafield beach in Scotland

Nationalise water companies to help reduce sewage pollution, ministers told

Halfords fined £30k for sending 500,000 unwanted marketing emails

Halfords hit with fine for sending 500,000 unwanted marketing emails

Takeovers and mergers slowed in June as UK firms fielded economic turmoil

Takeovers and mergers slowed in June as UK firms fielded economic turmoil

Birmingham HS2 Interchange station

New HS2 station will bring 1,000 jobs and apprenticeships

Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie Johnson

Johnson resigns as prime minister at Balmoral as Truss prepares for office

Energy costs

‘Households will get poorer’ even if energy bills frozen, economists warn MPs