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Petrol and diesel prices are slowly but steadily falling in the UK, latest figures show.

Just over half of councils in England have started making payments to COVID-hit businesses from a £1.5bn support package - almost 18 months after it was launched.

Qantas executives are being asked to volunteer for crucial roles such as baggage handling as the airline tries to fight the chaos that has dogged many of its competitors worldwide.

Workers in many sectors are ramping up their calls for better pay and conditions, particularly as the cost-of-living crisis starts to bite.

With the UK bracing itself for another heatwave, there are warnings parts of the country could experience droughts this month.

Arcadia Group's pension schemes are closing in on a deal to offload retirement funding promises made by the retail empire, owned by Sir Philip Green, prior to its collapse two years ago.

People will have to go without food and be unable to heat their homes by October if the government doesn't take urgent action on the cost of living crisis, Gordon Brown has warned.

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are coming under growing pressure to explain how they would help British families with the cost of living crisis this autumn.

The high street giant Next is in talks to take a big stake in Joules, the struggling fashion and lifestyle products chain.

The US hiring boom continued last month, as employers added 528,000 jobs - more than double the number expected.