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Metro Bank, the high street lender, is drawing up plans to raise hundreds of millions of pounds of new capital in weeks in a bid to strengthen its troubled balance sheet.

Rishi Sunak has confirmed the long-rumoured decision to scrap the northern leg of HS2 - a decision branded "wrong" by former prime minister David Cameron.

Rishi Sunak has pledged to raise the legal age for buying cigarettes in England by one year every year in a crackdown on smoking.

Fuel retailers have dismissed claims that drivers are being overcharged following a surge in pump prices.

Tesco has said it will continue to lower grocery prices "wherever we can" while revealing a leap in sales and profits.

Thousands of rail workers and train drivers are going on strike this month - with an overtime ban which started on Monday and mass disruption expected today.

A consortium of strategic and financial investors has approached Ascential, the FTSE 250 data and technology group, with a bid to take over its Cannes Lions and other events operations.

HS2 was touted as the UK's biggest infrastructure project and supposed to transform public transport between London, the Midlands and the North.

The government has come under pressure from retailers to crack down on shoplifting, which they say has surged in the past year. 

The founder of a sports streaming service whose customers include Manchester City Football Club, the Premier League champions, has regained control of it days after the firm collapsed into administration.