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The company has already upgraded its profit outlook five times over the past year as it has outperformed rivals amid a challenging economic backdrop

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee will meet during the week to see if the economy is showing signs that it's time to start cutting rates

The level of company insolvencies spiked in February with cosmetics chain The Body Shop among the high street brands to collapse into administration

The group, which specialises in urban regeneration projects and higher-end homes, told investors that it is on track to report a pre-tax profit of £550m

The John Lewis Partnership has cautioned over possible job cuts in the year ahead as part of an overhaul

The UK has seen an increase in authorised 'push payment' fraud over the past few years, and in 2022 victims lost £485 million to such scams, the Government said

The group which owns the John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarket chain reported pre-tax profits of £56 million for the year to January 27 against losses of £234 million in the previous year

Both current President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have a slew of issues they must overcome if either of them hope to win reelection and beat out the other in November

The Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility aims to help increase insurance market competition to cover properties affected by combustible cladding and other fire safety problems

A survey of more than 5,500 shop staff showed that almost one in five suffered a violent attack last year, compared with 8% in 2022.

Raman Bhatia will take over as group chief executive from John Mountain, who took over on an interim basis in May

The Office for National Statistics said that the economy grew by 0.2% in January after shrinking 0.1% in December

The standard inheritance tax rate in the UK is 40% on estates valued over £325,000

The Office for National Statistics said average regular pay growth, excluding bonuses, fell to 6.1% in the quarter to January, down from 6.2% in the three months to December

China's consumer price index bounced back by 0.7% in February, hitting an 11-month high, driven by a surge in spending over the holiday season, according to data from China's statistics bureau

The telecoms industry is currently upgrading landline services to new digital technology using an internet connection

The mega-merger is set to create a paper and packaging giant worth more than £10 billion in value

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Since the Tories came to power the money available to fund dental work on the NHS has been cut by a third. They should finally wake up to the crisis they've created

The new edition of Mr Vince's book urges readers to "stop the Tories" to stop the climate crisis and argued Rishi Sunak's decision to axe key climate pledges had handed Labour an advantage

Tory plans to abolish National Insurance would cost £46billion, more than the tax cuts announced by the former PM in a budget that sent mortgages skyrocketing

While the Tories flounder at the bottom of the polls and with major pressure on Rishi Sunak, the best thing would be to call an early election in May to get the pain over and done with

Forget history lessons about kings and generals, this is the stuff our children should never forget

Only 31% of women feel they know enough to make informed choices about investing compared to 44% of men

Those who sold bungalows made the next biggest gross gain typically, at £102,000, Zoopla found