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The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates for the 11th time in less than 18 months after Wednesday's surprise jump in inflation. 

The government is cutting benefit payments to some of Britain's poorest families or threatening them with debt collectors in a raid that is "plunging people into poverty". 

The RMT has suspended plans for rail strikes on 30 March and 1 April.

The Federal Reserve - the US central bank, known as the Fed - has increased interest rates for the ninth time in a row.

Striking Amazon workers have vowed to step up industrial action following an "insulting" new pay rise.

Cenkos Securities and finnCap Group, the London-listed brokers, are in advanced talks to merge in an all-share deal that will create the City's biggest dedicated investment bank serving small-cap growth companies.

Audioboom, the London-listed podcasting group, is drawing up plans to pay a maiden dividend amid continued growth in the sector.

The rate of inflation has taken a surprise leap, driven by a rising cost of alcoholic drinks in pubs and food - partly a consequence of the recent salad shortage.

The boss of the owner of British Gas has seen his pay top £4.5m for 2022.

Mozzarella, cornflakes and brie are some of the food products to have more than doubled in price in the last year, new analysis has found.