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Crisis-hit Boeing has rushed to defend itself from fresh whistleblower allegations of poor practice, as the airline continues to grapple its latest safety crisis.

It's not quite a Mission Accomplished moment - the equivalent of that day in 2003 when George W Bush stood on an aircraft carrier and prematurely declared the Iraq war was over.

The Co-operative Bank will this week move a step closer to regaining its mutual status when it announces that it has struck a £780m deal to be bought by the Coventry Building Society.

The government has agreed to have an independent IT expert review of a Post Office software system predating Horizon, amid claims dozens more sub-postmasters may have been wrongly convicted.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said that "better times are ahead" but that the fundamentals of the UK economy are "very strong".

Almost one million private renters in England have been handed no-fault evictions since the Conservative government promised to abolish them, new data has shown.

Calls made to an anti-slavery helpline have reached a record high, with the number of potential victims in the care sector rising by almost a third.

The new boss of BT Group is dusting off plans for a sale of its Irish corporate business four years after her predecessor called off tlls a deal.

The price of everyday things - mainly food - is now rising at the lowest level since 2021.  

The owner of Royal Mail has rejected an attempt by its biggest shareholders to take over the business but another bid is in the works.

A French firm has struck a deal to buy a majority stake in Edinburgh Airport for around £1.27bn.

Telegram, one of the world's biggest social media networks, "will probably hit one billion active monthly users within the year", according to the app's billionaire founder Pavel Durov.

An employee benefits platform used by Asda and Burger King has secured close to £20m in new funding from investors including a subsidiary of the British Business Bank (BBB).

The Post Office's chief executive has been "exonerated of all misconduct allegations" following an investigation into bullying allegations.

A former investigator for the Post Office has told the Horizon IT inquiry he "always thought" the accounting system was "robust" but acknowledged there were issues in some cases.

A major new film and television studio campus is to be created in Stirling.

On the face of it, the March inflation figures are good news.

Record rainfalls in the United Arab Emirates and the wider Gulf region have flooded major roads and caused "carnage" at Dubai's international airport.

The governor of the Bank of England has signalled the UK is still on course for an interest rate cut as official figures show a further easing in the pace of price growth in the economy.

In the circumstances, the numbers could hardly look much better.