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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).

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