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At least 13 people may have taken their own lives after being accused of wrongdoing based on evidence from the Horizon IT system that the Post Office and developers Fujitsu knew could be false, the public inquiry has found.

The UK's public finances are in a "relatively vulnerable position", the government's official forecaster has warned.

The UK will miss the White House-imposed deadline to agree a trade deal on steel and aluminium this week, according to insiders from government and industry.

Officials have set a two-week deadline to find a buyer for the ailing Prax Lindsey oil refinery amid growing doubts over the site's future viability.

The chairman of Marks & Spencer has told MPs the company is still in "rebuild mode" - and will be for "some time to come" - following a cyber attack which led to empty shelves and limited online operations for months.

The long-awaited first report from the Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry lays bare not just the devastating personal toll of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, but also the slow-motion failure of the government and the Post Office to deliver meaningful redress.

Britain's largest residential gas and electricity supplier is set to pay £1.5m in refunds and compensation after failing to provide customers with final bills within six weeks, Ofgem has said. 

Two state-subsidised restaurants, fresh fruit and vegetable vouchers, and a mobile greengrocer delivering nutritious food to deprived communities have been unveiled as part of government plans to support struggling households.

The private equity backers of David Lloyd Leisure, the premium health and fitness clubs chain, are close to finalising a £2bn deal that will see it continue as the company's long-term owner.

Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi sovereign investor, is in talks to snap up a $100m (£73m) stake in Revolut, the digital bank and payments group which is now valued at over £33bn.