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Rolls-Royce Holdings is to hand its chief executive a multimillion-pound annual pay boost, even as he nears one of Britain's most lucrative ever public company payouts after overseeing a spectacular revival of the industrial manufacturing group.

It's hardly a Love Actually moment of brave UK defiance in the face of a domineering US president - but Sir Keir Starmer has clearly decided it's time to start pushing back.

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Wholesale natural gas prices have risen by more than 40% this month as a raft of pressures, described by one analyst as a "perfect storm", threaten to raise energy bills ahead.

The Greens are calling for people under the age of 22 to have free bus travel in England.

Rachel Reeves's plans to curb cash ISA limits with the aim of fuelling a wave of stock market investing "are doomed to fail", the boss of one of Britain's biggest retail investment platforms has warned.

Water is finally being restored to some homes across Kent and Sussex - after almost a week of chaos.

The UK economy recorded growth of 0.3% in November, according to official figures, showing an improvement for output at a time when households and businesses were anxiously awaiting details of the budget.

South East Water (SEW) is being investigated by regulator Ofwat after repeated outages since November have left tens of thousands of households and businesses across Kent and Sussex without drinking water.

The petrol forecourts giant founded in Blackburn by brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa will next week kick off formal plans for a $9bn (£6.7bn) US stock market listing.