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People living in rural areas are having to travel further to find somewhere to withdraw and deposit cash free of charge, says the City regulator.

Ministers have ruled out extending the list of workers who are exempt from self-isolation rules and warned that the August 16 date for lifting quarantine for double-vaccinated people could be delayed.

The Treasury has announced plans to sell off another tranche of NatWest shares over the next 12 months, as part of ongoing efforts to return the taxpayer-owned bank to private ownership.

The websites of HSBC, ITV and Waitrose were among those hit by a widespread outage that briefly caused disruption on Thursday afternoon.

The British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch should be extradited to the US to face criminal fraud charges, a London judge has ruled.

Workers from 16 key sectors including health, transport and energy will not have to isolate after being pinged by the NHS Covid app, as it was revealed that more than 600,000 people in England and Wales were sent self-isolation alerts last week.

Consumer confidence has edged above pre-Covid levels for the first time, a survey suggests.

More than 600,000 people using the NHS Covid-19 app in England and Wales were sent self-isolation alerts in the week between 8 and 15 July.

Next has reported strong revenue growth as shoppers returned to its clothing stores after the Covid-19 lockdown reopening and as a result has decided to repay £29m of business rates relief to the government.

BrewDog swung into the red last year as booming sales of its craft beers online during Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns failed to offset the impact of bar closures.

The government may not introduce vaccine passports if more young people have jabs, Boris Johnson has suggested.

Britain and the European Union are at loggerheads over government demands to rewrite the Brexit deal for Northern Ireland and strip EU courts of their right to police the agreement.

Supermarkets apologised for empty shelves in stores yesterday amid warnings that the “pingdemic” was putting a strain on supply chains.

Royal Mail is hoping the shift to online shopping and home delivery is a permanent trend and not just a pandemic blip as it announced latest apparently positive data on parcel volumes.

The government borrowed £22.8 billion last month, the second highest June total on record, as a sharp increase in debt interest costs offset falls in spending on emergency support in the pandemic.