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UK inflation falls from 10.5% to 10.1% amid ongoing cost of living crisis – business live

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as transport and motor fuel prices contribute to decline in inflation

The Guardian - UK

University staff and civil servants stage fresh strikes over pay and conditions

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show 843,000 working days were lost to labour disputes in December 2022.

The Independent UK

Strikes are back, but it’s still not like the Eighties

City Comment: We’re far from the high-water mark of labour unrest when union bosses made the country close to ungovernable

Evening Standard

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Lost working days from last year’s strike action hits three-decade high

Nearly 2.5 million working days lost to industrial action last year, figures reveal

Evening Standard

UK suffers worst year for strike action since 1989

The United Kingdom recorded the highest number of working days lost to labour disputes in 2022 for more than 30 years, official data showed on Tuesday, as a cost-of-living crisis led employees to walk out in demand of higher pay.

Reuters

Number of days lost to strikes is highest since the Thatcher era

Squeeze on households continues as pay growth suffers one of its largest falls since records began in 2001

The Guardian - UK

FTSE 100 hit record closing high; US inflation slows slightly to 6.4% – as it happened

Blue-chip share index has hit 7996 points for first time, but drops back as US consumer prices index is higher than expected in January

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Unemployment sticks at 3.7% as retired people return to work

Pay continues to be outstripped by rising prices

Wales Online

Healthcare staff shortage main factor in near-record job vacancies

ONS analysis shows sector accounts for more than one in 10 of job ads posted online in December

The Guardian - UK

When the next inflation figures will be released and what it could mean for you

Understanding Consumer Price inflation can help households better manage their finances amid rising costs

Manchester Evening News

TK Maxx, New Look, B&Q, Wetherspoons and more announce closures - see full list

Major retailers including TK Maxx, New Look, Paperchase, B&Q and House of Fraser are set to close in the latest blow to the UK high street, as they grapple with high inflation and the cost of living crisis

Daily Mirror

Covid-19 infections in England rise 8%, first increase in five weeks

The number of people in hospital with Covid is also climbing

Wales Online

Covid-19 infections in England rise for first time in five weeks

The data shows ‘a mixed picture across the UK’

The Independent UK

UK avoids recession by narrowest margin but 'not out of woods yet'

THE UK avoided a recession by the thinnest of margins after the economy flatlined in the last three months of 2022, new data shows.

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Insider UK

UK narrowly avoids recession as the economy flatlines at the end of 2022

When counting to two decimal places, the UK managed 0.01% growth in the fourth quarter

AFP

UK avoids recession but 'not out of woods' over inflation

London (AFP) - Britain's economy has narrowly avoided recession, official data showed Friday, but finance minister Jeremy Hunt warned it was "not out of the woods yet" over surging inflation.

AFP

UK skirts recession with zero fourth-quarter growth

London (AFP) - Britain's economy avoided recession after flatlining in the last three months of 2022, but finance minister Jeremy Hunt warned Friday it was "not out of the woods yet" over surging inflation.

Birmingham Post

UK narrowly avoids recession as economy flatlines at end of 2022

New figures for the last quarter of 2022 show a tiny level of growth, avoiding a second quarter of decline that defines a recession

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Wales Online

UK economic growth hit zero at end of 2022

The economy contracted sharply in December meaning, overall, there was no growth in the economy over the last three months of 2022

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: How this week’s earthquake worsens north-west Syria’s desperate humanitarian crisis

In today’s newsletter: What next for a war-torn region which already has millions of displaced people under threat – and an aid system teetering on the brink

Daily Mirror

UK narrowly avoids recession for second time in a year but set for one in 2023

The figures come amid predictions that about one in four will be "unable to meet in full their planned energy and food bills from their post-tax income" in the 2023-24 financial year

The Independent UK

Knife crime on rise due to ‘teenagers made vulnerable by pandemic’

The number of people killed with a knife in England and Wales in 2021/22 was the highest on record for 76 years.

The Independent UK

Surge in adults still living with parents as they delay getting married and having babies

Proportion of young adults living at home is at its highest ever recorded

The Independent UK

‘Significant increase’ in number of grown-up children living with parents

The Office for National Statistics said the coronavirus pandemic may have contributed by affecting people’s place of usual residence on Census Day.

The Independent UK

Number of people killed with a knife in 2021/22 was highest for 76 years

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published analysis on Thursday.

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