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The House of Lords has delayed the passing of the government's Rwanda bill until next week - in a blow to Rishi Sunak's attempts to get planes off the ground deporting illegal migrants to the country.

The Co-operative Bank will this week move a step closer to regaining its mutual status when it announces that it has struck a £780m deal to be bought by the Coventry Building Society.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said that "better times are ahead" but that the fundamentals of the UK economy are "very strong".

The price of everyday things - mainly food - is now rising at the lowest level since 2021.

MSPs have voted to increase the minimum unit price of alcohol by 30%.

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.

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.

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.

China desperately needs its people to have more babies.

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).

The Post Office's chief executive has been "exonerated of all misconduct allegations" following an investigation into allegations of bullying.

The governor of the Bank of England has signalled the UK is still on course for an interest rate cut as official figures show a further easing in the pace of price growth in the economy.

Rishi Sunak has been badly burned by a Commons rebellion by nearly 60 Tory MPs who voted against his flagship Tobacco and Vaping Bill.

New defeats for the government's Rwanda bill in the House of Lords have set up a parliamentary showdown on Wednesday - forcing MPs to consider changes to Rishi Sunak's stop the boats plan.

The government would not have accepted faulty accounting software Horizon being phased out, a former Post Office chief executive told the inquiry into the wrongful prosecution of sub-postmasters.

A judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has warned the former president about "intimidating" potential jurors in the case.

The former workers of a Glasgow music venue have won an employment tribunal nine months after its closure.

Getir, the grocery app which expanded at breakneck speed to become of the world's most valuable fast-delivery platforms, is weighing a string of asset sales as part of crunch restructuring talks.

Creative Scotland has clawed back more than £67,000 from an explicit arts project that planned to include real sex performances.

Struggling Superdry has revealed plans for a fundraising and restructuring, warning that failure will mean it faces administration.

DS Smith, the UK packaging specialist, has agreed a takeover by US rival International Paper that values it at £5.8bn.

Britons are throwing away an estimated 1.7 billion pieces of plastic a week - with campaigners describing it as a crisis "out of control".

A weaker than expected easing in the pace of pay rises means real earnings growth, when inflation is taken into account, is at its highest rate in almost two and a half years, according to the latest official figures.

MPs have rejected a series of Lords' amendments to the government's Rwanda bill - as a week of parliamentary showdown on the legislation begins.

The FTSE-250 engineering services company John Wood Group is facing fresh calls to launch a strategic review almost a year after the collapse of a £1.7bn takeover bid.

The UK economy is going to grow less than expected this year - with the International Monetary Fund warning the country will remain the second worst performer in the G7.

Donald Trump has described the hush money case against him as a "scam" – with no jurors selected on day one and some admitting they could not be impartial.

Global oil prices dipped slightly this morning despite rising tensions in the Middle East.

Tesla is cutting 10% of its global workforce in a bid to reduce costs and bolster productivity, it has been reported.