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Borrowing soars to record £103.7bn as debt outstrips GDP
Britain's borrowing has soared to a record £103.7bn as debt outstripped GDP for the first time in nearly six decades due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wirecard fighting for life after admitting €1.9bn has gone missing
It looks like becoming one of the great rags to riches to rags again stories in European corporate history.
Bank of England still deeply worried about coronavirus recession
What do you do when you hit rock bottom?
Coronavirus: Shapps calls in KPMG to probe TfL finances
Ministers have hired one of the big four accountancy firms to oversee a review of Transport for London's (TfL) finances, weeks after Whitehall provided £1.6bn of emergency financing to prevent the network's collapse.
US aims to tackle social media ‘anti-conservative bias’
The US has unveiled new proposals to reform how social media companies are regulated following President Trump's complaints about an "anti-conservative bias" in what they moderate.
Bank of England to inject extra £100bn into virus-ravaged economy
The Bank of England has expanded its coronavirus crisis quantitative easing (QE) programme of bond-buying by £100bn - taking the total since March to £300m.
Tesco heads for checkout in Poland through £181m store sale
Tesco has agreed a deal to sell 301 stores in Poland for £181m as it continues to exit markets overseas.
Lloyd’s of London and Greene King apologise for slave trade links
Two of the UK's largest companies have apologised and pledged to make big donations to race equality charities over historic links to the slave trade.
A third of furloughed employees asked to work while firms get government handouts
More than a third of furloughed employees have been asked to carry out work by their bosses, in direct contravention of the rules, according to a new survey.