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A total of 10 new stamps celebrate the diverse range of ducks in the UK.

Paul Nowak said Labour should recognise the public mood for decent jobs, pay and working conditions.

Financial markets have been heavily focused on the upcoming Budget, with the sell-off in gilts largely down to worries over Britain’s public finances.

Andrew Bailey said he was ‘very concerned’ by independence issues facing the US’s Federal Reserve.

London has a history of leading transport revolutions. Trains, buses, Tubes and ticketless travel have all come to London early – and it has been no different with electric vehicles…

Financial markets are on edge after yesterday’s global bonds sell-off pushed the UK’s 30-year gilt yield to its highest level since May 1998.

The firms involved – which include US and UK investment firms such as Aberdeen, Elliott Management and BlackRock – submitted an initial financial plan in June to overhaul £17 billion…

As part of this, OEUK chief executive David Whitehouse argued that scrapping the current windfall tax on oil and gas, and replacing it with more “appropriate price mechanisms”, could help…

The FTSE 100 index closed down 79.65 points at 9,116.69.