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All major road building projects could be scrapped in Wales
The Welsh Government has announced that all major road schemes will be changed, delayed or axed completely as part of plans to reduce carbon emissions and get more people out of cars and onto public transport, cycling or walking instead.
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‘No one in Britain has got a growth strategy because we’ve just spent the last fifteen years not growing’, says Resolution Foundation CEO
We are joined by Shevaun Haviland, head of the British Chamber of Commerce.
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Job vacancies falling, but still at a historically high levels
Our economics reporter Neil Macdonald tries to get to the bottom of what the new employment figures mean.
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UK wages rise faster than expected – but don’t keep up with inflation
The British economy suffered the same malaise as the rest of the industrialised world during the pandemic.
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Squeeze on household finances to continue, even as UK narrowly avoids recession
Our Economics Reporter Neil Macdonald talks us through the latest economic figures.
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UK economy ‘not out of the woods’, says Chancellor
We spoke to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt.
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UK economy narrowly avoids recession – but for how long?
Many economic experts predicted that the UK would dip into recession in the second half of last year.
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‘A day of obscenity’: Ed MIliband responds to energy companies breaking into struggling customers’ homes
“Today is a day, frankly, of obscenity.” Ed Miliband, Shadow Climate Change Secretary, speaks to @CathyNewman about the revelation energy companies have been breaking into struggling customers’ homes to fit prepayment meters.
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Shell makes £32bn profit – biggest in oil giant’s history
£32 billion – the profits made by Shell last year were the highest in their 115-year history, largely due to the spike in energy prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But the company, which is based in the UK, is paying windfall tax of just £109 million pounds here because it makes most of its…
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‘There are very big risks to the economy’, says Bank of England Governor
We spoke to the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, and asked him how big a risk he thought he and his colleagues were taking by raising rates despite a looming recession.
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Will inflation fall after another interest rate hike?
The Bank of England has hiked interest rates to 4% – a 14-year high. Will it have an impact on UK inflation?
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Bank of England raises UK interest rates to 4% – 14 year high
The Bank of England may have sounded a little less gloomy about the economy today – predicting that the recession will end sooner than it previously thought and that the rate of inflation will fall rapidly later this year. But, it still put its base interest rate up again – this time to 4 per…
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Boxing Day sales face disruption from strikes and cost of living crisis
Seven in 10 of us bought fewer and cheaper presents this festive period.
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Archbishop: King’s coronation ‘a huge honour’ but giving me nightmares
Justin Welby has told this programme he’s honoured at the prospect of becoming the first archbishop in 70 years to crown a British monarch.
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Strikes ‘have worked’ despite government bringing in army, says PCS Union general secretary
We spoke to the General Secretary of the PCS Union, Mark Serwotka.