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Price cuts on family summer days out come into force

Families are expected to get cheaper access to theme parks, zoos and museums as well as kids' meals as a temporary VAT cut comes in to force on Thursday for the school summer holidays.

Attraction tax cut welcomed by businesses

Plans to cut prices at family attractions over the summer holidays will be a "wonderful initiative" to help more people visit, a business has said.

Trump accuses oil firms of price gouging at petrol pumps

US President Donald Trump has said he has ordered an investigation into major energy companies, accusing them of "gouging" customers by not cutting petrol prices after wholesale oil costs fell on global markets.

US to probe petrol price gouging claims, Trump says

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he has ordered an investigation into major energy companies, accusing them of "gouging" customers by not cutting petrol prices after the cost of crude oil fell on global …

Ten years on, Brexit's economic impact is becoming clearer

Not long after the UK left the EU in 2020, a Bristol-based firm called Eskimo started selling a new kind of high-fashion and energy-efficient electric radiator, based on new technology developed by academics in the city.