Britain will see the slowest growth in consumer spending in 2019 in six years, piling even more pressure on retailers, says the EY ITEM Club forecast out today.
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Five more people have been arrested in the investigation into the collapse of British cafe chain Patisserie Valerie after accounting irregularities were discovered last year, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said yesterday.
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Lloyds Banking Group has frozen the accounts of about 8,000 offshore banking customers as part of a crackdown on money laundering, after asking them for three years to prove their identity.
