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UK manufacturing growth slows as shipping delays hit exports, PMI shows
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Food inflation now lower than at any time since 2021, figures show
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ECB's next rate cut an easy decision before choices become hard, Wunsch says
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Poverty, apathy, despair: the bellwether Midlands seat where the UK election could be decided
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