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UK wage growth picks up in January but fails to keep pace with inflation

Office for National Statistics says annual pay grew by 4.3% in three months to December

The Guardian - UK

UK pay growth lags behind inflation; company insolvencies rise – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

The Guardian - UK

Jobs market rebounds further but pay growth lags behind inflation

The Office for National Statistics said the number of UK workers on payrolls rose by 108,000 between December and January to 29.5 million.

The Independent UK

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Renters more likely to have higher cost from home working, ONS study finds

People with children and renters more likely to have seen rise in spending for energy and internet access

The Guardian - UK

New figures show people of Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage most at risk during second Covid wave

White British people were more likely to test positive in wave three

Wales Online

Nearly 9 in 10 home workers see rise in bills as cost of living surges

More than 1 in 3 Brits continue to work from home despite easing coronavirus restrictions

Evening Standard

One in 25 teachers and social care workers self-isolating at end of January

Nearly one in 20 of the working-age population in England were in self-isolation at the peak of the Omicron wave.

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Like most, I relish life opening up. But this libertarian dash for the Covid exit is reckless

Will the end of restrictions usher in a change in Britons’ behaviour, or will we continue to live by our own calculations of pleasure and risk?

The Guardian - UK

Covid led to more mothers opting for home births

Some 14,281 mothers across England and Wales gave birth at home in 2020

Wales Online

‘I have to choose between a job I want and a baby - it shouldn't be this way'

“I’m hoping one day soon we’ll be in a position to be able to have a baby, but it never could have happened before I was 30”

Manchester Evening News

UK Treasury pushes to end most free Covid testing despite experts’ warnings

Most PCR testing for people with symptoms could be scrapped by end of March in plans to ‘live with virus’

The Guardian - UK

UK exports to EU fell by £20bn last year, new ONS data shows

Figures show Brexit compounding Covid disruption, with clothing exports plunging 60%, vegetables down 40% and cars 25%

The Guardian - UK

Covid expert on reinfections: Are they milder and do they strengthen immunity?

Reports of reinfection have become common, especially since the emergence of the omicron variant

Wales Online

Hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 cases still being missed from official figures

High levels of under-reporting are exposing the limitations of the daily case numbers.

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The Independent UK

Wales could see all restrictions lifted by end of March, minister claims

Vaughan Gething MS took part in the Welsh Government’s three-week review press conference on Friday.

The Conversation

COVID reinfections: are they milder and do they strengthen immunity?

We’ve known since early on in the pandemic that COVID reinfections could occur. One of the first reinfections reported was in a 33-year-old man from Hong Kong. His initial infection was diagnosed on March 26 2020, with his second infection, with a genetically distinct virus, being diagnosed 142 days later.

The Independent UK

Latest Covid data shows where in UK infections are rising and falling

Prevalence highest in the South East, where 5.8 per cent of the regional population had Covid last week

The Independent UK

Non-EU imports overtook trade with the bloc last year

New data from the Office for National Statistics show the UK imported £222 billion worth of goods from the European Union last year after Brexit.

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The Guardian - UK

Met police did not initially investigate No 10 parties because nobody admitted taking part, legal paper shows – as it happened

Metropolitan police did not investigate lockdown-breaching party claims because there was no social media footage, legal papers show

Wales Online

UK economy grew 7.5 per cent in 2021 amid pandemic rebound

Record gross domestic product growth came after a 9.4% slump in the economy in 2020

Birmingham Post

UK economy grew by 7.5% in 2021 despite December Omicron impact

The economy contracted by 0.2% in December as the hospitality and leisure sector felt the brunt of Omicron and related Government restrictions

The Independent UK

UK economy delivers record growth in 2021 amid Covid rebound

The growth, which exceeded projections by the Bank of England, nevertheless came after a 9.4% slump in the economy in 2020.

The Guardian - UK

UK economy grew by fastest rate since second world war in 2021

GDP rose 7.5% across last year but contracted by 0.2% in December as Omicron dented consumer spending

The Guardian - AU

Johnson receives ‘partygate’ police questionnaire – as it happened

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The Independent UK

Lockdowns saw higher rate of women victims of domestic homicide – ONS

Figures for England and Wales were published on Thursday.

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