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The S&P Global UK services PMI survey scored 53.7 in August, up from the 52.5 recorded in July and the highest reading since April.

Public hearings are expected to take place in 2025.

Ruth Jones and Joanna Page were spotted filming in Barry, in Wales’s Vale of Glamorgan.

Oliver Marmon died last month after falling from a window at Wellingborough’s Hind Hotel.

Grenfell Tower was covered in flammable materials because of ‘systematic dishonesty’ from those who made and sold cladding and insulation, it said.

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said detectives need at least 12 to 18 months to complete their investigation.

Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s inquiry accused ministers of a ‘serious failure of leadership’ in the government’s drive towards deregulation after 2010.

The blaze in the high-rise block of flats in west London in June 2017 claimed 72 lives.

The report is made up of seven volumes and runs to about 1,700 pages.

The report found that all of the victims burned by the fire were dead or unconscious due to inhalation of asphyxiant gases, primarily carbon monoxide.

The report said a ‘toxic atmosphere’ was ‘fuelled by mistrust on both sides’.

The report found that the Lakanal House fire in Southwark, south London, in 2009 ‘foreshadowed’ the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.

Grenfell United criticised previous governments who ‘aided corporations, facilitating them to profit and dictate regulation’.

Figures in local and central government faced strong criticism in the inquiry’s final report.

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison said she was ‘disappointed’ members of Unison had voted against the local government pay deal.

The winner will be announced on September 13.

Bryonie Gawith, 29, Denisty Birtle, nine, Oscar Birtle, five, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle died following the blaze at their home in Bradford.

Abattoir numbers have declined from about 2,500 in the 1970s to just 203 today, the British Meat Processors Association said.

The chip maker had nearly 300 billion dollars wiped off its market value.

Stephen and Katherine Burch and driver Humphrey Pickering were killed in Beaumaris, Anglesey, on August 28.