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A community cafe in Telford is offering free breakfasts to people who are finding it difficult to access hot meals this winter. The Hummingbird Cafe, based at Meeting Point House in Southwater Square, is handing out the meals three times a week until the end of March. The cafe said no forms or explanations were…

Kelly Foranand Jonny Humphries,North West Kelly Foran/BBC Andy Hawthorne said the idea, formed to help ease food insecurity, had “gone a bit nuts” A charity boss who founded a community shop selling groceries at a fraction of the price of supermarkets said the concept was so successful “it had gone a bit nuts”. Andy Hawthorne…

High street baker Greggs is set to raise prices on its breakfast meal deals and biscuits in response to growing cost pressures, the company’s chief executive has said. Roisin Currie said the price increases would kick in from Thursday. She said the action was being taken in response to increased staffing costs, including the impact…

Pritti MistryBusiness reporter PA Media Betty Brown said she was accepting the honour on behalf of all the victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to justice after…

Egon CossouBusiness reporter Trinity Metals You probably don’t give much thought to the device that you’re reading this article on, as long as it looks good and keeps working. But the elements that power and run it are the subject of an escalating struggle between the world’s two biggest economies – the US and China…