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A new £50 note featuring Alan Turing, the scientist best known for his codebreaking work during the second world war, has been unveiled by the Bank of England and will go into circulation on 23 June, the date of his birth. The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, was due to reveal the design, which …

Nationwide is to tell 13,000 of its staff to work where they want when the coronavirus pandemic restrictions are lifted. The UK’s biggest building society, which has called the initiative Work Anywhere, is to introduce the plan after more than half of employees (57%) said they wanted to work from home full time. More than …

The ticket resale website Viagogo has been accused of advertising non-existent gig tickets on behalf of an employee of its sister company StubHub, prompting calls for regulatory and criminal investigations. Musicians condemned Viagogo amid renewed concern about resale websites, which allow fans – but also professional ticket touts – to sell on music, theatre and …

On the morning we were due to set off on our October half-term holiday, my daughter’s school informed us of two confirmed positive cases of Covid-19 in her class bubble. We were told to self-isolate for 10 days and therefore had to cancel the accommodation we’d booked in a Hoseasons holiday park. Hoseasons insists we …

Traditional working patterns may be breaking down, including where people actually work, as Nicholas Bloom describes (Our research shows working from home works, in moderation, 12 March). In the short term, working at home has penalised women, pushing more of them into double-shifting, or out of work. But there may be reasons for optimism in …