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The country is running out of time to build enough of a fund to care for its growing number of elderly.

Prices in March rose 1.6% compared with a year earlier but were down compared with February.

Parents in England are now entitled to 15 hours a week of free childcare for their two-year-olds.

The National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates rose at the beginning of April.

The real estate giant said last week it would delay its earnings report as it faces a winding-up petition.

Price cuts from some of NI's largest gas and electricity providers come into effect on Monday.

Petrol increased by four cent per litre while diesel was raised by three cent per litre on Monday.

The firm previously said SU7 pre-orders had hit 88,898 within 24 hours of it starting to take orders.

From 1 April, the National Living Wage has been extended to include those aged 21 and over.

Xiaomi says it received more than 50,000 orders within the first 27 minutes of the SU7 going on sale.

It is the first time the power station has used gas following the end of coal generation last year.

Challenging conditions remain for households and businesses, the NI Statistics and Research Agency says.

A recession means the UK economy has shrunk for two three-month periods - or quarters - in a row.

There is uncertainty, fuelled by business concerns about recruitment, "extreme cost pressures" and price hikes.

Official data shows the economy contracted during the last two quarters of last year.