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The housing market has had some “respite” in recent weeks as activity picked up amid easing mortgage rates after a challenging 2023, according to surveyors. Inquiries from new buyers are approaching a flatter trend, after falling in recent months, according to the December report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics). – Guardian

Drax has received permission from the government to fit carbon capture technology to its wood-burning power plant, in a project that could cost bill-payers more than £40bn. The energy secretary, Claire Coutinho, on Tuesday approved the project to convert two of its biomass units to use the technology. – Guardian

Shell’s board faces a shareholder rebellion as large investors including the UK’s biggest pension scheme prepare to back a climate activist resolution. Twenty-seven investors have agreed to back a resolution filed by the Dutch shareholder activists at Follow This that calls for the oil company to align its medium-term emissions reduction targets with the 2015 Paris agreement. – Guardian

UK house prices are on track to beat forecasts of a decline in 2024, a leading estate agent has said, as a mortgage pricing war and expectations of Bank of England interest rate cuts rekindle the property market. After a year of sustained price falls in 2023, the global property consultancy Knight Frank said it was updating its forecast for UK house prices to rise by 3% in 2024, up from an earlier estimate of a 4% drop. – Guardian

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The former UK boss of Fujitsu, the technology firm whose flawed IT system is at the heart of the Post Office Horizon scandal, received a £2.6m payoff after standing down from the company in 2019, corporate filings suggest. Fujitsu has come under increasing scrutiny during the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal, which led to thousands of people who owned and ran smaller post offices being falsely accused or convicted of theft or fraud between 1999 and 2015. – Guardian

Pressure is mounting on the government to review more than £2bn in new contracts awarded to Fujitsu since a court ruling in 2019 found its Horizon IT system caused accounting errors that were blamed on more than 900 post office operators who were then wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office. The Japanese company, which continues to hold the prestigious status of being a key “strategic supplier” making more than £100m annually from government work despite the scandal...

MPs have called in bosses from Fujitsu to answer questions in parliament about the company’s role in the Post Office scandal. The Commons business and trade select committee has asked the company to take part in an evidence session in a week’s time after an ITV drama helped put the miscarriage of justice back in the spotlight. – Guardian

And — 80 years after d—day — we speak to the woman who helped map the beaches for the normandy landings. all of those stories coming up in a moment. all of those stories coming up in a moment. now for sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre well start with football and and fulham travel to liverpool laterfor the first—leg of their league cup semi final. its the first time the visitors, fulham, have got to this stage of the competition. th...

They will cut prices by 7% and — 80 years after d—day — we speak to the woman who helped map the beaches for the normandy landings. all of those stories coming up in a moment. all of those stories coming up in a moment. now for sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre well start with football and and fulham travel to liverpool laterfor the first—leg of their league cup semi final. its the first time the visitors, fulham, have got to this s...