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As a month long lockdown begins today in england, well be answering your questions on it. You can tweet me Annita Mcveigh or by posting with the hashtag bbcyourquestions. The bank of england says it will inject an extra £150 billion into the economy to help with the pandemic and Interest Rates remain unchanged. The chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to give details later of how furlogh will work if more parts of the uk go into a wider lockdown. Sainsburys announces it is cutting 3,500 jobs. The cuts will mainly come at argos with more than 400 stores due to close in the next few years. Warn...

SIR – Letters concerning the failure of the Church of England to provide replacement vicars (December 21) quite rightly bemoan the loss of someone to lead them in worship. Yet this is not the only loss.

Plus: the ethics of doctors' strikes; the climate threat; a confiscated overdraft; in defence of SUVs; and Philip Larkin on agnosticism

A new poet laureate has been named for Renfrewshire in a move that comes as no surprise to his former primary school teacher.

Fears are growing that a change to a digital system will leave many isolated – including those who need the telephone the most