Your three-minute digest

1 Rishi Sunak is poised to announce he is scrapping plans to build HS2 between Birmingham and Manchester^[1] and reinvesting “every penny” in regional road and rail schemes. The prime minister believes the rationale for the line is based on “old assumptions”.

2 The storm clouds that have enveloped middle England’s favourite department stores group darkened when its boss, Dame Sharon White^[2], said she would be stepping down at the end of her five-year contract.

3 Food prices have fallen for the first time in more than two years^[3] amid “fierce competition” between supermarkets. Monthly grocery inflation slid to -0.1 per cent last month from 0.6 per cent in August, according to the latest shop prices index published by the British Retail Consortium and

References

1. ^{^} scrapping plans to build HS2 between Birmingham and Manchester (www.thetimes.co.uk)
2. ^{^} Dame Sharon White (www.thetimes.co.uk)
3. ^{^} Food prices have fallen for the first time in more than two years (www.thetimes.co.uk)