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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Hosepipe bans, England’s women win the Euros and a strike over dragons

6 August 2022

9:00 AM

6 August 2022

9:00 AM

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BP reported quarterly profits of £6.9 billion, its biggest for 14 years, after oil and gas prices rose steeply. Typical domestic energy bills were forecast by the consultancy Cornwall Insight to go above £3,600 a year in the coming winter. Under the family scheme for visas, 31,300 Ukrainians had arrived in the United Kingdom, and 72,700 under the sponsorship scheme.

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