Summary

  • Police are called to supermarkets across the UK as record crowds queue for "Black Friday" offers

  • Ofgem penalises energy suppliers for failing to implement energy efficiency schemes

Live Reporting

Joe Miller and Matthew West

  1. Black Friday

    Eric Musgrave, editor of Drapers magazine, thunders in his column that "Black Friday's discount deals are as welcome as Japanese knotweed" and that "it will take a brave retailer with a cool head and deep pockets to maintain the dignity and good sense to resist this madness".

  2. Eurozone unemployment

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    This graph shows how the unemployment rates in the eurozone, wider EU, the US and Japan compare since 2000. As you can see, the EU and US reached similarly high levels at the height of the financial crisis, but the US has fared a lot better since.