Oil prices climb to fresh highs, UK petrol price hits record – as it happened
by Joanna Partridge from on (#5R3P9)
- Latest: Oil prices climb to new highs
- UK petrol price also reaches record level
- UK national living wage to increase to 9.50 an hour for over 23's from next April
- Tesla's Model 3 was the bestselling car across Europe in September, the first time a battery electric vehicle has come out on top of monthly sales charts
- Tesco's app and website are back online after hack attempt
- HSBC reported a 74% rise in profit in Q3, beating City forecasts
- Debt-laden Chinese real estate firm Evergrande resuming some construction projects
After Tesco's website and app were down for most of the weekend, leaving many frustrated customers unable to shop online, HSBC's business banking portal (called HSBCnet) had some issues this morning.
Large corporate customers only had intermittent access via the website or app for about an hour, from 9.10am, but the problem has been fixed, according to HSBC.
This is truly a dark day for drivers, and one which we hoped we wouldn't see again after the high prices of April 2012. This will hurt many household budgets and no doubt have knock-on implications for the wider economy.
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