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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Tuesday 19th October 2021
5. Executives at Amazon, including founder Jeff Bezos, may have misled or lied to Congress about the firm's business practices, top US lawmakers have said.
It follows an investigation by Reuters that claimed Amazon copied products and rigged its search results in India to boost sales of its own brands.
4. One in three jobs in the British music industry were lost during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report from trade body UK Music.
The research said there were 69,000 fewer jobs in music in 2020 than in 2019 - a drop of 35% - due to the "devastating impact" of coronavirus.
3. Tesco is opening its first checkout-free store in central London later on Tuesday, called GetGo.
The UK's biggest retailer said its branch in High Holborn had been converted to allow customers to shop and pay without scanning a product or using a checkout following similar format of stores opened by Amazon
2. Ford is to invest £230m in its Halewood plant on Merseyside to make electric car parts, helping safeguard 500 jobs.
The investment will mean the plant will run for many years longer, said Stuart Rowley, president, Ford of Europe.
1. Homeowners in England and Wales will be offered subsidies of £5,000 from next April to help them replace old gas boilers with low carbon heat pumps.
The grants are part of the government's £3.9bn plan to reduce carbon emissions from heating homes and other buildings.