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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Wednesday 13th July 2022

5. Fashion firm Boohoo #BOO  has become the latest retailer to charge shoppers who return items.

Customers must now pay £1.99 to return products, with the cost deducted from their refund.

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4. Twitter has taken billionaire Elon Musk to court to try to force him to buy the social media firm, setting up a legal battle with the world's richest man.

It comes after Musk announced he was walking away from his proposed $44bn (£37bn) takeover of Twitter on Friday.

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3. Heathrow Airport has told airlines to stop selling summer tickets, as the UK's biggest airport struggles to cope with the rebound in air travel.

The airport is limiting the number of passengers who can depart each day over the peak summer months to 100,000, 4,000 fewer than currently scheduled.

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2. Network Rail has made workers a fresh pay offer worth more than 5%, but depends on workers accepting "modernising reforms" in an attempt to to break a deadlocked row with unions over pay, jobs and conditions.

Thousands of Network Rail workers took part in national strike action in June.

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1. Candidates to be the UK's next prime minister should focus on growth and an overhaul of the tax system over quick cuts, a business group has said.

Promises of tax reductions feature heavily in the leadership campaigns but the CBI business group said the wrong cuts could fuel inflation further.

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