Poundland's former owner offers to invest as minister prepares to meet board

Nick Mackenzie will stand down at the end of February next year after leading Britain’s second biggest pub chain for nearly eight years.

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Barclays will this week become the first major UK lender to begin offering compensation payments to former motor finance customers, even as the industry's big financiers face waiting months for the outcome of challenges to a £9bn redress scheme.