FTSE 100 in biggest drop since April as stock market sell-off continues – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as shares fall across Asia and bitcoin hits a seven-month low ...
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Jamaican farmers warn of food shortages after destruction of Hurricane Melissa – video

The category 5 hurricane has decimated the country's breadbasket of St Elizabeth and neighbouring Manchester and Trelawny, destroying farms and klling livestock. Melissa hit an island that was still ...