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AstraZeneca and Merck recently axed plans for sizeable infrastructure investment in Britain, with the US pharma group citing UK drugs prices as a major reason for its U-turn.

A prop axe was brought in as crew members set the scene for a horror movie being filmed in Budapest's former psychiatric institute, one of numerous Hollywood productions under way in the Hungarian capital.

They also want rules on the use of artificial intelligence and better conditions for freelancers, who the federation says are suffering low-paid "exploitation" as employers axe full-time contracts.

The text was one of the first to fall under the axe of Brussels' new drive to make life easier for European industry, struggling in the face of US and Chinese competition.

She claimed a "black hole" in the nation's finances meant winter fuel payments would have to be axed for millions of pensioners and National Insurance hiked for employers.