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Boots owner to explore sale of UK’s biggest high street chemist chain
The parent company of Boots, Britain’s biggest high street chemist, is to explore a sale of the business next year that could value it at well over £5bn.Sky News has learnt that Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is lining up Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street bank, to advise it on a review of options that could …
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Homes development on former Wrexham scrapyard rejected by Welsh Government minister
Welsh Government’s climate change minister has rejected plans to build homes on a former scrapyard. An application to develop 15 properties on the former Legacy Car Dismantlers and Scrap Yard, near Rhosllanerchrugog, was supported by Wrexham Council’s planning committee in July 2020. It was approved against the advice of officers and later called in by …
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Call to ‘keep hospitality in the loop’ as first Omicron Covid variant case reported in Wales
Hospitality businesses across Wales must be “kept in the loop” over the next few weeks say the Welsh Conservatives as the first Omicron Covid variant case is reported in Wales. The Omicron variant of concern – which has caused a surge in cases in South Africa – was identified in the Cardiff and Vale University …
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Severn barrage project on the radar of the Western Gateway partnership
A Severn Barrage tidal energy project could be revived as part of net zero strategies from the cross-border Western Gateway partnership. Backed by local authorities across South Wales and west of England, alongside universities and the private sector, the board of the Western Gateway is considering setting up a independent commission to look at the …
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Evening Standard
Small Business Saturday 2021: How Londoners can help SMEs facing ‘really tough time’
Grassroots campaign Small Business Saturday is back for the ninth year in a row, and is set to help London‘s local, independent businesses take in much-needed extra revenues this weekend. The non-profit initiative, backed by everyone from the Prime Minister and councils to celebrities, was launched in a bid to encourage people to shop local …
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Multi-million pound North Wales project halted when developer collapsed is going back out to tender
A multi-million pound project that was halted when the developer collapsed is going back out to tender. WRW Construction, one of the leading construction firms in Wales, secured the contract for Bwthyn y Ddol in Eirias park, Colwyn Bay. The centre is due to be a haven for vulnerable children needing assessment and stop kids …
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Euro News
Dating in the metaverse? Tinder’s CEO expresses interest in entering the virtual reality world
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Johnson pledges legal help to woo electric vehicle giant Rivian to Britain
Boris Johnson has pledged to use special legal powers to persuade an electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer backed by Amazon to establish a European base in Britain.Sky News has learnt that the prime minister has written to RJ Scaringe, founder and chief executive of Rivian, to offer his backing for the proposed location of a new …
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Bounce-back fraud, Turkish inflation and Bible app funding
Today Sky’s Ian King is in conversation with the head of the National Audit Office, as the government comes under fire for failing to prevent billions of pounds worth of fraud in its bounce-back loan scheme. He’s also discussing Turkey’s mounting economic woes, and chatting to the British entrepreneur whose Bible app Glorify has the …
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Evening Standard
Reopening of US travel brings international boost for UK services, PMIs show
The US border reopening and general relaxing of travel restrictions led to British services firms seeing the sharpest jump in new international business since 2017 last month, according to new figures. Service sector businesses including airlines and travel agents reported a surge in new work from abroad in November, the closely-watched IHS Markit/CIPS UK Services …
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Arbour Housing to build 150 more social homes across Northern Ireland
Social housing provider Arbour Housing is planning to build 150 houses across Northern Ireland in the coming months. The developments in Omagh, Derry and Portadown are in addition to the 180 new homes it is currently building in Newcastle, Newry, Newtownabbey, Lurgan, and Lisburn and follow a steady period of growth for the organisation over …
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Plymouth engineering and chandlery business goes on market
A Plymouth marine engineering and chandlery business which is predicting turnover to hit £700,000 this year has gone on the market. Husband and wife owners Gavin and Sally Hearnden have placed Mount Batten Boathouse Ltd up for sale with a guide price of £130,000, because they want to retire. The business, close to Plymouth Yacht …

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