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ADVERTORIAL: Handelsbanken continues sponsorship of the Lifetime Achievement Award
The two Leicestershire branches of Handelsbanken, the local relationship bank, have combined resources to sponsor the Lifetime Achievement Award for a further year. The LeicestershireLive Business Executive Awards are taking place live at The Maher Centre on September 16, where the region’s business elite will be reunited for a night of glitz and glamour, celebration …
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MoD awards £250m contract to progress UK’s Tempest fighter jet
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Green light for £505m energy saving project for Swansea Bay City Region
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Up to 1.6 million remain on furlough while taxpayer support also drives record mortgage borrowing
Between 1.1 million to 1.6 million workers remain on full or partial furlough as taxpayer aid for the wage support scheme prepares to be eased further, according to official estimates.A survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that businesses continued to claim COVID-19 salary aid on behalf of between 4% and 5% of …
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UK ‘increasingly confident’ more countries will move to amber or green travel lists
The government is “increasingly confident” that more countries will soon be added to the amber and green travel lists, Dominic Raab has told Sky News.The foreign secretary said he believes opportunities for international travel can in the near future be opened up further as “the momentum forward is positive”. Mr Raab also did not rule …
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Regulator imposes £100m fine over ‘6,000%’ price gouging hit to NHS
The competition watchdog has imposed fines totalling £100m in the latest case of so-called price gouging that saw patients lose access to a free drug on the NHS.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that pharmaceutical company Advanz charged “excessive and unfair prices” for supplying liothyronine tablets, which are used to treat thyroid hormone deficiency …
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Business Weekly
Rolls-Royce sidelines China with small reactor export blueprint
Engineering giant Rolls-Royce, whose CEO is former Arm chief executive Warren East, is primed to steer an innovative, safe and profitable nuclear export business from the UK. Its strategy provides a beacon in the gloom as Britain accelerates a campaign to bar China from any involvement in major UK nuclear power projects. Having excluded Chinese …
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US investors lead $153m round for Artios Pharma
Artios Pharma in Cambridge has raised $153 million Series C cash to advance its portfolio of cancer drug candidates, including its Pol theta program which will enter clinical development later in 2021. Omega Funds in Boston and TCG X in New York and California led the seminal round for the Babraham-based business. Artios is a …
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BAT highlights vaping shift but it’s still cigarette sales producing multi-billion pound profits
For some time now, it has been clear to the world’s biggest tobacco companies that they face an existential crisis.As existing smokers die out, they are not being replaced in sufficient numbers by younger consumers, even in some developing economies where the health risks attached to smoking have been underplayed. Meanwhile, with growing numbers of …
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Evening Standard
Blondie fuels growing art world NFT trend with release of new ‘crypto art’ series
Legendary rock band Blondie has become the latest to join in the art world’s growing trend for digital-only works. The hitmakers are releasing a digital art collection with a series of NFTs (non-fungible tokens). The series of animated artworks are inspired by the computer portrait Andy Warhol generated of the band’s frontwoman, Debbie Harry, in …
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Quarantine rule change will ‘get global Britain back in business’
Travel bosses have hailed the loosening of COVID rules for US and EU travellers as a move that would “get global Britain back in business”.Shares in British Airways owner International Airlines Group rose by nearly 4% while there were also rises for easyJet, Ryanair, Tui and engine maker Rolls-Royce. Cruise operators Carnival and Saga received …
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Housing market cools as stamp duty holiday ‘tapering’ erodes price heat
Average house prices fell back for the first time since March last month as the stamp duty holiday for England and Northern Ireland started to wind down, according to a closely-watched survey.Nationwide Building Society charted a 0.5% decline this month – wiping out much of the gains seen in June as buyers rushed to beat …

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