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Fund Her North partners with NatWest to boost investment opportunities
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KKR joins scrum of suitors for Rugby World Cup stake
KKR, one of the world’s biggest private equity investors, is joining a scrum of suitors to buy a stake in the commercial rights to rugby union’s World Cup.Sky News has learnt that KKR, which has owned prominent British businesses such as Boots The Chemist, has held preliminary talks with World Rugby – the sport’s global …
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Evening Standard
Defence giant Cobham ups offer in dogfight for UK military tech specialist Ultra
US-owned Cobham today edged closer to clinching a £2.6 billion deal to acquire Ultra Electronics as a takeover battle for one of Britain’s top defence firms intensified.The board of Ultra, a FTSE250 manufacturer of fighter jet and missile components,  said it was “minded to recommend” a raised cash offer of £35 per share from Cobham, …
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Bilfinger creating 80 jobs after Hinkley Point C deal
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UK’s 2nd largest publisher opens Manchester office as national expansion begins
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Belfast couple launch fitness business with Game of Thrones producer backing
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Premier Foods hails ‘strong’ sales and forecasts profits will hit top end of expectations
Oxo-owner Premier Foods appeared to shrug off concerns over rising raw material and ingredients costs on Friday as it forecast full-year profits to come in at the top end of expectations. The FTSE 250 firm, behind store-cupboard staples Mr Kipling and Ambrosia, smashed through sales targets in the 13 weeks to early July, with revenues …
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UK economic rebound slows sharply as pingdemic takes toll
The UK’s economic bounce-back has slowed sharply partly thanks to the impact of the “pingdemic” causing workers to isolate, according to a key business survey.A “flash” estimate of private sector activity for July showed the weakest expansion since March as Britain’s firms battle to recover from the coronavirus crisis. The reading of 57.7 – where …
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Self-isolation exemption for food supply chain staff won’t be extended to other businesses – minister
Emergency measures to exempt food supply chain workers from coronavirus self-isolation rules will not be extended to other businesses, the environment secretary has told Sky News.On excluding other sectors such as hospitality, George Eustice said he understood it was frustrating, but stressed the need to “dampen the pace and velocity” at which the COVID-19 infection …
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Euro 2020 delivers boost for retail sales but clothes stores slip back
Football fans stocking up in supermarkets delivered a boost to the UK retail sector last month but fashion stores suffered a setback, official figures show.Retail sales volumes rose by 0.5% in June having dipped the month before, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The biggest contribution to the increase came from food stores, …
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Business Weekly
DeepMind partners with EMBL-EBI in bid to revolutionise biology
Cambridge has made another major scientific advance which could herald a new era for biology on the scale of the Human Genome breakthrough. Just as the Human Genome discovery marked the beginning of a revolution in genomics, the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database – set to host millions of protein structures predicted using artificial intelligence – …
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Mike Lynch challenge to Priti Patel: ‘I will fight any US extradition order’
Cambridge tech entrepreneur Dr Mike Lynch says he will fight on with a robust appeal if Home Secretary Priti Patel backs a court’s decision to extradite him to the US over fraud charges he vehemently denies. Michael Snow, district judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, today refused Dr Lynch’s attempt to block extradition to face 17 …

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