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McDonald’s to hire 20,000 more workers and open new UK restaurants
McDonald’s has announced that it is hiring 20,000 more workers as it opens new restaurants in the UK and Ireland.The US-owned fast food chain is taking on staff and opening 50 new sites in 2021. A further 100 will be added over the next two years, UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy told The …
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Evening Standard
FTSE 100 set to fall with world markets despite Morrisons bid triggering takeover fever
The FTSE 100 Index was set to fall sharply today despite a takeover bid for Morrisons sparking hopes of a new rash of private equity takeovers of UK plcs.Wall Street’s sharp fall on Friday night was likely to spill over to London, getting the week off to a negative start, falling below the 7000 mark. …
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Heading to the office two or three days a week? Train travel is about to get cheaper
Flexible rail tickets will be available in England from today, offering savings on certain routes for those who travel two or three days a week.The tickets are part of reforms announced last month and they can be used from 28 June, allowing travel on any eight days in a 28-day period. Live COVID updates from …
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Business Weekly
Huawei commits to Cambridge innovation push
Reports of Huawei’s death in Cambridge and the UK have been grossly exaggerated. The company remains committed to building out a new optoelectronics R & D and manufacturing centre at Sawston. Key players within the business have urged the mother ship in China to pursue ambitious plans to turn the Cambridge facility into a world-renowned …
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Tinkler in stock market comeback with nmcn rescue deal
Andrew Tinkler, the former Stobart Group chief, is preparing to mount a public company comeback with a deal to rescue nmcn, the London-listed infrastructure services provider.Sky News has learnt that Svella, a corporate vehicle set up by Mr Tinkler and his former Stobart colleague Ben Whawell, is in advanced talks to provide tens of millions …
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Travel restrictions are a ‘trade-off’ and holidays as normal ‘was never going to be the case’
Foreign holidays as normal this summer “was never going to be the case”, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has said as he defended the government’s COVID travel policy.Mr Buckland said “significant trade-offs” have had to be made to ensure COVID cases are kept down, with international travel restricted to “prevent inadvertent spread of new variants of …
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North East company signals growth ambitions with £100m acquisition plan
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Refugees are more likely to be self-employed in the UK. This scheme gives them business training
A pilot scheme which helped 112 refugees with business start-up training has been extended. Funded by the Home Office and the National Lottery Community Fund, the scheme supports refugees for a year, taking them from the idea stage to business launch. After its success, three of the four bodies who delivered the workshops have secured a …
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Morrisons rejects ‘significantly undervalued’ £5.5bn takeover bid
Morrisons has rejected a takeover bid from a private equity firm, saying the £5.5bn value “significantly undervalued” the supermarket chain.It came after Sky News earlier reported the approach from one of the world’s biggest buyout firms, Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). In a statement, the supermarket chain said: “The board of Morrisons evaluated the conditional …
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Planning reforms are bulldozing Conservative support
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to abandon planning reforms after Conservatives at national and local level blamed them for the party’s shock defeat in the Chesham and Amersham by-election.Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Green overturned a 16,000 Conservative majority to win the seat by 8,000 votes in a contest triggered by the death of …
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Buyout giant considers £5.5bn bid for supermarket chain Morrisons
One of the world’s biggest buyout firms is weighing a spectacular £5.5bn takeover bid for Wm Morrison, Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket chain by market share.Sky News has learnt that Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is in the early stages of evaluating an offer for the grocer, a move that would send fresh shockwaves through the UK’s …
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Evening Standard
British Steel pension scandal adviser banned from being a director for 13 years
Darren Reynolds, boss of Active Wealth, the financial advice firm famed for its involvement in the British Steel pension transfer debacle, has been banned from acting as a director for 13 years after losing clients £24 million.Reynolds, 51, advised hundreds of clients on the best way to invest their pension funds and, following his advice, …

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