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Cornwall Museum Partnership announces notice of closure
Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) has announced that it is set to close. The charity, which is based in Redruth, revealed in an online statement that it had been undertaking a strategic business and funding review since Arts Council England withdrew CMP’s conditional offer of National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) 2023-26 funding in January 2023. Like this …
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Investigation launched into England and Wales’s ‘worst’ water company
Ofwat has launched an investigation into South East Water over concerns it is failing to reliably provide supplies to households and businesses.It comes after a string of incidents in which customers were left without water – including some for as long as 23 days. The firm angered households further in the summer by then introducing …
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Food giant Mars to buy Hotel Chocolat in £534m deal
Hotel Chocolat has agreed to a £534m takeover offer from Mars, the maker of goods from Snickers bars to Pedigree dog food.The UK specialist chocolatier retailer said the cash offer represented a 170% premium to its London share price of 139p. Shares soared by 164% at the market open in response.Mars has proposed to pay …
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Royal Mail reports £319m half-year loss – and blames economy and strikes
Royal Mail’s parent firm says the tough economy has knocked its recovery from the bitter pay dispute with frontline staff, reporting half-year losses of £319m. IDS said the adjusted operating loss figure for the six months to 24 September was 45% up on the same period a year ago. It was mainly driven by lower …
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Manchester United chief executive to ‘step down’ in management transition
Manchester United has confirmed its chief executive of two years, Richard Arnold, “has decided to step down” as part of a “management transition”.The development was revealed shortly after Sky News reported that Mr Arnold would be replaced by the club’s general counsel, Patrick Stewart, on an interim basis. The change is taking place as the …
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Bristol company wins big at Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards 2023
Bristol-based baby device firm Rockit Rocker was awarded the Department for Business & Trade Exporter of the Year Award at the Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards 2023. The company which creates sleep aids for infants was praised by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt at the awards, which took place on Tuesday evening (November 14) at the …
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Redrawn Earl’s Court redevelopment plans include more open space and fewer skyscrapers
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Private rental costs run at fresh record high
The pace of private rental bills hit a new record high last month, according to official figures charting the impact of rising interest rates on the housing market.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) measured UK rental prices, in a provisional estimate, rising at a rate of 6.1% in the 12 months to October. That was …
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Government set to hike prices to put offshore wind auction back on track
The government will this week increase the price offered to offshore wind farm developers after the total failure of its last auction round left the UK’s net zero targets in jeopardy.The target price for the next auction round, known as AR6, is expected to be around £70 to £75 per megawatt hour. That is a …
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Google CEO returns to court to defend technology giant
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Inflation panic seems to be over but cost of living crisis remains
In a sense, the headline news today is the least important bit of all.Inflation has dropped to 4.6% which means the chancellor and prime minister can claim victory in one of their five pledges – the one to halve inflation by the end of the year. True, there’s still a few months of data left …
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