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Wetherspoons dropping food and drink prices for one day only
Wetherspoons pubs are cutting the prices of all food and drinks for one day this week in a bid to highlight the tax burden on the hospitality industry.The chain will reduce prices by 7.5% in pubs across the UK and Ireland on Thursday.It means that, for example, a customer spending £10 on food and drinks …
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Soft drinks firm Radnor Hills acquires Highland Spring’s Swansea production site
Wales’s leading soft drinks company Radnor Hills has acquired a new production site in Swansea as part of ambitious expansion plans. The firm has bought the site in Blaen Twyni from Scottish bottled water supplier Highland Spring Group which it said will safeguard jobs. The deal also includes a 40-acre water source in the Bannau …
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Fresh dogfood provider Butternut Box has appetite for £500m valuation
Butternut Box, Europe’s largest fresh dogfood provider by revenues, has been valued at well over £500m in a funding round that will defy difficult financing markets for growth-stage companies.Sky News has learnt that Butternut Box, which launched in 2016, has raised more than £275m from investors led by General Atlantic, the private equity firm which …
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Euro News
Inflation in Turkey jumps to 59%
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Stock market today: Asian shares surge after good news from US jobs market
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Sky News
Why are fuel prices on the rise and will they come down?
It’s been a crazy few years for the cost of many services and essentials, with fuel prices among the bills enduring something of a roller-coaster ride.Pump prices during the COVID pandemic sank as low as £1.07 a litre for petrol and £1.11 for diesel as demand fell off a cliff due to lockdowns. As the …
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Music and fashion chiefs to join revamped government Board of Trade
The boss of Universal Music Group and the fashion designer Anya Hindmarch are among a coterie of British business leaders being lined up to join a revamped government Board of Trade.Sky News has learnt Hindmarch, the UMG chairman and chief executive Sir Lucian Grainge and Tim Bevan, the co-founder of film producer Working Title are …
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‘We cannot go on like this’: Tesco staff offered body cameras as assaults rise
Frontline Tesco workers will be offered body cameras following an “unacceptable” spike in verbal and physical attacks.The supermarket’s chief executive Ken Murphy said the move to protect its “unsung heroes” was prompted by a rise in physical assaults by a third compared with this time last year. Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Mr Murphy …
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Ageing tech innovators come to Newcastle thanks to pioneering start-up programme
A host of businesses creating products and services for the UK’s ageing population have been attracted to Newcastle thanks to a nationally significant programme in the city. Six firms have either relocated to Tyneside or are thinking about such a move having worked with The Internet of Caring Things programme – a scheme partly designed …
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Chancellor confident ‘inflation is coming down’ and on track to be halved this year
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is confident his plan to reduce rising prices is working and will soon ease the financial strain on UK households. Ahead of parliament returning on Monday, Mr Hunt acknowledged that many households across the country are still struggling financially. He emphasised that “sticking to the plan” to reduce inflation is the best …
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Steel rescue package could be a ‘missed opportunity’
A government aid package aimed at securing the long-term future of steelmaking in South Wales could be a “missed opportunity”, a senior Labour MP has told Sky News.Stephen Kinnock, whose Aberavon constituency includes Port Talbot, home of the steelworks owned by Tata, also said the deal could be counterproductive. While it does include the building …
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Online gambling firm In Touch Games has licences to operate in Britain suspended
Online gambling firm In Touch Games has had its licences to operate in Britain suspended by the industry regulator.The Gambling Commission suspended the firm’s operating licences as it carries out a review under section 116 of the Gambling Act 2005.It said it suspects the operator failed to follow licence conditions related to money laundering, fair …

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