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Pubs and restaurants cut menu items and increase substitutions as costs rise
Pubs are eyeing up food substitutions and removing food items entirely as higher prices hit business. Mitchells & Butlers, the London-listed company who own more than 1,700 pubs and restaurants including the All Bar One chain, have said they may have to substitute more products than normal or remove food items from menus entirely to …
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Evening Standard
Health Secretary to meet unions over ’emergency coverage’ amid ambulance strikes
Health Secretary Steve Barclay said there is “still a question” over whether ambulance services will cover all emergency callouts during strikes.Unions have said they will respond to life-threatening incidents – known as a category one call – when they strike on December 21 in a row over pay.The GMB, Unison and Unite are co-ordinating industrial …
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Evening Standard
All Bar One owner M&B returns to profit despite ‘challenging’ backdrop
Pub and bar owner Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has swung back to a profit following the easing of pandemic restrictions despite the “highly challenging” trading backdrop.The All Bar One and Toby Carvery owner also told investors on Wednesday morning that like-for-like sales have increased by 6.5% since the end of its latest financial year in …
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Bath University opens new enterprise lab for start-ups
The University of Bath is opening a new innovation and enterprise space for student entrepreneurs, researchers and graduate start-ups. The E-Lab will open its doors on Thursday (December 8) as a space to develop and share ideas for products and services, and to access support and mentoring, the university said. The venue is a significant …
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House prices drop at fastest rate since 2008
UK house prices dropped at the fastest rate since the financial crash in 2008, according to Halifax’s house price index. Prices fell 2.3% from October to November this year, the biggest monthly drop since October 2008, the UK’s largest mortgage lender said. A typical UK property is now nearly £7,000 cheaper as the average cost …
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musicMagpie ‘remains confident’ after record Black Friday sales
musicMagpie has said it “remains confident” in the face of a “challenging consumer environment and growing cost pressures” after achieving record Black Friday sales. The Stockport-headquartered company said that following “cautious consumer behaviour” over the summer and early autumn, November saw increased activity that ended in record sales during the Black Friday week. musicMagpie has …
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Primary schools encouraged to take action on the environment with Better Planet Schools
Sureserve Group PLC has announced an exciting new three year partnership with environmental education charity the Young People’s Trust for the Environment (YPTE). Sureserve will be supporting ‘Better Planet Schools’, YPTE’s new online environmental education platform for primary schools in the UK. Better Planet Schools provides access to lesson plans, worksheets and activities to engage …
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Law firm launch a mobile app, as demand for their conveyancing services soar.
Myerson Solicitors launch a digital mobile app, as demand for their bespoke residential conveyancing services soar. Altrincham law firm Myerson Solicitors launches its first mobile app this month, enabling its residential property clients to start 2023 with full digital access to their transactions at a click of a button. Heather Adams, Partner and Head of …
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‘Fewer than a quarter’ can comfortably afford Christmas and more are turning to credit
The proportion of those who say they can easily afford Christmas this year has nearly halved, according to a debt charity which is warning that more people are turning to credit.StepChange said fewer than a quarter (24%) of people were in a comfortable financial position heading in to the festive season, compared with nearly half …
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Hunt to back review of City ‘unbundling’ in Big Bang 2.0 reforms
Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, will this week commit to a review of City ‘unbundling’ as part of a package of deregulatory reforms aimed at bolstering London’s post-Brexit competitiveness.Sky News has learnt that Mr Hunt will announce as soon as Friday that the measures – dubbed ‘Big Bang 2.0 in the City and Whitehall – will …
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First coal mine in decades approved – a year after UK lobbied to ‘consign coal to history’
Ministers have given the green light to the first new UK coal mine in 30 years, a move “condemned” by the government’s official climate advisers.After years of dispute over planning, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove on Wednesday waved through plans for a new mine in Cumbria, which would provide coal for steel-making rather than power …
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Revealed: Supermarket chains where prices have risen fastest during the cost of living crisis
The price of own-brand and budget products in supermarkets has been rising far faster than premium and branded items during the cost of living crisis, new figures suggest.Which? tracked tens of thousands of products across eight major supermarkets – and while budget ranges had surged by as much as 18%, the price of premium lines …

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