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The rising cost of cheapest items on supermarket shelves
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said the cost of some of the cheapest food in supermarkets has risen by nearly two-thirds in the last year, heaping extra pressure on struggling households.Prices have risen across the board, but the ONS has collected 1.5 million prices over the last year to track changes to the …
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The Sungsimdang Cultural Center Opens In Daejeon The City Of Bread
“Sungsimdang” is a must-see tourist site in Daejeon and one of the country’s finest bakeries. Sungsimdang is a well-known bakery that has been passed down through three generations, with the ‘Twi-so’ being the most popular. The signature bread of Sungsimdang is Twi-so which is cooked to a crisp on the exterior with red bean paste …
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WhatsApp goes down for users across the UK
WhatsApp went down for users across the UK this morning, with tens of thousands of people reporting being unable to send or receive messages. Downdetector, which tracks outages, said more than 69,100 reports of problems had been submitted at 8.28am, with issues first detected just before 8am. However, the number of users that experienced issues …
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HSBC profits rise as interest rates increase
British bank HSBC has recorded pre-tax profits of $6.5bn in the third quarter of this year amid hiked interest rates. Pre-tax profits at the bank were up from $1bn during the same period last year as it benefited from increased income from higher interest rates. Net interest income (the difference between what a bank earns …
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Age UK Collaborates with Creative Virtual to Better Meet the Charity’s Goals with Conversational AI
Age UK improves their website experience and better supports Advice Line Advisors with V-Person™ technology London, UK – Creative Virtual, a world leader in conversational AI for customer and employee engagement, is the conversational AI provider of choice for Age UK. Age UK is the United Kingdom’s largest charity for older people, providing services and …
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AllWater Technologies Graduate Project Engineer Presented with IChemE SIESO Medal
A Graduate Project Engineer from an independent company, AllWater Technologies Ltd, has been recognised with the SIESO Medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). Presented at an awards ceremony on October 18th, Lauren Averill received the medal for her work on the 2021 process safety project, Deepwater Horizon Disaster. Described as a “significant award”, …
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Low-cost grocery prices rocket – see which ones have gone up most
The price of low-cost everyday grocery items has increased 17% in the 12 months to September, data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has shown, more than the average rate of food and drink inflation.The figures, based on web-scraped supermarket data for 30 everyday grocery items, showed the cost of items had already increased …
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Scottish Power chief slams government’s handling of ‘unfair’ Bulb sale
Scottish Power has launched a broadside against ministers’ handling of the sale of Bulb, the nationalised utility, accusing them of “distort[ing] competition” in the energy retail sector.Sky News has obtained a letter sent by Keith Anderson, chief executive of the Spanish-owned supplier, to Jacob Rees-Mogg, the business secretary, which effectively calls for the auction of …
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BGT band bring sunshine for 100th anniversary of the BBC
Sussex band the Jive Aces are celebrating after BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing used their arrangement of the legendary Morecambe and Wise theme Bring Me Sunshine on Saturday night for their celebration of a hundred years of the BBC! The Jive Aces, who are UK’s number one jive and swing band and BGT semi finalists, created …
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Investors and founders gear up for final of UK’s largest startup competition
Eight startups will compete in the final of the UK’s largest pitching competition, which will be streamed live from Google in London on 27 October 2022. The Pitch UK gives founders the platform to practise their pitching skills and get connected with investors. They can also win prizes worth more than £10k, as well as …
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Britain has its first hedge fund PM and that matters to the markets | Ed Conway
Rishi Sunak is not just our first British Asian prime minister, our first Hindu PM.He is not just the youngest prime minister of the modern era. He is also the youngest since the Napoleonic wars and the first millennial PM. Just as intriguingly, and possibly even more consequentially, he is Britain’s first hedge fund prime …
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Britain has its first hedge fund PM and that matters to the markets
Rishi Sunak is not just our first British Asian prime minister, our first Hindu PM.He is not just the youngest prime minister of the modern era. He is also the youngest since the Napoleonic wars and the first millennial PM. Just as intriguingly, and possibly even more consequentially, he is Britain’s first hedge fund prime …

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