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Bristol eye health app raises £2m in pre-seed funding round
A Bristol start-up that has developed eye health self-monitoring apps has closed a pre-seed funding round of £2m. OKKO Health was founded by Dr Stephanie Campbell in 2018 and includes a range sight-monitoring apps focusing specifically on macular degeneration. The funding round was led by Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures (DvH Ventures), based in Cologne, Germany, …
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Lloyds Bank guards against loan losses but hails ‘resilient’ mortgage customers
Lloyds Banking Group has said most of its mortgage customers will be able to withstand cost-of-living pressures, despite the company revealing it has set aside £668 million to cover loan losses.The UK’s biggest lender said its statutory pre-tax profits were £1.5 billion in the third quarter – a more than 25% drop from the £2 …
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Made.com quits search for rescue buyer after pausing customer orders
Embattled furniture retailer Made.com has edged another step closer to the brink as it confirmed it had abandoned a search for a rescue buyer after admitting that “there is no reasonable prospect” an offer will be forthcoming.Yesterday the business said it had suspended taking new orders from customers. Made later confirmed it was no longer …
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High rents and longer tenancies boost Foxtons revenues
Tenants are paying more and signing up to longer tenancies, according to a trading update from Foxtons estate agents.The London-listed company reported taking in £29.2m in lettings revenue in the three months from July to September this year, an 18% increase on the £24.8m taken in over the same period last year. That increase came …
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Shell reports profits of nearly $10bn for third quarter of year
Shell has reported operating profits of $9.5bn (£8.19bn) for the third quarter of this year, lower than that of the three months before but still more than double the same period in 2021. The London-listed energy giant reported two consecutive quarters of record profit in the first half of the year at a time of …
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Your Daily Commutes Will be Seamless, Connected and Productive.
Laureti & Icona’s Partnership Inches Closer Towards Connected Multimodal Mobility. The roaring 20s of this century are already seeing the mobility revolution through the rise of electric and autonomous technologies, continued innovations of Hyperloops, electric planes and maglev trains. Yet as we head towards 2030, the global share of the urban population is projected to …
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Elon Musk turns up at Twitter HQ carrying a sink as takeover nears completion
Elon Musk has been seen entering Twitter HQ carrying what appears to be a sink.Mr Musk tweeted a video showing himself walking into the building in San Francisco a day after reports that he could close his $44bn takeover of the site by the end of this week. The 51-year-old captioned the video: “Entering Twitter …
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Made.com stops taking customer orders after rescue talks fail
Online furniture retailer Made.com has stopped taking customer orders after rescue talks failed.The British company said on Tuesday that talks with potential buyers had ended, warning that if funding could not be raised before it ran out of cash, it would take “appropriate steps to preserve value for creditors”. On Wednesday, the business said its …
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Press Release: University Preacher Urges Vegan Diet
University Preacher at the University of St Andrews has urged Christians to adopt a vegan diet for the sake of animals and the environment. Preaching on Animal Welfare Sunday, Dr Clair Linzey argues that we should move to a plant-based diet as envisaged in the first chapter of Genesis. “God blesses humans and gives them …
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Fracking ban reinstated as another Truss policy is reversed
Rishi Sunak is reinstating the ban on fracking that Liz Truss controversially lifted.During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, the new prime minister said he stands “by the manifesto” on fracking. The Conservative 2019 manifesto placed a moratorium on fracking in England following opposition from environmentalists and local communities.Mr Sunak‘s spokesman explicitly confirmed he was reinstating …
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End of an era for Ford, struggling air passenger numbers and commitment from big bank
Wilf Frost steps in for Ian King for today’s business podcast, where he speaks to the boss of Heathrow Airport, which is still struggling post-pandemic. He also sits down with the head of Bank of America, who tells him he’s “committed” to the UK, despite recent political and economic turmoil.And there’s also news that the …
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Confirmed: Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal plan delayed by two weeks to become ‘Autumn Statement’
Downing Street has said that an autumn statement will now be delivered on November 17, not on October 31 as originally planned. According to a Cabinet readout: “The Chancellor updated the Cabinet on the timing of the fiscal event. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor agreed that the fiscal event would now take place on …

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