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Time to look at energy consumption amid soaring bills, says Chancellor
Households need to look at how they are using energy, the Chancellor suggested amid calls for urgent Government intervention to tackle soaring bills.It comes as outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson predicted a “tough” few months ahead – but promised energy prices will eventually come down amid grim predictions about the impact the 80.06% rise in …
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Wall Street and European markets slip after hawkish Powell speech
Stocks slid on Friday after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said he was prepared to raise interest rates further to keep inflation at bay.European markets had been sitting pretty on Friday afternoon until the hawkish speech at the Jackson Hole central banking conference.Wall Street unsurprisingly plunged after the opening bell following the speech, with the …
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Administrators appointed to Leeds’ Awesome Merchandise as assets sold to new company set up by founder
A merchandise specialist that supplied touring bands and small businesses has been sold in a pre-pack deal to a new company belonging to its founder. Leeds’ Awesome Merchandise raised more than £650,000 on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube in 2018 and had since set up US operation in Austin, Texas. The firm offered customised clothing, merchandise and …
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Wrexham latest Welsh town to get Netomnia full fibre broadband rollout
Broadband infrastructure company Netomnia is rolling out its high speed network in Wrexham as part of an up to £12 million investment in the area. Its FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) broadband infrastructure will reach around 40,000 premises in Wrexham and the surrounding area. The company is partnering with business-to-business communications firm G-Force Communications to rollout its broadband …
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ADVERTORIAL: Five tips to help you overcome a fear of digital and grow your business
Leanne Miller is Digital Programme Manager at the Innovation SuperNetwork The presence of digital in our daily lives has grown at an incredible pace over the last decade. Your mobile phone, smart lighting or heating, your car, the till point in your local supermarket – in modern life, digital really is inescapable. For some businesses …
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Evening Standard
Ex-Liverpool chief eyes end of live TV football with new 3D technology
A former boss of Liverpool FC who swapped the directors’ box at Anfield for Silicon Valley says his tech company’s new metaverse 3D cameras will revolutionise the way the “TikTok generation” watch football.Lifelong Reds fan Peter Moore, who was the club’s CEO from 2017 to 2020, even claims people will stop viewing full-length 90-minute football …
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North East firms will collapse without Government aid on energy costs, business leaders warn
Business leaders from the North East say companies will go bust without urgent Government help to tackle rising energy costs. The calls have come after energy regulator Ofgem confirmed an 80.06% rise in the energy price cap, sending the average household’s yearly bill from £1,971 to £3,549 from October. Businesses are not covered by the …
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Spiralling energy bill burden will send UK into catastrophic territory
We have never seen anything like this. The UK has been through all sorts of ups and downs (sadly more of the latter than the former) in recent years. There was the financial crisis of 2008 and the recession that followed, a lost decade of stagnating real wages and productivity, Brexit and of course the COVID-19 …
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Fresh CO2 shortage fears as surging energy costs force factory shutdown
Fresh fears have flared over a shortage of carbon dioxide – critical to the food and drinks industry – after a major supplier said it was halting production in the face of soaring energy costs.There are renewed worries after CF Fertilisers said it was pausing operations at its remaining UK ammonia plant at Billingham near …
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Sky News
Moderna sues Pfizer/BioNTech over COVID vaccine
Moderna is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for alleged patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the US.The lawsuit, which seeks undetermined monetary damages, alleges they copied technology that Moderna had developed years before the pandemic. Moderna chief executive Stephane Bancel said: “We are filing these lawsuits to …
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Energy price cap rise: ‘Zero creative thinking from government’
South West business leaders have slammed the government over its response to the UK’s energy crisis. Ofgem announced on Friday (August 26) the energy price cap would rise more than 80% in October, from £1,971 to £3,549. The cap will come into effect for around 24 million households in England, Scotland and Wales on default …
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Skills are key to our boosting the economy but we continue to ignore at our peril
A constant theme of this column of the last few months has focused on skills and people and I make no apology for that given it is probably the most important issue facing our economy. Unfortunately, it is still not being taken seriously enough by politicians and policymakers within the UK Government or the devolved …

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