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Chameleon delivers office fit-out for fintech firm celebrated for its workplace wow – now take a look
How do you create a workspace fit for a company recently ranked in the top 10 in the UK for its existing provision? That was the challenge facing Hull’s Chameleon Business Interiors when fintech firm Dojo turned to it for its new city centre operation. As reported, the payment specialist has expanded, taking a significant …
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Inside Dojo’s new @TheDock base in Hull
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Birmingham apartments approved despite concerns over night-time venues
A controversial new block of flats in Birmingham’s Gay Village have been approved despite fears it could lead to problems in the area. The development site in Kent Street is close to the Nightingale nightclub and other late-night venues. The consented complex will comprise two buildings, of seven and 12 storeys respectively, containing 456 apartments …
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Tommy Coyle’s tips on going the distance as wellness for a workforce explored
Belt-winning professional boxer turned award-winning businessman Tommy Coyle energised a select audience with advice on encouraging employees to ensure they can go the distance. Hull’s Commonwealth lightweight champion, now an undisputed regional expert in opening up health and wellbeing to workforces, was the headline act for a new breakfast event laid on by Business Live …
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Almost 9-in 10 businesses vote in favour of second BID Leicester term
Leicester businesses have voted in favour of a second term for the city’s Business Improvement District. The Leicester BID team said there was a 57 per cent turnout among city centre businesses within the designated catchment area, with almost nine-in-10 – or 89 per cent – voting yes. It means the business support body can …
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UK ports threaten legal action after spending millions on ‘white elephant’ post-Brexit border control posts
Ports across the country are threatening the government with legal action unless compensation is paid to cover the millions of pounds they’ve spent building new border control posts.The posts, due to be up and running this month, were designed to carry out post-Brexit physical checks on imports of plant and animal products from the EU …
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Evening Standard
The UK is doing much better than you think and should avoid recession
Let me confront those – not least of all people, the Governor of the Bank of England – who have written of the near certainty the UK falls into stagflation.Indeed, such are the numbers of those predicting the UK’s GDP numbers will tumble and bury the economy with them, one imagines they have clubbed together …
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Heinz products will return to Tesco shelves after deal reached in pricing row
The full range of Heinz products will return to Tesco shelves after the companies reached an agreement to resolve a pricing dispute.The US food manufacturer had paused the supply of its items in a row that raised questions over who should bear the biggest cost in the current economic climate – manufacturers, retailers, or consumers. …
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Businesses urged not to give in to cyber criminals as authorities see increase in payouts
Businesses are being urged not to pay cyber extortionists as authorities say they are seeing evidence of a rise in ransomware payments.In a joint letter to the Law Society, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Information Commissioner’s Office are warning solicitors who may have been advising their clients to pay. It follows earlier …
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Shinzo Abe’s importance in stemming Japan’s economic decline over the last two decades cannot be overstated
Shinzo Abe’s importance in stemming Japan’s economic decline over the last two decades cannot be overstated.What had been the world’s second-biggest economy before the rise of China had begun to stagnate at the end of 1989 after the bursting of a stupendous asset and property bubble that, at one point, famously saw the land on …
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Hundreds of bus workers to go on strike
Hundreds of bus workers are to go on a continuous strike in a dispute over pay in the latest act of industrial action this summer from transport workers.Engineers and drivers employed by Stagecoach Merseyside will walk-out indefinitely on 20 July, according to Unite. They already downed tools once this month, and will also withdraw their …
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Evening Standard
Time for workers and bosses to shoulder the pain as worker pay rises
It is not a good sign when pawnbrokers are doing roaring business as people are forced to flog off the family jewellery to survive. Borrowing from H&T Group, Britain’s biggest pawnbroker, now exceeds pre-Covid highs with no relaxation in its lending criteria.People are struggling to pay their bills.Discontent is being expressed in a number of …

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