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10.12.2021 - 18:23
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Business Live
How face mask guidance will change for pubs, restaurants and cafes in Wales from tomorrow
Welsh Government’s latest 21-day review did not bring any additional rules in for businesses in Wales but there were warnings about the risk from the omicorn variant, guidance changes, and plans for more frequent updates. The Government didn’t expand Covid passes to pubs, cafes and restaurants but has changed the guidance from tomorrow on mask …
10.12.2021 - 17:07
Business
Business Live
Sale of LV= to Bain Capital off after mutual’s members fail to back £530m deal
The proposed £530m sale of insurer LV= to US private equity firm Bain Capital is off after the mutual’s members failed to vote through the deal. Around 1.1 million policyholders voted following a general meeting at the company’s head office in Bournemouth, with 69.4% approving the plans – short of the 75% required for it …
10.12.2021 - 16:48
Business
Euro News
Meta takes its first step in making the metaverse real with Horizon Worlds app
10.12.2021 - 16:09
Business
Business Live
Ardent invests £11m in two northern logistics acquisitions
US real estate investor Ardent has completed an £11m double acquisition in the northern logistics sector. Properties spanning almost 300,000 sq ft have been bought from Alliance Property Group in Pickering, North Yorkshire, and Peterlee, County Durham. It takes the portfolio to 1.7 million sq ft across 14 strategic locations in the UK. Read more:2,000 …
10.12.2021 - 15:52
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Business Live
How Covid has hit the young and the old in the workplace
Recent research from the office for National Statistics showed that while the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic had been greatest for younger workers, those older workers aged 50 and above have also been affected and to a greater extent than those in middle age. For example, employment for older workers was at a record high …
10.12.2021 - 15:28
Business
Evening Standard
Hundreds of workers at London’s 90-year-old Ford Dagenham plant win pay rise amid tight labour market
Hundreds of workers at the famous 90-year-old Ford Dagenham plant in east London have won a pay rise in the latest example of workers securing wage hikes in a tight labour market. The factory built iconic vehicles, from Model Y to Zephyr and Fiesta, and now makes hi-tech Transit Custom diesel engines. October marked 90 …
10.12.2021 - 14:41
Business
Sky News
High street banks commit to cash access guarantee amid branch closures row
Britain’s biggest high street banks will next week unveil a venture guaranteeing access to cash amid a furore over the closure of thousands of branches across Britain.Sky News has learned that lenders including Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group have agreed to fund the joint provision of cash services in communities which face being …
10.12.2021 - 14:23
Business
Sky News
US inflation surges to highest level since 1982
US inflation has hit a 39-year high in the latest sign of a cost of living squeeze for consumers in the world’s biggest economy.Figures from America’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed consumer price index (CPI) inflation hit 6.8% last month, the biggest year-on-year surge in prices since June 1982. The reading, which was in …
10.12.2021 - 13:40
Business
Evening Standard
Covid: £500million Plan B blow to London’s economy each month
City forecasters on Friday warned that the Plan B round of Covid restrictions ordered by Boris Johnson will hit the still fragile London economy by up to £500 million a month.Fearful business leaders have denounced the measures — which include new work from home guidance and compulsory vaccine passports for entry to nightclubs — as …
10.12.2021 - 13:17
Business
Euro News
US data giant Palantir is on a mission to seduce France’s start-ups
10.12.2021 - 11:48
Business
Sky News
Work on controversial Cambo oil field halted after Shell pull-out
The company behind the controversial Cambo oil field has said work on the project is being paused – after oil giant Shell pulled out last week.Siccar Point, which owns 70% of the North Sea project off Shetland, said it would now “evaluate next steps”. The project has become a focal point for campaigners seeking to …
10.12.2021 - 11:05
Business
Sky News
Boots puts for sale sign above Aromatherapy Associates
Boots is putting one of its best-known personal care brands up for sale, even as Britain’s biggest high street chemist itself faces being taken over in 2022.Sky News understands that Boots is preparing to sound out potential bidders for Aromatherapy Associates, which it bought in 2014. The deal does not involve the retailer’s other wholly …
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