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Young student entrepreneurs from Slough win £3,000 business investment in The Prince of Wales’ charity’s Enterprise Competition

Vince Cable has set out plans for a state bank that will bring billions of pounds of aid together in a “one stop shop” to help credit starved SMEs secure finance and address an over-reliance on high street banks.

Finalists for the first Veuve Clicquot New Generation Award have been announced announced. The new category which runs alongside the established Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award, aims to celebrate up and coming female entrepreneurial talent in the UK.

The internet company has announced plans to add more than 200 jobs at its Dublin Operations Centre

The House of Lords has blocked a move to allow employees to give up some employment rights in return for shares in the company they work for

Chancellor George Osborne has introduced measures designed to boost the creative industries and small businesses in today’s Budget.

The Chancellor announced in today’s budget that he has scrapped the planned 3p a litre tax hike on petrol due to come into effect in the Autumn.

George Osborne today signalled that corporation tax will be cut to 20 per cent as he burnished his pro-business credentials.

Up to 2.5 million employers will benefit, while 450,000 of the country’s smallest businesses will no longer pay any employer NICs

A Scottish firm has been fined £90,000 for “blighting” the public with thousands of unwanted marketing calls.

J Sainsbury, the supermarket chain, has reported a 3.6pc rise in like-for-like sales over the last ten weeks, beating expectations in the City and boosting hopes of a recovery in the British economy ahead of the Budget.

Research by the Social Market Foundation has found that one in five young people will need to enter into a career in engineering if the UK has any hope of addressing a severe skills shortage.

More than 2 in 5 small business owners believe that none of the UK’s political parties understand their needs, according to research carried out by YouGov on behalf of online accounting provider FreeAgent.

Government and industry have pledged an ambitious long-term partnership and £2 billion of investment to retain the UK’s position at the forefront of world aerospace manufacturing.

The UK tax authority’s new target for answering calls from taxpayers is “unambitious and woefully inadequate”, according to a committee of MPs.