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Metro Bank supports hospitality franchise with £14M loan

26 September 201826 September 2018 Get Funded, News Business Matters 0 Comments

Metro Bank has announced that it has provided Auriga Holdings Ltd, the restaurant franchise business, with a £13.95 million debt facility

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Weight Watchers drops ‘weight’ from name in rebrand

26 September 20184 March 2024 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Weight Watchers unveils slimmed down version of its name, rebranding itself WW, in what it is “the next stage of the company’s evolution”

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Royal Mail urges people to not post crisp packets to Walkers

26 September 201826 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Royal Mail has stepped into a row between environmental campaigners and crisp manufacturer Walkers

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Ryanair to cancel 190 flights on Friday across Europe

26 September 201826 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Ryanair has cancelled 190 of its 2,400 scheduled flights this Friday in the face of strike action being taken by unions across europe

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Labour MP Laura Smith calls for general strike

26 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Laura Smith, the Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich, has called for a general strike to help bring down the Conservative government – if there isn’t a general election.

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Jeremy Corbyn unveils plans to create 400,000 ‘green’ jobs

26 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Jeremy Corbyn will promise to “kickstart a green jobs revolution” if Labour wins power, in his closing speech to his party’s conference.

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Pothole ‘epidemic’ hits AA profits hard

26 September 201826 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Bad road conditions and extreme weather in the UK have led to a drop in profits at the AA with pre-tax profit decline 65% to £28m

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Permanent job placements hold firm despite increasing EU uncertainty

26 September 201826 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

New survey data released from The Association of Professional Staffing Companies, the permanent professional markets is holding firm

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UK manufacturing output starts to fall after strong period growth

24 September 20188 September 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Manufacturers’ output volumes growth slowed following robust showing in the previous month, according to latest CBI Industrial Trends Survey

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Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell unveils Labour’s shares plan for workers

24 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Labour would force all large firms to give shares to their workers worth up to £500 a year each, John McDonnell will say later.

House of Fraser

Mike Ashley blames landlords greed for House of Fraser store closures

24 September 201824 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Sports Direct billionaire Mike Ashley has blamed “greedy landlords” for the closure of three House of Fraser department stores.

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PPI ‘reclaims’ are fuelling fraud culture, says Barclays boss

24 September 201824 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The PPI insurance mis-selling scandal has turned many Britons into fraudsters, one of the UK’s top bankers has claimed.

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Petrol prices could fall by £1.50 a tank within weeks

24 September 201824 October 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Petrol prices could fall by as much as 3p a litre as a result of falling wholesale prices and a potential supermarket price war, the AA said

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Customers of NatWest, RBS & Ulster Bank hit by yet another banking glitch

21 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Customers of RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank are currently unable to access their accounts through the banking group’s online and app platforms.

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Uber in early talks to buy Deliveroo

21 September 201825 March 2020 Get Funded, News Business Matters 0 Comments

Uber is in early talks to buy food-delivery company Deliveroo for several billion dollars, according to people familiar with the plans.

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Call blocker firm fined £190,000 for making the nuisance calls it claimed to stop

A company that sold devices promising to protect elderly people from nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 by the ICO for making more than 758,000 of them itself, every one to a number registered with the Telephone Preference Service.

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