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The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK

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UK taxpayer unlikely to ever get RBS bailout money back

13 September 201813 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Royal Bank of Scotland’s chairman has admitted it is “unlikely” the government will get back all the £45.5bn pumped in to the bank.

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Payday lender knocks Barclays off top spot in banking complaints table

12 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Payday lending giant CashEuroNet, which owns Quick Quid and Pounds To Pocket, is the most complained-about banking and credit business.

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£200m farmland sale set to test Brexit effect on rural land prices

12 September 201811 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The sale of one of the country’s largest farming operations is to test Brexit’s impact on farmland prices.

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Free cash machines closing at record rate as bank fees hit

12 September 201812 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

More than 250 free-to-use cash machines are disappearing a month as operators shut unprofitable ones, the network co-ordinator Link has said.

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Vodafone broadband adverts banned by advertising standards for being ‘misleading’

12 September 201812 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Adverts for Vodafone broadband have been banned for misleading customers over speeds and reductions in bills.

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Jaguar Land Rover could leave UK after Brexit costing tens of thousands of jobs

11 September 201811 February 2025 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Britain’s biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, has launched a blistering attack on Theresa May’s Brexit plans, saying “tens of thousands” of jobs in the car industry could be lost if the UK crashed out of the EU without a deal.

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HMRC red-carded over employment status of Premier League referees

11 September 201824 October 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The Government should write into statute a positive definition of self-employment after an employment tribunal found that HMRC should have treated professional football referees as contractors and not employees, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has said.

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Carney to stay on as Bank of England governor until 2020 for smooth Brexit transition

11 September 201811 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Mark Carney will remain Bank of England governor until the end of January 2020, Chancellor Philip Hammond has told MPs.

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Over 3,000 licensed premises closed in last 12 months

11 September 201811 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Latest Market Growth Monitor from CGA and AlixPartners highlights ongoing pub closures and mounting challenges in the casual dining sector

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Government commits £100m funding boost for electric car research & development

11 September 201811 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

New funding of more than £100m to develop low and zero-emission vehicles in the UK will be announced by Theresa May on Tuesday.

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UK wages are rising faster than expected boosting consumer spending

11 September 201811 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Wages saw faster than expected growth in the three months to July, as they continued to outstrip rising prices.

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Network Rail sells railway arches for £1.5bn

11 September 201811 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Network Rail is selling its commercial property portfolio in a deal that will raise £1.46bn and shore up the railway operator’s finances.

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Unions call for four-day working week

10 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

A four-day working week will be possible this century if businesses are forced to share the benefits of new technology with their workforce.

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UK growth helped by summer of World Cup & warm weather

10 September 2018 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The UK economy grew by 0.3% in July after being helped by the heatwave and the World Cup, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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With 200 days until Brexit SMEs lack of preparations is putting them at risk

10 September 201822 May 2025 News Business Matters 0 Comments

With 200 days to go until Brexit, over two-fifths of UK SMEs have not made any preparation for the UK leaving the EU new research has shown.

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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.

Burnham’s business rates adviser called for £9bn tax cut for high streets

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