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Opportunities abound for those looking to earn some extra cash this summer, with over 12,000 temporary jobs on offer.

Britain’s small businesses are increasingly disillusioned with the Government, fearing that Theresa May’s administration has lost sight of their interests

New research has found that across a number of common commuting locations, there are significant differences in time taken and costs involved between taking the car and taking the train.

Research from specialist recruiter Robert Walters has revealed that just 12 per cent of SMEs have a strategy in place to attract women who are returning to work following a career break, potentially missing out on a valuable source of highly skilled and experienced talent.

SME decision makers over the age of 55 are by far the most relaxed age group when it comes to the perception of overall risk in the economy.

Over half of all UK SMEs said they have a diverse workforce, with a further third stating that improving diversity in the workplace is a focus over the next 12 months.

Colleagues talking loudly, computers crashing and the use of office jargon have been named as some of the worst gripes that office employees experience when at work.

An influential manufacturing lobby group is demanding that the government rethink its current hard Brexit stance in the wake of the election result, to save sector jobs.

Carlsberg has unveiled plans to reduce its brewery carbon emissions to zero, singling out Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the US from the Paris climate agreement as a motivating factor.

Almost a quarter of all households will be living in privately rented accommodation by 2021 due to high house prices and declining buying power, according to a survey.

Over half of Britain’s small business owners have left no instructions in their Will or made any special arrangements regarding shares, leaving their business at threat of closure should a director pass away.

A new report, ‘The Self Organising Self-Employed’, commissioned by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), highlights how the self-employed are coming together to fill the gaps left by Government by pooling their resources in schemes that offer financial support and security.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick took an indefinite leave of absence on Tuesday as a sexual harassment investigation in to the company returned its damning verdict after months of scandal.

UK consumers could end up paying less for e-books following the European Parliament’s vote to allow individual EU countries to align the VAT rate of e-books to the rate applicable to printed publications