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Latest News:

  • Bradford couple arrested over £3.4m job scheme fraud
  • Asda trials delivering food orders while customers are out in bid to sustain online shopping momentum
  • Plastic bag charge to double to 10p in all shops in England
  • UK SMEs to invest an average of £150,000 as post lockdown optimism grows
  • British Airways owner IAG hit by €1.2bn loss amid ‘uncertain’ passenger forecast
  • Aston Martin looks to the hills for route to a profitable future
  • UK economy set to grow at record pace as Covid recedes
  • National train strike threat over Network Rail job cuts
  • UK business ready to speed up the digital transformation revolution
  • UK car sales rebound after ‘one of darkest years in automotive history’
Twitter

Twitter launches ‘tip jar’ to let users send money to favourite accounts

Twitter has launched a new “tip jar” feature which will allow people to send money to others on the site.

HMRC

Bradford couple arrested over £3.4m job scheme fraud

Two people have been arrested over a suspected £3.4m furlough scheme fraud.

Asda Shopping

Asda trials delivering food orders while customers are out in bid to sustain online shopping momentum

Asda is trialling delivering unattended food orders, allowing drivers to drop off customers’ shopping when no one is home.

Tesco carrier bag

Plastic bag charge to double to 10p in all shops in England

The single-use carrier bag charge will rise from 5p to 10p and be extended to all businesses in England from 21 May.

London Town

Has Covid changed the shape of London forever?

After a rollercoaster year and a half, our economy is preparing to burst back to life.

Business

UK SMEs to invest an average of £150,000 as post lockdown optimism grows

The UK government’s plans to ease lockdown restrictions have seen a surge in optimism from SMEs, according to a new survey.

BA Losses

British Airways owner IAG hit by €1.2bn loss amid ‘uncertain’ passenger forecast

The owner of British Airways, International Airlines Group, reported a €1.2bn pre-tax loss for the first quarter and reiterated the need for the rollout of digital vaccine passports to enable the beleaguered aviation industry to get passengers back in the skies.

Aston Martin

Aston Martin looks to the hills for route to a profitable future

The saviour of Aston Martin — not Lawrence Stroll, the Canadian tycoon, and his friends, who have ploughed hundreds of millions of pounds into the carmaker, but the marque’s long-awaited DBX 4×4 — has hit the road running.

Covid spending

UK economy set to grow at record pace as Covid recedes

Britain is on course for its strongest year of economic growth since the Second World War as households spend their lockdown savings and businesses step up investment, the Bank of England has said.

  1. Twitter launches ‘tip jar’ to let users send money to favourite accounts
  2. Bradford couple arrested over £3.4m job scheme fraud
  3. Asda trials delivering food orders while customers are out in bid to sustain online shopping momentum
  4. Plastic bag charge to double to 10p in all shops in England
  5. Has Covid changed the shape of London forever?
  6. UK SMEs to invest an average of £150,000 as post lockdown optimism grows
  7. British Airways owner IAG hit by €1.2bn loss amid ‘uncertain’ passenger forecast
  8. Aston Martin looks to the hills for route to a profitable future
  9. UK economy set to grow at record pace as Covid recedes

Latest News…

HMRC

Bradford couple arrested over £3.4m job scheme fraud

Two people have been arrested over a suspected £3.4m furlough scheme fraud.

Asda Shopping

Asda trials delivering food orders while customers are out in bid to sustain online shopping momentum

Asda is trialling delivering unattended food orders, allowing drivers to drop off customers’ shopping when no one is home.

Tesco carrier bag

Plastic bag charge to double to 10p in all shops in England

The single-use carrier bag charge will rise from 5p to 10p and be extended to all businesses in England from 21 May.

Business

UK SMEs to invest an average of £150,000 as post lockdown optimism grows

The UK government’s plans to ease lockdown restrictions have seen a surge in optimism from SMEs, according to a new survey.

BA Losses

British Airways owner IAG hit by €1.2bn loss amid ‘uncertain’ passenger forecast

The owner of British Airways, International Airlines Group, reported a €1.2bn pre-tax loss for the first quarter and reiterated the need for the rollout of digital vaccine passports to enable the beleaguered aviation industry to get passengers back in the skies.

Aston Martin

Aston Martin looks to the hills for route to a profitable future

The saviour of Aston Martin — not Lawrence Stroll, the Canadian tycoon, and his friends, who have ploughed hundreds of millions of pounds into the carmaker, but the marque’s long-awaited DBX 4×4 — has hit the road running.

Covid spending

UK economy set to grow at record pace as Covid recedes

Britain is on course for its strongest year of economic growth since the Second World War as households spend their lockdown savings and businesses step up investment, the Bank of England has said.

Network Rail Strike

National train strike threat over Network Rail job cuts

Network Rail is on a collision course for a national strike if it goes ahead with plans to cut thousands of jobs just as the country emerges from the pandemic, the new general secretary of a transport union has warned.

Working from home

UK business ready to speed up the digital transformation revolution

British business is set for a digital revolution according to a survey which indicates that 56 per cent of companies are speeding up plans because of the pandemic.

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Business

Working from home

No full-time return to the office for over a million British workers

Almost all of 50 of the UK’s biggest employers have said they do not plan to bring staff back to the office full-time.

Rune Sovndahl - Fantastic Services Co-founder

Why innovation is the key to sustainable business

Running a business is no easy thing.  For the past 18 years, I’ve been on that journey of entrepreneurship.

Brexit staff levels

Post-pandemic worker shortage puts Brexit to the test

As the hospitality sector begins to reopen, many chains are struggling to find enough staff to do the job

Facebook advertising

Facebook issues warning to advertisers after iPhone privacy crackdown

Facebook has warned advertisers that it may not be able to accurately measure the success of their adverts due a privacy clampdown by Apple in iPhone software.

Male interviewee

UK males are the most devious and deceptive when it comes to getting hired

New research into the impact of the pandemic on the job-seeking landscape has revealed the huge levels of mistrust candidates have about the hiring process, as well as the tricks and tactics many are going to, to get hired.

British Workers

British workers fall behind with pay rises new report shows

The UK is falling behind with annual average salary increases, according to new research which analysed the pay rates for countries over the past two decades.

Arrival electric taxi

Uber picks up new Arrival for a journey to all-electric taxis

Arrival, the British-based electric vehicle start-up, is to develop an electric taxi with Uber.

Profiled…

Andy Lopata

Getting To Know You: Business networking strategist, Andy Lopata

A specialist in professional relationships and networking for over 20 years, we talk to Andy Lopata, who was called  ‘One of Europe’s leading business networking strategists’ by the Financial Times.

Patrick Gaskin, Co-Founder of personalised mail service Cardly

Getting To Know You: Patrick Gaskin, Co-Founder, Cardly

We spoke to Patrick Gaskin, Co-Founder of personalised mail service Cardly as the company is set to take a bigger bite out of the global £14+ billion greeting card and direct mail market with its relaunch in the UK.

Marketing & Social Media

Twitter

Twitter launches ‘tip jar’ to let users send money to favourite accounts

Facebook advertising

Facebook issues warning to advertisers after iPhone privacy crackdown

PR Campaigns

Five common PR mistakes to avoid 

Newswire

Brexit chaos

Customs Crunch – How this startup plans to take the friction out of brexit

Business Matters
  • EU stimulus package announced offers new confidence for investors
  • Struggling TSB set to close 100 branches and axe staff
  • FTSE 100 outperforms European counterparts as oil and tobacco stocks gain
  • Pound sinks ahead of second Brexit parliamentary vote

Get Funded

Munchfit

MunchFit fuels up with £1.2M through equity crowdfunder

MunchFit, healthy food provider to luxury gym Equinox and elite studio Barry’s Bootcamp has closed £1.2m through a recent crowdfunding campaign via Crowdcube, after attracting substantial investor interest.

Anne Boden

Goldman Sachs invests £50M in Anne Boden founded Starling Bank

Starling Bank, the UK digital bank which is the fastest-growing bank for SMEs in Europe has received £50 million as an extension to the bank’s oversubscribed £272 million Series D funding round last month.

revolut nikolay storonsk

Revolut founder plans pathway to $10bn valuation with new investment round

The founder of Revolut is plotting a new fundraising that will value the company at more than $10bn (£7.2bn) and cement his status as one of Europe’s youngest fintech billionaires.

Old peoples home

Investors put £200m into rental homes for retired

Two big investors in British infrastructure have formed a retirement living platform that aims to address an undersupply of rental homes for the elderly.

Seedrs

Seedrs abandons Crowdcube merger after competition watchdog announced deal block

The competition watchdog is set to block the £140m merger between Seedrs and Crowdcube over concerns it would lead to less choice and higher fees.

Spencer Matthews

Angel investor and entrepreneur Spencer Matthews takes bite out of MunchFit as it seeks out “Fitvestors” in crowdfunding round

MunchFit, healthy food provider to luxury gym Equinox and elite studio Barry’s Bootcamp hopes to raise £1m through a crowdfunding round in a bid to satiate the growing appetite for meal plans tailored to fitness goals.

investment

British Business Investments announces new £10m commitment to Co-Fund NI through Regional Angels Programme

British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has committed £10m to Co-Investment Fund (Co-Fund) NI helping to provide growth capital to early stage, high potential smaller businesses in Northern Ireland.

Richard Branson

Airly secures $3m from angels to tackle air pollution

A start-up that uses artificial intelligence to measure levels of air pollution has raised $3.3 million from angel investors to open offices in the UK.

Bopp

New payment platform BOPP launches, giving power back to UK businesses and consumers

BOPP, a brand-new payment platform that removes the need for cards, and uses Open Banking to facilitate immediate, secure payments directly from one bank account to another has launched.

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Legal

Colin the Caterpillar

Colin v Cuthbert – PR as a tool in legal battles

Marks & Spencer has this month filed a claim against Aldi claiming Aldi’s Cuthbert has violated its intellectual property in Colin.

Facebook privacy

‘Scraping’ the barrel? The risks of publicly available data

The social media giants have found themselves in the news again, and not for positive reasons.

power of attorney

Business LPAs – How to safeguard against a future incapacitated partner, director or shareholder

The loss of mental capacity of a director, partner or shareholder could be devastating for a business unless there are the necessary safeguards in place.  

GDPR

‘Pro-growth’ data reforms bring opportunities and risks

On 1 January 2021, following the end of the Brexit transition period, the UK’s data protection laws were changed. Out went the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, and in came the UK’s very own version of the GDPR.

Man outside building

Avoiding Unfair Dismissal Claims – Everything You Need to Know

It’s a legal right of the employees not to be dismissed unfairly. If not handled correctly, such a claim can cause headaches for both employer & employee.

busy office

Know your contractor – all you need to know about IR35 and Off-payroll rules

IR35, intermediaries’ legislation, off-payroll rules, agency rules.  So much jargon! And so many ways in which a contractor/consultant can engage with your business.

businessmen

My data protection predictions for 2021 

In my last column, I looked back at 2020 from an information law perspective. It’s safe to say that no-one would have predicted a year like 2020. And so it’s with some trepidation that I look forward to what we might expect in the year to come. 

Zoom working from home

WFH, algorithms and multi-million-pound fines: the year in data protection

My final column of 2020 is in two parts. In this first part, I reflect on what a strange year we’ve had – picking out some of the highlights from an information law perspective

Trademark

Brexit: 8 Frequently asked questions about trademark registration in the UK

Trademarks are a headache. Trademarks for foreign countries are even worse. You just found out that a US trademark won’t apply in the UK, and who even knows if they work in the EU (they don’t, by the way).

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Made in Britain

Made in Britain: Online marketplace ‘Buy Britain’

Michael Oszmann, Founder of online marketplace Buy Britain, discusses the idea behind his business and how plans to help other small businesses from within the UK.

protein rebel products

Made in Britain: Sports nutrition brand ‘Protein Rebel’

Tim Boote of sports nutrition company, Protein Rebel, talks to us about his business and why they’re looking to challenge the big, whey-based protein brands

The Nest art gallery Liverpool

Made in Britain: Liverpool-based art gallery ‘The Nest’

The Nest in Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock is the home of a number of greetings cards, clothing and other quirky designs.

Made in Britain: Social networking site ‘Meeow’

When the Covid-19 pandemic left Simon Glenn and Chris Rabbitt wondering how they were going to meet new people for business, it was this exact dilemma which sparked the idea for their new venture.

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Opinion

London Town

Has Covid changed the shape of London forever?

Why innovation is the key to sustainable business

‘Scraping’ the barrel? The risks of publicly available data

Technology

HP laptop

Five features you never knew you needed from your PC

HP Laptop

The bold, the creative, the mobile – SMBs and the PC-led future work experience

Corrupted or locked SD card? See how to recover your deleted files with Wondershare Recoverit

Utilities

Energy saving

Manufacturing company recovers thousands from mis-sold energy contracts

A manufacturing firm has joined the growing list of businesses to recover thousands of pounds from its energy broker as a result of mis-selling.

Motoring & Travel Reviews

Cornwall

Cornish Secrets on the advantages of a self-catering holiday in Cornwall

Self-catering can be a bit marmite; many people who love their all-inclusive packages think it sounds just a bit too much like hard work but a self-catering holiday cottage in Cornwall is anything but.

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