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A national study by the UK’s leading online takeaway site has found that Sheffield is home to the hardest working employees in the country, where employees…
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A national study by the UK’s leading online takeaway site has found that Sheffield is home to the hardest working employees in the country, where employees…

The Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has intervened in what had become a turf war between the regions and Whitehall will lead to the Treasury signing off…

If your business is based in a rural location and you want broadband access then you might find that you are hit with higher charges than…

Lord Sugar is threatening to sue the sketch writer and columnist Quentin Letts after Letts described Sugar as being a 'telly peer who doesn’t seem to…

Skype might have to shut down because of a dispute over the core technology used to make the internet telephone system work. EBay, which paid $2.6…

A war of words has erupted between clockwork radio inventor Trevor Baylis and James Caan, one of the multimillionaires who fronts BBC2's Dragon's Den. Mr Baylis…

Alistair Darling has this afternoon demanded to know from the heads of Britain's biggest banks why they are reaping vast interest charges from small businesses when…

Next year's series of The Apprentice may have to be rescheduled if a general election is called, after the BBC Trust ruled that presenter Lord Sugar's…

The star of TV's The Apprentice, now named Baron Sugar of Clapton, was formerly introduced to his fellow peers on Monday afternoon. Flanked by trade minister…

Over 400 business leaders and guests attended The National Business Awards Regional Programme, sponsored by Orange, in London on Tuesday 14th July, to celebrate the success…

Some franchisees of the off-licence chain Threshers are suffering a stock crisis and are furious about how its private equity-owned parent, First Quench Group, is running…

The 62-year-old, who was appointed the Government's Enterprise Tsar earlier this month, is embroiled in a legal battle with a senior female executive at one of…

The Conservative Party is lodging an official complaint with the BBC Trust about Sir Alan Sugar continuing to work on The Apprentice while a government advisor,…

Britain may have come out of recession more than two months ago, a leading economic think tank has suggested.

Restaurant owner Yasmina Siadatan has won a coveted job with Sir Alan Sugar in the final of The Apprentice, the reality television show in which contenders…