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<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Parents of nursery and primary school-age children are facing more than £600 of extra childcare costs a month, a study has found, as employers demand staff spend more days in the office.More than half of parents said they had come under increasing pressure to increase time spent at their desks, in response to a survey by the flexible ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>A government credit guarantee has allowed Teesside stainless steel alloy inventor and manufacturer Paralloy to secure up to £26 million of a Santander UK bank guarantee facility to support the continued growth of its export business.Announced on National Manufacturing Day, the guarantee from UK Export Finance (UKEF) – the government’s export credit agency – allows Santander UK to ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Maison Sport, the leading connecting independent ski and snowboard instructors with snowsports enthusiasts, today announces it has successfully raised £2.5million in its latest investment round, with a further £500,000 due to close within weeks.The series A funding round was led by Alp Invest, a Swiss based family company, which sees them join the company as shareholders alongside other ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>One-in-five SME owners plan to sell part or all their business within the next two years according to a new study.An additional one in ten respondents expect to downsize their businesses over the same period. Of these, a third blame rising costs, 18% cite performance-related issues and a further one in six need to release liquidity to deal ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Laverock Therapeutics, established to commercialise the gene editing induced gene silencing platform for all human therapeutic applications has announced it has expanded its seed funding round to £13.5M.This investment was led by Calculus Capital with additional participation by Eli Lilly and Company, Mercia Ventures, Maven Capital Partners, Eos, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund and Tekfen Ventures. The ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????> The UK government has disbanded the independent advisory board of its Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) without any announcement amid a wider push to position the UK as a global leader in AI governance. Launched in June 2018 to drive a collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach to the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) and other data-driven technologies, ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Five Labour mayors have urged Rishi Sunak not to scrap, delay or scale back HS2 as it would “leave swathes of the north with Victorian transport infrastructure that is unfit for purpose”.Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and Steve Rotheram say they have been “inundated” with concerns from constituents about the potential “economic damage that will ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Antony Vallee founded Teamed to simplify the process of building teams – no matter where they are based in the world. Through their own legal entities and global infrastructure, they manage all HR, Compliance, Payroll, and Tax matters for remote talent anywhere in the world. Today their fully distributed team is helping businesses hire top talent across 75+ ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Scrapping inheritance tax would cost the government almost £15bn a year in lost revenue by 2032, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that follows calls from Tory MPs for the main tax on inherited wealth to be abolished.The thinktank said the latest figures from HMRC showed fewer than 4% of estates paid inheritance tax (IHT) ...

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>The US Federal Trade Commission has accused Amazon of wielding monopoly power to inflate prices and stifle innovation in a landmark lawsuit taking aim at Big Tech’s dominance of the internet.The claim by the anti-trust watchdog, which was joined by 17 state attorneys general, follows a four-year investigation into complaints that Amazon and other giant tech groups abused ...