Business Taper Relief
Is the Chancellors reduction in taper relief to small businesses finally the admission that Labour cares only about the public sector.

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Dominance of UK Supermarkets and Retailers
The dominance of UK supermarket/retailers Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons are estimated to control in the region of 75% of the £120bn UK food/grocery market.

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Business Sales
Business Sales:

How will Chancellor Darling’s proposed 18% taper relief affect business sales.

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Wimpey cancel Leeds City Centre Development
£100m development of apartments, retail, restaurants and office space cancelled.

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EMI Chairman Guy Hands may bid for Chrysalis
EMI Chairman Guy Hands may bid for Chrysalis music.

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Carlsberg/Hieneken Takeover S&N for £7.6bn
S&N finally agrees to Carlsberg/Heineken for £7.6bn take over.

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Business Rates Plan

A committee of MPs recommendation to the government to allow councils to levy a supplementary business rate

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Is The Bank of England to lose its Independence
Alistair Darling seems to have back tracked on one of Labour’s much regaled flagship policies of independence for the Bank of England

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Nokia Symbian Takeover
June 2008
Nokia increase the pressure with its £209m takeover of the Symbian mobile phone operating system group.

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Bill Gates and Microsoft
June 2008
Bill Gates To take a back seat at Microsoft

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Do the Big Companies suffer proportionally worse to bad news in the economy??

June 2008
Companies such as Marks & Spencer, HBOS Bradford & Bingley etc seem to endure far more negativity from the business media if their results are less than good.

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Argos Workers Ready To Strike

July 2008 Argos distribution centres may suffer major disruption as workers vote for industrial action in a pay dispute.

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Indymac Bank hit by the Crunch
July 2008
Credit Crunch problems grow as one of the US principal mortgage lenders buckles from the strain.

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Co-op buy Somerfield Supermarket
Agreement has been reached between the The Co-op and the Somerfield supermarket chain in a £1.56 billion deal.

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Stock Markets

16 October 2008

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Building Societies

16 Oct 2008

Building Societies & their members still in the money.

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Barclays

31 Oct 2008

Barclays raise £7.3 billion from Arab investors.

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UK:Recession could be disastrous

3 November 2008

EC says recession will be hardest in UK.

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Record Low Base Rate

5 March 2009

The Bank of England cut base rate to a record low of 0:5%

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Prime Minsiter Demands Banks pass on Lower Rates in Full

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Can General Motors Survive??

13 Nov 2008

Can General Motors Survive??

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Post Office Government Backdown.

3,000 Post Offices branches have been saved.

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P.M. & Chancellor fume over UK Banks

The Toxic Twosome

Reportedly the Prime Minister Gordon Brown & his chancellor Alistair Darling are flummoxed & irate at the UK banking sector.

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Leeds Rhinos win business award.

Leeds Rugby scoops yet another top award, this time in the world of business,

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Economy Worst for 100 Years Claims Balls

Normanton parachutist & Schools Secretary Ed Balls joined the economic doom mongers

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Deflation v Inflation

Deflation on the way, what are the consequences.

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TaxpayersallianceUK Jamie Oliver spoof video

Watch the TaxpayersallianceUK Jamie Oliver spoof video of the European Fudge Common Agricultural Policy

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Tax Payers Alliance Green Tax Calculator

The Tax Payers Alliance have come up with an excellent item which allows you to calculate just how much your Green Tax contributions are.

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South West shops trade in Euros

25 April 2009

UK shops trade in Euros is it legal?

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Water Company/Utilities

12 June 2009

The UK Government are considering a relaxation of the restrictions on the merger of individual water companies.

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