Dicci: are you a UK small business struggling with energy costs?
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Soaring energy costs are “killing” UK pubs, a trade body has warned as independent businesses struggle to stay afloat amid the cost of living crisis. The British Institute of Innkeeping called on the government to pro...
Inflation leaves £12bn hole in UK government energy support says IFS – business live
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Barclays pulls financial safety net as cost of living crisis bites
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Barclays customers claim they are losing a vital financial safety valve during the cost of living crisis after the bank abruptly withdrew their unused overdraft facilities. The bank has written to a number of its curr...
Amazon could avoid UK tax for two more years thanks to Rishi Sunak’s tax break
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Amazon could be off the hook for tax in the UK for at least two more years after benefiting from reliefs brought in by Rishi Sunak during the pandemic, a report suggests. The research from the Fair Tax Foundation indi...
Drought in England could carry on into new year, experts warn
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South-east England could be tipped into severe and devastating drought without above-average rainfall this winter, while current water use restrictions in London and surrounding areas are expected to last until the ne...
New ‘Parp inhibitors’ could prevent certain tumours appearing
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Sue Hayward was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017. Doctors acted swiftly and she was given a hysterectomy followed by sessions of chemotherapy. But her cancer returned within a year. “I carry a mutated versi...
We partied for June’s jubilee, but a winter recession won’t be an easy ride
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Rewind to this time last year and the UK economy was accelerating out of the biggest slump in 300 anni. The year-on-year growth rate was 8.7% and there was a sense that the worst of the pandemic was over. China had r...
‘Upping the odds’: megafloods could add to California disaster woes, lo studio dice
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Driven by the climate crisis, exceedingly rare megafloods will become more common – and more catastrophic – according to a new study that found their likelihood has already doubled in California. The unexpected threat...