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• Don’t stop at Nissan – we all need comfort letters now | Polly Toynbee

  31-10-2016 21:28
  
  If ministers are willing to protect car firms from the ravages of Brexit, why not all of us who were lied to?Nissan stays, and the country breathes a great sigh of relief. Hundreds of thousands of jobs may now be saved and British car manufacturing rescued from Brexit calamity. The symbolism of Nissan disinvesting from Sunderland and turning away to France or Spain would have been shattering politically and crippling economically, a great clanging shutter coming down on us all. Any government wo
  
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• City news: Tesco, UK exports, Stock Spirits and Majestic Wine

  31-10-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OVER 125 institutional funds have filed a £100million-plus claim for damages against Tesco following accounting irregularities.
  
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• The Investment Association step up pressure on FTSE bosses' to justify bonuses

  31-10-2016 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FUND managers are stepping up the pressure on Britain’s top companies to justify boardroom pay by telling them to publish how much their chief executives make compared with the average employee.
  
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• The battle over Uber and driverless cars is really a debate about the future of humanity | Paul Mason

  31-10-2016 17:52
  
  Uber drivers were right to claim employment rights. But in a world where driverless cars may soon make them redundant, we face long-term dilemmas about the systems we choose Sometime during the 21st century you will stagger out of a club at 3am and hail a taxi. The vehicle, no longer allowed to loiter in busy areas, will pop out of a stack nearby, find its way to you and honk. You and your drunk companions will stammer out your destinations until they flash up correctly on a screen. And you will
  
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• Eurozone economy grows just 0.3% in Q3 showing EU hit WORSE than UK by Brexit

  31-10-2016 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EUROPE's economy squeezed out of growth of just 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of the year, despite mammoth efforts by the European Central Bank to kick-start expansion.
  
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• France increases aggressive campaign to lure MORE big business from Brexit Britain

  31-10-2016 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FRANCE is to launch an aggressive campaign to lure business and jobs out of Britain after the UK's exit from the European Union .
  
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• The living wage is catching on. Now fair pay must become the norm | Gavin Kelly

  31-10-2016 16:00
  
  From Ikea to BrewDog, Britain’s good employers see workers as a resource to be invested in, not a disposable commodity. The rest must follow suitToday’s announcement of this year’s increase in the living wage – to £9.75 an hour in London (previously £9.40) and £8.45 in the rest of the UK (£8.25) – will help the growing numbers benefiting from the fair pay benchmark. For a full-time worker it amounts to earning an extra £5,000 a year in
  
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• What are the highest paid jobs of 2016 in the UK?

  31-10-2016 15:10
  
  The ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings lists the UK’s highest salaried careers. If you fancy one of the Top 10 jobs, we have tips on how to do it
  Have you got one of the best paid jobs in the UK? The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released its Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2016, and we’ve looked at the top 10 highest paid jobs in the country and what you need to do to get one of them. To obtain the data, the ONS surveyed a random sample of 1% of all the workers wh
  
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• Russia's FINANCIAL CRISIS: Moscow launches desperate austerity programme

  31-10-2016 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RUSSIA has revealed a dramatic austerity programme in a desperate bid to shore up the economy and quell public anger, amid the country's worst financial disaster in years.
  
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• Heathrow begins pumping millions into uk supply chain after expansion backing

  31-10-2016 13:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MULTIMILLION-pound boost to UK businesses was triggered by the Government's backing for Heathrow expansion, according to the airport.
  
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• Bank of England Governor Mark Carney 'set to remain in his post'

  31-10-2016 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is ready to serve his full eight-year term, defying pro-Brexit campaigners demanding his resignation, it has been reported.
  
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• Leaving UK would hit Scottish financial services industry harder than Brexit, finds ... - Holyrood.com

  31-10-2016 09:45
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  Leaving UK would hit Scottish financial services industry harder than Brexit, finds ...
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  Independence would hit Scotland's £8bn-a-year financial services industry harder than Brexit, according to a new report. Jeremy Peat, the former chief economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, and Owen Kelly, former head of industry body Scottish Financial ...en meer »
  
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• Santander current account customers first to see interest rate cut

  31-10-2016 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SANTANDER current account customers with will see their interest rate halved from tomorrow – as other providers prepare to follow suit with an onslaught of rate cuts.
  
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• Shadow business minister: 'we have to stay in the single market'

  31-10-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bill Esterson discusses Brexit fallout, the proposed small business commissioner role and his attempts to build regional support for entrepreneursIt goes without saying that the shadow minister for business, energy and industrial strategy is concerned about the ramifications of Brexit, which he says are affecting SMEs already. “Small businesses are telling me they are already losing contracts, they’ve already stopped recruitment,” Bill Esterson says. “That’s an earl
  
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• How can I help my daughter choose a career?

  31-10-2016 08:00
  
  She is interested in a range of subjects from journalism to Greenpeace, but can’t decide which path to choose
  Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights. Here are two similar dilemmas – what are your thoughts?My daughter is a bright young lady but doesn’t know what de
  
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• Calling time on Beer Hawk after a 10-day delivery delay

  31-10-2016 07:00
  
  The website promised I would have my beer in three days, so why am I still waiting?I ordered and paid in full for a mixed case of beer from Beer Hawk online. It promised three-day delivery, but I still didn’t have my beers 10 days later, and the order tracker showed that my case had not even left the warehouse. Replies from Beer Hawk are sporadic, but occasionally it responds to emails and promises that the beers will be sent out imminently, but they never are. Looking at the most recent p
  
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