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• Sick DPD couriers face £150 charge if unable to find cover

  03-03-2017 20:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Drivers who deliver for M&S, John Lewis, Amazon and others say they sometimes force themselves to work when ill
  Couriers who deliver parcels for Marks & Spencer, River Island and John Lewis face being charged £150 a day if they cannot find cover when they are ill.Drivers for the multinational company DPD, which also makes home deliveries for Amazon and Asos, told the Guardian the contractual threat meant they sometimes forced themselves to work when sick. Continue reading...
  
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• Sainsbury's to cut 400 jobs in shakeup of operations

  03-03-2017 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Workers to be offered redundancy or other roles as supermarket scraps price controller position and absorb task into other jobsSainsbury’s is cutting 400 jobs, with 4,000 other employees facing a major change to their working hours as part of a shakeup of how the retailer runs it supermarkets.Sainsbury’s is to scrap the role of price controller within its supermarkets, which will lead to hundreds of jobs being cut. Price controllers ensure that the price labels on supermarket shelves
  
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• The Crusader: Customer challenges dealer over £11,000 SECOND-HAND motor’s breakdown

  03-03-2017 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BUYING a used car shouldn’t mean a customer gets a second rate service, but that’s what can happen many claim when complaining about their lot to Crusader.
  
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• Let’s move to Hither Green, London: ‘Good schools, train links and parks’

  03-03-2017 17:29
  
  It’s not cheap, but the lesser of all local property price evilsWhat’s going for it? You’ll often find me red-faced in Manor House Gardens, striding the circuit with a pushchair, shushing at any noise-emitting entity who dares come close. Hither Green is one of my prime get-the-kid-to‑sleep routes. It combines, in one handy neighbourhood, everything me and the nipper need: preprandial children’s library, postprandial ice-cream at the gardens’ cafe, an ace play
  
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• A Mini part's incredible journey shows how Brexit will hit the UK car industry

  03-03-2017 13:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Multiple cross-Channel road trips highlight how carmakers and suppliers in Britain and the EU are intertwinedIf there is just one anecdote that succinctly sums up the problems that Brexit and the threat of tariffs pose to the UK car industry, it is this: the story behind the crankshaft used in the BMW Mini, which crosses the Channel three times in a 2,000-mile journey before the finished car rolls off the production line.A cast of the raw crankshaft – the part of the car that translates th
  
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• UK economy cooling after post-Brexit vote growth, surveys show

  03-03-2017 12:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Latest surveys bolster expectations that Bank of England will leave interest rates at their record low for rest of the yearBritain’s economy is cooling fast, according to the latest surveys of the services, manufacturing and construction sectors, bolstering expectations that the Bank of England will leave interest rates at their record low for the rest of this year and beyond.Coming days before Philip Hammond’s spring budget, the figures add to evidence that the economic strength see
  
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• Record 910,000 UK workers on zero-hours contracts

  03-03-2017 11:55
  
  Nearly 1m people on controversial terms but growth slowdown points to ‘zero-hours juggernaut’ grinding to a halt, say expertsThe number of people on zero-hours contracts in the UK has hit a record high of 910,000 but there are signs the trend may have reached a peak after Britain’s decision to leave the EU, according to a leading thinktank.
  The figures for the final three months of 2016 represented a rise of more than 100,000, or 13%, compared with the same period in 2015, the
  
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• Charisma isn't elusive, train yourself to become magnetic

  03-03-2017 08:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Charm and self-belief comes easily to some, but all entrepreneurs can teach themselves to win over clients and attract new customersWhat do entrepreneurs Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson and Elon Musk have in common? Apart from their huge net worth, they are all highly charismatic. But what exactly is charisma? The charismatic can infect others with their own enthusiasm. They convince us, not only of their own self-belief, but make us feel more confident in ourselves too. As an entrepreneur, chari
  
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• UK's appetite for gourmet takeaway fuels restaurant delivery boom

  03-03-2017 08:01
  
  Brands such as Deliveroo, UberEats and Just Eat buoyant as demand for home-delivered, restaurant-quality meals feeds £3.6bn industry“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food,” the late celebrity chef Paul Prudhomme once said. But these days, you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your living room, as more and more restaurants offer take-out options to cash in on the growing market for fine dining at home.The demand for home deliveries of ready-to-eat food
  
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• How can I explain that my startup firm fails to put food on the table?

  03-03-2017 08:00
  
  I’m worried how it will look on my CV if I wind up my food-and-drink business because it’s not making enough money Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremyadvice 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.I took voluntary redundancy to start up my own business in the food and drink sector. Unfortunately, four years on (a
  
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• A former coach house one room wide – in pictures

  03-03-2017 08:00
  
  You could drive a horse and cart into this west London property – and that’s exactly what the previous owners would have done Continue reading...
  
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• Cheers! Pub saved by its customers rated best in the UK

  03-03-2017 01:01
  
  Camra’s top accolade goes to George & Dragon, in Hudswell, Yorkshire, which was rescued from bankruptcyA small north Yorkshire village pub which was saved by its local community after going bankrupt has been named the best in the UK.The George & Dragon, in Hudswell, closed in 2008 after the owners went bust at the height of the recession, but regular customers formed a co-operative to buy and refurbish the premises. The pub reopened in 2010.Continue reading...
  
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