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• Britain is booming! Financial boost with lower-than-expected borrowing - Express.co.uk

  23-01-2018 21:15
  Express.co.uk
  Britain is booming! Financial boost with lower-than-expected borrowing
  Express.co.uk
  BRITAIN'S finances were boosted last month by much lower-than-expected state borrowing taking the total for the financial year so far to a 10-year low, official figures showed today. By Alison Little. PUBLISHED: 19:50, Tue, Jan 23, 2018 | UPDATED: 20 ...en meer »
  
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• London's 65th annual toy fair – in pictures

  23-01-2018 18:49 via theguardian.com
  London’s Olympia hosts the annual fair, which is organised by the British Toy and Hobby Association and showcases more than 260 brands and products from UK and international manufacturersContinue reading...
  
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• Meet the duo selling edible insects to the masses

  23-01-2018 16:22 via theguardian.com
  From mealworms and buffalo worms to crickets and grasshoppers, insects have become something of a food trend in the UK, with many now enjoying them as the tasty and sustainable food source they are.Eat Grub is one of the successful businesses helping to bring edible insects to the masses, selling snacks such as sweet chilli and lime crunchy roasted crickets and cricket-powered energy bars. Rhik Samadder met up with its co-founders, Shami Radia and Neil Whippey, to find out how they are growing t
  
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• Rupert Murdoch’s Sky bid is not in public interest, says regulator

  23-01-2018 15:57 via theguardian.com
  CMA rules against 21st Century Fox’s bid to take control of 61% of Sky it does not already ownRupert Murdoch’s £11.7bn bid to take full control of Sky could be blocked after the UK competition regulator said the deal would give his family to much control over UK news media. The Competition and Markets Authority said 21st Century Fox’s bid to take control of the 61% of Sky it does not already own was not in the public interest due to concerns about media plurality. Continu
  
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• Sainsbury's to axe thousands of store management roles

  23-01-2018 13:56 via theguardian.com
  Retailer says cost-cutting drive will affect thousands of roles but headcount will stay the sameSainsbury’s is stripping out thousands of management jobs from its stores to save money as it faces an intensifying grocery price war.On Tuesday, Sainsbury’s staff were told that it plans to axe the roles of deputy manager, department manager, team leader and store supervisor, a shake-up that puts thousands of jobs at risk. It is replacing deputies with a smaller number of operations manag
  
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• Why is the US stock market so high – and is it justified? | Robert Shiller

  23-01-2018 12:24 via theguardian.com
  It’s not the Trump effect or tax cuts. Americans seem to have a strong desire to own capitalThe level of stock markets differs widely across countries. And right now, the United States is leading the world. What everyone wants to know is why – and whether its stock market’s current level is justified. We can get a simple intuitive measure of the differences between countries by looking at price-earnings ratios. I have long advocated the cyclically adjusted price-earnings (CAPE)
  
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• Cybercrime: £130bn stolen from consumers in 2017, report says

  23-01-2018 11:38
  Of the 978m global victims of cybercrime last year, 17m were Britons targeted by phishing, ransomware, online fraud and hackingHackers stole a total of £130bn from consumers in 2017, including £4.6bn from British internet users, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Norton.More than 17 million Brits were hit by cybercrime in the past year, meaning the nation, which accounts for less than 1% of the global population, makes up almost 2% of the 978 million global victims of
  
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• Why was I humiliated by Waitrose self-scan check?

  23-01-2018 09:11
  The Quick Check system was quick and really good … until the security reviewI have just been humiliated by Waitrose after self-scanning a big shop in my local branch, when I was “randomly” picked for a re-scan. I admit I didn’t read the terms and conditions. I saw a display in store a few months ago about self-scanning and so I registered and started shopping. It has been really good, making shopping faster as I don’t have to re-pack. But I had never heard of havin
  
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• Snow falling on leaders: 'exceptional' winter weather delays VIP arrivals to Davos

  23-01-2018 01:51 via theguardian.com
  Heaviest snowfall for 20 years disrupts traffic, slips up business chiefs and threatens to block the landing of VIP helicoptersHeavy snowfall has hampered the arrival of world leaders, business executives and charity bosses at this week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.The exclusive ski resort was snow-bound on Monday after the heaviest precipitation in two decades.Continue reading...
  
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