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• Asda chair: Government should reform benefits systems to fix UK’s worklessness crisis

  15-09-2024 22:52 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Asda chair Lord Rose has urged the Government to reform the benefits system to get more people into work.
  According to the Office for National Statistics, 2.8m people of working age say long-term sickness means they are unable to work, up from 2.2m before the pandemic.
  Lord Rose, a former M&S boss and Ocado chair, told The Telegraph: “We must increase productivity. We must tackle these 2.8m people who are economically inactive. We must make sure that we’ve got the benefit system
  
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• Asda chair: Government should reform benefits system to fix UK’s worklessness crisis

  15-09-2024 22:52 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Asda chair Lord Rose has urged the Government to reform the benefits system to get more people into work.
  According to the Office for National Statistics, 2.8m people of working age say long-term sickness means they are unable to work, up from 2.2m before the pandemic.
  Lord Rose, a former M&S boss and Ocado chair, told The Telegraph: “We must increase productivity. We must tackle these 2.8m people who are economically inactive. We must make sure that we’ve got the benefit system
  
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• Artisans turn to ancient recipes for UK cheese revival

  15-09-2024 11:00
  From Wensleydale to north Wales, small-scale producers get a local flavour from pasture and techniquesThe hidden irony of A Grand Day Out, the animation that launched Wallace and Gromit, is that a 1950s Yorkshireman in search of a cracking wensleydale might just as well have looked for it on the moon.Wensleydale, like most British cheeses other than cheddar and stilton, was almost destroyed in the postwar drive towards mass production. Fortunately, some of the centuries-old recipes for those los
  
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