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• Iceland boss stands behind farmers after inheritance tax raid

  02-02-2025 11:36 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Iceland boss Richard Walker has stood behind farmers following the government’s proposed inheritance tax changes, claiming the Treasury “has parked its tractor in the wrong place”.
  The supermarket’s managing director criticised Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to reduce the relief entrepreneurs can claim when passing their company on to their children with any assets above £1m subject to a 20% tax.
  Walker told The Telegraph: “The Treasury is right to
  
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• ‘Greed and money over community’: in Stornoway, locals are divided over Tesco’s Sunday opening

  02-02-2025 10:00
  
  The Hebridean island’s shops have remained firmly closed on the Sabbath for decades – but now the supermarket giant has bucked the trendIn the town of Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, a Tesco supermarket looms large. Overlooking the local Sea Angling Club and hefty circular storage tanks belonging to the town’s fuel depot, its blue and red logo is one of the first sights to greet visitors and residents alighting from the ferry.Until recently, if you had wa
  
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