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Train passengers are facing more disruption, with only 20% of services set to run due to strike action. Half of Britain’s lines will close on Thursday and Saturday as more than 45,000 rail workers walk out in a dispute over pay and terms. Some routes will have no services, and…

Iceland will offer customers interest-free loans to help with their food shop amid soaring inflation. The supermarket trialled the scheme in Huddersfield and Rhyl, Denbighshire, before rolling it out across Wales, where more than 500 customers used it. Managing director Richard Walker said loans – provided by charity-owned lender Fair…

What does success look like or mean to you? Success, even in the business world, looks different to different people. Adam Clarke, Macropay Founder and CEO, believes that the first key to business success is the ability to define it for yourself. Adam Clarke shares his insights on business success…

Dubai is undergoing a digital revolution fueled by the ambitions of investment firms such as the Dubai Investment Fund (DIF) and the UAE government’s support. In 2001, Microsoft established a regional base in Dubai. The tech giant was persuaded to settle in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to a…

The researchers and inventors of this world have developed machines to be useful to humans in private and professional lives, in recent years probably one of the most groundbreaking developments is AI (artificial intelligence). In this way, humans not only transferred a core element of their being into machines, but…

Entain, the gambling firm behind Ladbrokes and Coral, could lose its licence to operate in the UK after it was told to pay a record £17m settlement over its inaction as individual customers spent hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Gambling Commission highlighted a series of failings in Entain’s online…

Digital trade barriers risk fragmenting the world into regional and national “splinternets” unless governments agree on a shared approach to data regulation and transfers. Financial services lobby TheCityUK yesterday warned that digital trade has become increasingly difficult and costly, with restrictions on international data transfers more than doubling in the…

More UK companies are set to enter administration this year than last year, analysts have warned. Risk consultancy Kroll said yesterday that it predicted that the UK could face up to 895 company administrations in 2022, compared to just 659 in 2021. So far there have been 522 administrations this…

The staffing agency industry’s trade body has hit out at Harrods after the luxury department store threatened to take advantage of new laws allowing it to break strikes using temporary workers. Harrods told its staff it is willing to use temporary workers to keep its shop running after employees at…

The British government is planning to launch formal dispute proceedings against the European Union as soon as this week. The UK thinks Brussels is breaking their agreed post-Brexit trade agreement by excluding Britain from three international science projects, according to Bloomberg News. Britain is furious that the EU refuses to…