London Borough of Harrow has been criticised by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman for failing to properly remedy a complaint by apologising to a resident.
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The FINANCIAL — Argos reveals the top gifts that the nation missed out on as children, with Game Boy, Mr Frosty and Sega Mega Drive making the top ten. Some of the gifts adults wished they hadn’t unwrapped as kids was also revealed,
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The FINANCIAL -- Direct-to-consumer sales worth £96bn for UK manufacturing in 2020, and set to grow to £120bn in 2023. 57% of consumers now choosing to buy direct from manufacturers. 85 million packages will be sent direct-to-consumer by manufacturers this year as logistics companies also
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The FINANCIAL -- At the end of March 2020, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) welcomed the decisions of the boards of the large UK banks to suspend dividends and buybacks on ordinary shares until the end of 2020.
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Temporary closures, a shift to online shopping and reduced travel meant the first wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) had an enormous impact on business – but some industries fared far worse than others. The economic downturn resulting from coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions has been
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The FINANCIAL -- London Stock Exchange welcomes Conduit Holdings Limited to the Main MarketLondon Stock Exchange welcomes Conduit Holdings Limited (Conduit), the Bermuda based start-up global reinsurer, following its initial public offering on the main market under the ticker “CRE”.
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The FINANCIAL -- UK signs Economic Partnership Agreement with Kenya, benefiting UK-Kenya trade which was worth £1.4 billion in 2019. The UK has signed an Economic Partnership Agreement with Kenya. The deal was signed in London by International Trade Minister Ranil Jayawardena and
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The FINANCIAL -- Past epidemics and pandemics have had lasting effects on the structure of the population. The impacts have been seen through changes in births, deaths and migration. Here, Sarah Crofts from the ONS Centre for Ageing and Demography, considers the
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The FINANCIAL -- In England and Wales, the stillbirth rate decreased from 4.0 stillbirths per 1,000 total births in 2019 to 3.9 in the first three quarters (Jan to Sept) of 2020, in line with the long-term trend.The proportion of all preterm
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The FINANCIAL -- Analysis of the Met Office's UK Climate Projections reveals that climate change is expected to decrease markedly the number of so-called ice days, where the daily maximum temperature doesn’t exceed 0.0 °C.
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