4 d. ago New US Open star is a DENTIST ranked 1173rd among Amateurs: 'Business is booming'

Matt Vogt, 34, is ranked 1173rd in the amateur game and turned his back on a chance at a pro career seven years ago - but he's made it into the 156-strong field for the tournament at Oakmont this week

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4 d. ago Matt Vogt: Business booming at my dental practice after US Open qualification

Vogt earned his place at the prestigious tournament when he swapped the drill for the driver and made it through qualification.

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1 week ago Highland heart, city strength: Scotland’s women in business shine at National awards

From the crofts of Sutherland to the boardrooms of Glasgow, Scotland’s female founders are proving that purpose-led business is booming north of the border. Three exceptional women have made it to the finals of the prestigious Enterprise Vision Awards (EVAS) - the UK’s largest celebration of women in business - and they’re putting Scottish enterprise firmly on the national map.

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2 w. ago California avocado growers feared Mexican imports would harm their trade. Instead business is booming

On a hillside northwest of Los Angeles, Andreas Tompros is replanting hundreds of avocado trees

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2 w. ago California avocado growers say Mexican imports have helped their sales

On a hillside northwest of Los Angeles, Andreas Tompros is replanting hundreds of avocado trees

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3 w. ago ‘People are buying crossbows faster than I’d like’ – how prepping went mainstream in Britain

Once, getting ready for the apocalypse was for the paranoid. Now, in the face of cyber-attacks, climate breakdown and nuclear threats, the UK government recommends it. Should everyone have a survival kit?This is a great time to be a shopkeeper, if that shop is for those worried about the breakdown of civilisation. “It started with Covid, and people weren’t looking for toilet rolls, put it that way,” says Justin Jones, who runs the online UK Prepping Shop, whose stock ranges from emergency food and wind-up radios to crossbows and body armour.Business is booming, as is the British prepping scene – 22,700 members of the UK Preppers and Survivalists Facebook group, 6,000 in the UK Preppers Club Facebook group. The scene is not as well-known as its US and Canadian equivalents, but that’s partly by choice. “Preppers are by nature a little bit secretive,” says Bushra Shehzad, who is researching prepping for a PhD in marketing and consumer behaviour at Newcastle University. “They are scepti...

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3 w. ago ‘People were buying crossbows faster than I’d like’ – how prepping went mainstream in Britain

Once, getting ready for the apocalypse was for the paranoid. Now, in the face of cyber-attacks, climate breakdown and nuclear threats, the UK government recommends it. Should everyone have a survival kit?This is a great time to be a shopkeeper, if that shop is for those worried about the breakdown of civilisation. “It started with Covid, and people weren’t looking for toilet rolls, put it that way,” says Justin Jones, who runs the online UK Prepping Shop, whose stock ranges from emergency food and wind-up radios to crossbows and body armour.Business is booming, as is the British prepping scene – 22,700 members of the UK Preppers and Survivalists Facebook group, 6,000 in the UK Preppers Club Facebook group. The scene is not as well-known as its US and Canadian equivalents, but that’s partly by choice. “Preppers are by nature a little bit secretive,” says Bushra Shehzad, who is researching prepping for a PhD in marketing and consumer behaviour at Newcastle University. “They are scepti...

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