3 d. ago More than a third of women face gender discrimination while running a business

A poll of 500 female small business owners revealed that 35% have experienced gender discrimination while running their businesses, with many feeling they have to prove themselves more than their male counterparts

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3 d. ago One in three women suffer gender discrimination running their business

More than a third of women have experienced gender discrimination while running their business.

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4 d. ago Family firms need four relatives of all ages to thrive, study finds

Family-run businesses say they need four relatives on average – across different age groups – to thrive and survive.

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5 d. ago Meghan labels her old brand name American Riviera Orchard a ‘word salad’

The Duchess of Sussex renamed her business As Ever after running into trademark issues.

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6 d. ago We make thousands extreme cleaning drug dens and crime scenes

Lauren Baker and Jasmine Layton both run their own biohazard cleaning businesses clearing out drug dens and crime scenes - and say they wouldn't want to do anything else.

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1 week ago Entitled CEO slammed for 'appalling' photo gloating over economy passengers from first class lounge

Jake Bass, who shares tips on social media for running online businesses, shared a series of photos taken from a first class Emirates journey he'd taken.

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2 w. ago Sweet shop police crackdown: Hundreds of businesses are raided and dozens of people arrested in massive operation against criminal gangs running American

Officers from 19 police forces across England knocked on the doors of 265 businesses as part of Operation Machinize, a mammoth crackdown on high street money laundering.

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2 w. ago Where are the stars of Benidorm now? From an Emmy winner who works with Prince William to running a fish bait business, how the cast have taken VERY different paths

After news that ITV bosses are in talks to reboot the show, a host of fan favourites could be returning to screens for the first time since 2018 when the show ended.

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3 w. ago ‘Something to be proud of’: how an Irish town got a sewage makeover – and stopped discharging its waste into the sea

Arklow’s sleek new wastewater treatment plant is a collaborative triumph between engineers, contractors and architects Clancy Moore. And it’s amazingly unsmelly “Who’d want to live next to a sewage treatment plant?” asks the architect Andrew Clancy, who with his business partner Colm Moore runs the Dublin-based practice Clancy Moore. Who indeed, yet they have had to find a way to overcome precisely this difficulty. In the coastal town of Arklow, 40 miles south of the Irish capital, they have designed a wastewater facility that seeks to act as a landmark for the town, an agent of its renewal and growth, and a good neighbour to the homes and shops and places of work that it is hoped will be built alongside. The plant consists of two calm oblongs of mysterious scale, their long horizontals echoing the line where the sea meets the sky, plus a third more domestic structure alongside, all in a marine blue-green colour you could call pale teal.The project is in illustrious company. The tra...

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3 w. ago Turkish barber shops police crackdown: Cops raid dozens of businesses being run as front for money laundering and seize hundreds of thousands of pounds in dirty cash

Bodycam footage shows West Mercia officers smashing their way into the businesses which are increasingly used as fronts by criminal gangs.

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3 w. ago Virgin says it has ‘green signal’ for running trains through Channel Tunnel

Sir Richard Branson’s company said there are ‘no more major hurdles to overcome’ for it to launch services rivalling Eurostar.

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3 w. ago Lowest earners ‘running out of options’ ahead of April bill hikes

Citizens Advice said those on the lowest incomes were ‘already stretched to breaking point’ even before ‘awful April’ bill rises take effect.

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4 w. ago Inside abandoned funeral home with mortician's chemicals and white hearse parked outside

The funeral home operated as a family-run business for 40 years before suddenly closing - fascinating new photographs show the abandoned site left almost entirely untouched

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4 w. ago Swindon business owner to run London Half Marathon for local charity

Swindon business owner to run London Half Marathon for local charity  Yahoo Eurosport UK

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