The warning lights for Britain’s small businesses are beginning to flash. Conflict in the Middle East is already pushing up fuel prices, threatening fertiliser supplies and setting off a chain reaction that could ripple from farms to restaurant tables and high streets. A single shipping route — the Strait of Hormuz — carries aContinue reading “Fuel, Fertiliser and Fear: Small Firms Brace for Price Storm”
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Now’s not the time to refuse to take cash: don’t give consumers a reason not to shop with you.
High Street shops are increasingly accepting only card or phone payments, taking security, costs and the way customers are behaving into account. This comes from research among small businesses by Link which runs the UK’s biggest cash machine network. About three quarters of the businesses asked still accept cash but of the other quarterContinue reading “Now’s not the time to refuse to take cash: don’t give consumers a reason not to shop with you.”
UK Minister Visits Manila for 80th Year of Bilateral Ties
Copyright and all rights reserved – .gov.uk UK Indo-Pacific Minister Seema Malhotra visited Manila to deepen cooperation, marking 80 years of ties and advancing work on security, growth and climate. From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Seema Malhotra MP Published 5 March 2026 Manila – UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific Seema Malhotra visited Manila to deepen UK-Philippines cooperation. This comes as the two countriesContinue reading “UK Minister Visits Manila for 80th Year of Bilateral Ties”
Precision at pace enables safer military airdrops
Copyright and all rights reserved – .gov.uk ACE developed a data gathering and analysis proof of concept for more accurate air drops that lays the groundwork for predictive modelling. From: Accelerated Capability Environment Published 3 March 2026 Impact: A secure data capture and analysis proof of concept for more accurate air drops that laysContinue reading “Precision at pace enables safer military airdrops”
Ditch the business cards — networking as we know it is dying
While ministers hail G7-leading growth, fresh small business data shows slowing sales, cautious hiring and mounting pressure on retail and hospitality margins. What’s really going on in the small business economy? Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash While the Chancellor applauded the UK’s growth in the Spring Statement today, as the fastest in theContinue reading “Ditch the business cards — networking as we know it is dying”