The Bank of England is ruminating on interest rates and is expected to announce around midday that rates will stay at their current rate 3.75% Last month there was an expectation that this time round, given inflation is creeping down slowly, rates would be cut to encourage growth. However, the Middle East crisis has changed all that. The Bank could cut rates to encourage growth. It could put them up to attempt to stop
Updated MoU will focus on enhanced maritime cooperation, cyber defence, air domain information sharing, and increased joint procurement. Comes as the Prime Minister meets Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Cork for the UK-Ireland Leaders’ Summit. The UK and Ireland will be better protected against common threats as the two nations sign a refreshed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance bilateral defence cooperation. The Secretary of State for Defence and Irish Minister for Defence Helen McEntee
Britain’s traditional jewellers — long the glittering anchors of our high streets — are quietly disappearing as rising costs, falling footfall and online competition squeeze the small craft businesses that have served communities for generations.Jewellers in the UK are the jewel in the crown of the high streets yet they’re facing a quiet crisis as small and micro businesses struggle. With wages, materials, taxes, business rates and energy bills all rising on the one
Traditional networking events may still fill diaries, but growing evidence suggests that authentic, relationship-driven connections — not transactional handshakes — are what truly unlock long-term business opportunity.If you’re a dedicated fan of networking and have already taken Umbridge at the title, I don’t blame you. If you go out of your way to network and meet people, don’t stop doing that but don’t stop reading either. I’ve just had my thinking around networking challenged
Britain could be sleepwalking into a youth jobs crisis just as new employment reforms take effect, with retailers warning that rules designed to protect workers may end up pricing thousands of young people out of the workplace. It’s not just Business111.com that’s concerned. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has called on the government to make sure that the reforms which start to come into force on the 1st of April don’t decimate our younger