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- “Zombie” firm numbers decreasing
- 1 in 4 Homebase stores to close
- 181 year old retailer, Osborne Stationers Limited has entered administration
- 2013 worst in Co-Op Bank’s history
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- 80{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} of businesses believe it will be best to remain in the EU
- A drop in Administrations, Creditors Voluntary Liquidations and Company Voluntary Arrangements
- A sign of things to come if Britain leaves the EU?
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- Administration – Guide to Fees
- Administration, Liquidation, Company Voluntary Arrangement Solutions in Burnley & Leyland
- Administrations and Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidations Reach Highest Levels for Several Years
- Advice for Consumers – Covid 19
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- All Link Directory
- Almost a million homeowners are experiencing problems paying off their mortgage
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- Anyone for Coffee?
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- Are “Pre Pack” Administrations a thing of the past?
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- Asda experiences biggest fall in its history
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- Average House Prices Push Past Record £300,000
- Average UK house price reaches £288,000
- Bad Week for Retail
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- Bank Economic Report / Personal Insolvency
- Bank holds UK interest rates at 0.5{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34}
- Bank Lending Set to Rise
- Bank of England eases capital requirements
- Bank Of England Leaves Interest Rates On Hold
- Bank of England subjects major lenders to further stress tests
- Bank of England to Cut Rates?
- Banking made easier for individuals facing bankruptcy regime
- Bankruptcy – Guide to Fees
- Bankruptcy numbers at lowest since 1998!
- Bankruptcy petition applications to be made online
- Barclays’ first no deposit, 100{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} mortgage since financial crisis ‘will help people buy property they can’t afford’
- BCC: Economic Growth Continues To Slow
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- Best Financial Directory
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- Blackpool FC faces Insolvency event penalty
- Blockbuster closing remaining stores
- Bolton Office providing Insolvency advice and support
- Bounce Back Loans
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- Brexit leads to increase in Administrations
- Brexit Would Cost UK Families £4,300 A Year
- Britain Facing Further Spending Cuts
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- Budget 2016: Money Advice Service to be abolished
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- Burnley & Leyland Insolvency Experts offer free Debt & Business Advice
- Burnley Debt Advice
- Burnley Insolvency Practice
- Burnley Insolvency Practitioners
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- BUSINESS LEADERS SET OUT THEIR PLANS FOR RECOVERY
- Business Strategy? SMEs dealing with plcs likely to suffer cash flow problems?
- Business Struggling Due to Coronavirus?
- Buy-to-let landlords likely to increase rents to offset higher costs – report
- Calais crisis believed to be a long term threat to British companies
- Can the UK compete in the manufacturing industry?
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- Carillion subcontractor? Insolvency Experts offering advice and support
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- Cashless Britain advances as contactless and debit cards thrive
- CBI President: Warning About Living Wage
- CBI reports companies preference to remain in the European Union
- CBI Warns of Danger to Growth Due to “Skills Shortage”
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- Centrica announce prospect of job cuts in the UK
- Changes to Insolvency Rules
- Charge Out Rates and Disbursement Policy
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- Cheap loans & 0{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} balance transfers coming to an end
- Chief Executive at Toshiba resigns following acknowledgement of overstated profits
- Chinese factory slowdown continues
- Chinese Stock Market Continues to Fall
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- Co-op rebuild will impact profits
- Comfort spending, impulse buys and lavish gifts: 6 ways mental health can get you into debt
- Company distributions in Solvent (MVL) Liquidation
- Company Insolvencies 2020
- Company Insolvency Statistics Released
- Company registrations and dissolutions
- Compensation claims involving Lloyds Bank exceed £13bn
- Complaints Over Payday Loans Triple In A Year
- Complaints soar regarding payday loan companies
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- Conduct reporting changes in Liquidation and Administration
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- Construction industry experiences worst month in 3 years
- Construction industry faces further pressure
- Consumer Borrowing Jumps The Most In A Decade
- Consumers to contend with 10 years of tight purse strings
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- Coronavirus Support Changes
- Corporate and Personal Insolvencies on the rise
- Corporate Insolvency & Governance Bill
- Corporate Insolvency Report – August 2020
- Corporate Recovery & RBS
- Costa Coffee continues to grow
- Costa Coffee sales up
- Could stale economy lead to an increase in Liquidations & Administrations?
- COVID19, PROFITABILITY, CASHFLOW AND INSOLVENCY
- Credit culture to mostly affect young people
- Creditor Guide to Company Voluntary Arrangement (“CVA”)
- Creditor Guide to Members’ Voluntary Liquidation (“MVL”)
- Creditor Guide to the Moratorium
- Creditor Voluntary Liquidation most common form of Corporate Insolvency
- Creditors Guide to Administration
- Creditors Guide to Bankruptcy
- Creditors Guide to Committees
- Creditors Guide to Compulsory Liquidation
- Creditors Guide to Voluntary Liquidation
- Creditors Voluntary Liquidation
- Creditors Voluntary Liquidation takes centre stage
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- Death Rate Rise At 63-Year High
- Debenhams Administration
- Debenhams remain optimistic about future
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- Debt spiraling out of control
- December Floods Still Affecting Businesses
- Declaring dividends during uncertain times – consider insolvency and other laws
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- Despite Economic Improvement, a Million Face Mortgage Misery
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- Directory World
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- Does stagnant inflation rate signal stalling economy and continued decline in insolvencies?
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- Economic Growth Accelerates
- Economic growth rate slows in the UK
- Economic growth to affect Liquidations and Administrations
- Economic Recovery
- Economic uncertainty, when will we recover?
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- Effect of Covid on Small Businesses – Increased Financial Pressure?
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- Employee Factsheet
- Employment levels expected to dip by a third in next decade
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- Energy companies admit doubling thousands of customers bills after embarrassing mix-up
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- Engineering giant Rolls Royce issues another profit warning
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- Euro economies grew approximately 0.3{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} in the second quarter
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- Fears of Recession Fade
- Fee Guides
- Fee increases to be introduced by the Insolvency Service
- Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announces new director
- Financial difficulty can lead to poor decision making
- Financial Difficulty, Debt Management or IVA?
- Financial Website Directory
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- Following appointment of textile company, THFR complete sale preserving 20 jobs
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- Ford announces job cuts
- Free Business Insolvency Advice / Services in Burnley & Leyland
- Free debt advice for businesses in Burnley
- Free debt advice from Licensed Insolvency Practitioners
- Free debt advice in Burnley
- Free debt advice in Burnley
- Free Debt Advice in Burnley and Leyland
- Free Debt Advice in Burnley- Bankruptcy/IVA
- Free debt advice in Leyland
- Free Insolvency Advice in Preston
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- Full-time work is no bar to poverty in UK
- Furloughed employees and Insolvency – The Debenhams case
- Further Concern about Support Scheme Fraud
- Further job losses expected in the UK Oil and Gas industry
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- Good start to the New Year on UK High Streets.
- Government Support for Business
- Government Support Reducing – Company Insolvencies Increasing to Exceed Pre-Pandemic Levels
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- Green shoots for Co-Op Group?
- Growth of property prices slowed in the year ending July
- Guide to Fees
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- Halifax Increases Mortgage Age Limit To 80
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- Hearts achieve CVA approval
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- Higher Tax Receipts Pose Dilemma
- HMRC Charging For Home Visits
- HMRC issue 3,000 petitions in a 12 month period
- HMRC Recovery Powers Strengthened
- HMRC to Attack Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- Homebuyers ‘Wait And See’ Amid EU Uncertainty
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- House prices continue upward trend
- House prices hold up in face of Brexit uncertainty with homes snapped up in record time
- House prices would slump with Brexit, claims Osborne
- House sales at an 18 month high
- Housing Market Surge?
- How will the financial crisis faced by Greece impact the UK?
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- HSBC launches Britain’s first fixed-rate mortgage below 1{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34}
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- Impact of International Finance Affects Ordinary Lives
- Impact to economy following Brexit decision
- In three months SMEs funding drops more than £400m
- Increase in Individual Voluntary Arrangements
- Increasing Financial Pressure
- INCREASING NUMBERS OF BUSINESS FAILURES AND PERSONAL INSOLVENCIES REPORTED IN MARCH
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA)
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) and unsecured debts
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement advice and Bankruptcies
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement advice in Leyland & Burnley
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement approval at our Burnley Office
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement numbers increase by 15.4{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34}
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement-challenge on grounds of material irregularity
- Individual Voluntary Arrangements increase in 2016
- Inflation rate remains constant at 3{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34}
- INSOLVENCIES LIKELY TO RISE AS ECONOMY EXPANDS
- Insolvency & Business Advice in Keighley
- Insolvency ? Business advice and health check needed?
- Insolvency advice and solutions in Burnley
- Insolvency Advice at our Burnley clinic
- Insolvency advice Burnley
- Insolvency Advice in Burnley
- Insolvency Fee increases
- Insolvency figures increase in seaside towns
- Insolvency Figures rise post Brexit
- Insolvency litigation exemption extension
- Insolvency Practice in Burnley
- Insolvency Practitioner in Burnley appointed Liquidator of Mad About Print Limited
- Insolvency Practitioners in Bolton
- Insolvency Practitioners in Burnley
- Insolvency Practitioners in Burnley
- Insolvency Practitioners in Keighley
- Insolvency Practitioners in Leyland
- Insolvency Practitoners in Burnley
- Insolvency Procedures in Burnley: Administrations, Company Voluntary Arrangements, Liquidations, Individual Voluntary Arrangements
- Insolvency Process changes to Legislation
- Insolvency Service meets targets
- Insolvency Service update
- Insolvency Solutions Advice in Leyland and the North West
- Insolvency Statistics – Quarter 3 2014
- Insolvency Statistics Show a Rise in Personal Insolvency Levels
- INSOLVENCY STATISTICS – APRIL 2021 Liquidations, Administrations and Company Voluntary Arrangements have decreased
- INSOLVENCY STATISTICS – FEBRUARY 2021
- Insolvency, inc Liquidation, Bankruptcy, IVA & CVA advice in Burnley
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- Interest only mortgagees must have long term repayment strategy
- Interest rates could be cut to new low
- Interest Rates Set To Be Cut To All-Time Low
- IP at our Burnley office appointed Liquidator of local engineering company
- Item Club Gives Warning About Chancellors Plans
- IVA less onerous than bankruptcy
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- IVAs and Personal Insolvency
- J Taylor appointed Liquidator of Acumon Services (UK) Limited
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- Job losses in UK Oil & Gas Sector could reach 120,000 by Dec 16
- Job Retention Scheme Changes
- Jobless Total Rises And Wage Growth Flat
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- La Tasca CVA approved by creditors
- Labour Financial Policy to be Unveiled
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- Landlord mortgages plummet by 85{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} after stamp duty changes
- Landlords victorious in landmark case
- Latest Insolvency Statistics Show Continued Decline
- Lead Generator Fined After Offering to Write Off Personal Debts
- Legal Protection for struggling businesses – Covid 19
- Lindt chocolate announce 9.4{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} growth in first 6 months of the year
- Lingerie retailer La Senza enters Administration for the second time
- Liquidation – Guide to Fees
- Liquidation – Insolvency Practitioner in Burnley
- Liquidation and Administration may be on the rise again
- Liquidation hit British Steel to be rescued by Chinese firm in £70m deal
- Liquidations – Insolvency Practitioner in Leyland
- Liquidations and Insolvencies Set to Rise as Covid Business Support Tapered Down?
- Liquidations, Administrations and CVAs in Keighley
- Litigation in Company Insolvency, Liquidation, Administration
- Litigation in Insolvency proceedings
- Lloyds Bank – More PPI Woes
- Lloyds Profits Fall To £1.6bn On PPI Charge
- Lloyds To Shed 3,000 More Jobs To Cut Costs
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- Loan for Limited Companies
- Local Authorities step up legal action for non domestic rates arrears
- London Climbs Table of Most Expensive Cities
- M & S face challenging times as non food sales continue to decline
- Major car hire firms across Europe are to act on complaints from customers
- Manufacturing in the UK facing gloomy outlook
- Manufacturing sector in UK shows signs of growth!
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- March Insolvency Statistics
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- Members Voluntary Liquidation
- Men Get Paid More After Having Kids
- Mental health and debt problems
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- Microsoft seeking LinkedIn acquisition
- Mid-Life Crisis? Nearly a Third of Over 50s in Debt
- Middle-class ‘face savings squeeze’
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- Monthly Insolvency Statistics and Stats – May 2021
- Monthly Insolvency Statistics Show a Rise in Liquidations.
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- More price cuts at Asda
- More tutorials coming soon!
- MORE UNCERTAINTY AND NERVOUSNESS AS STOCK MARKETS FALL
- Mortgage activity increases in anticipation of interest rate rise
- Mortgage market receives “gentle dampener”
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- Nearly 1 million over-75s are living in poverty
- Nearly one in six workers in England and Wales in insecure work
- Need advice? Visit our confidential Insolvency clinic in Burnley – free of charge
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- New buyers deserted housing market in April
- New Corporate & Insolvency Governance Bill 2020
- New operations leads to job cuts at RBS
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- Nick Griffin, BNP leader enters bankruptcy
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- North West Insolvency firm enters Administration
- North West News
- North West Still Sees High Personal Insolvency Rates
- Ofcom has advised BT that it must open up its cable network to its competitors.
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- ONS gives assurance that CPIH will be more accurate in the future.
- OpCapita a creditor of Comet
- Opting Out Guide
- Ordinary unsecured creditors to repaid in full in Lehman case
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- Our Burnley Insolvency Practice experiences surge in Liquidations and Voluntary Arrangement cases
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- Payday lender and director banned by FCA
- Payday loan calls soar
- Personal borrowings highest since 2007
- Personal Debt clinic in Burnley
- Personal Insolvency Cases have increased
- Personal insolvency is more prominent in coastal areas
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- PM’s ‘Help To Save’ plan for low paid workers
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- Poor UK retail growth indicates weakness in the economy
- Port Talbot prepares to hold nerve of steel as workers face financial distress
- Potential damage to company finance and business rescue?
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- Profits fall at BP amidst continued low oil prices
- Property price growth slows
- Property prices up by 1.7{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} in June
- Proposed ban on contract terms applied by commercial customers
- Protect yourself when purchasing online
- Quarter 2 Insolvency Statistics
- Quarter 3 Insolvency Statistics
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- R3 seeking government reforms
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- Rail construction company enters administration
- RBS Customers May Face Negative Interest Rates
- Reasons for Personal Insolvency Identified
- Recent efforts to revive Marks and Spencer have suffered a setback
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- Reduction of interest only mortgages reported
- Reports of growth in the retail sector throughout the UK
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- Restaurant group facing tough times
- Retail Sales Rise – 3.7{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} Up
- Retailer Clintons in survival talks
- Retailer insolvencies fall in 2014
- Retailer insolvencies reach 5 year high
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- Rising Confidence in British Business
- Rollercoaster of Risks Take Toll on UK Manufacturing
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- Savings Interest Rates Edging Upwards
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- Self Employment in the North West
- September 2020 Insolvency Newsletter
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- Significant change in employment levels envisaged for the retail sector
- Signs of growth in the car industry?
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- Slight Increase in Total Company Insolvencies
- Sluggish Economy has weakened the Services Sector
- SME Reluctance to Access Bank Debt May Hinder Growth
- SMEs optimistic
- SMEs whose funding applications are rejected by high street banks will be referred to alternative lenders
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- Sports bar Rileys in Administration
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- Sunnier times ahead for the economy
- Super-rich Caught Out by Social Media
- Supermarket growth rates reach lowest in 10 years
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- SWINGS & ROUNDABOUTS
- T H Financial Recovery represented at Burnley Expo
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- Tax crackdown
- Tax Freedom Day Is At Its Latest In 15 Years
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- Tesco continues to experience decline in profits
- Tesco continues to implement revival strategy
- Tesco sells South Korean business in order to improve balance sheet
- Tesco supermarket is struggling to turn fortunes around
- Tesco warns increasing tax and costs will test retailers’ resolve
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- TH Financial opens new office in Keighley
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- The Bank of England Governor has suggested possible interest rate increase
- The collapse of Carillion
- The Free Directory
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- Thorntons issues warning to shareholders following drop in shares
- Thousands of steel workers await outcome of Tata board meeting
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- Travel and Tourism industry set to suffer
- Travelling to Work Should Be Regarded as ‘Working Time’
- Treasury Sees 70{06aeb1921e0b802d2bd9c766bc98fb11cc6a46c2b0593ed9c88a0e29cf417a34} Boost in Inheritance Tax Take
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- UK banks approve fewer mortgages, new tax still fuelling demand
- UK Construction Industry Dips Into Recession
- UK economy grows faster than envisaged
- UK economy set for steady growth
- UK Government has published its “Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (CIGB)”
- UK house price growth remains stable as investor surge fades
- UK house price growth slows in April
- UK House Price Growth to Continue
- UK job market ‘in freefall’ after Brexit vote
- UK manufacturing sector continues to face challenging times
- UK nightclubs face financial pressure as around half close in last decade
- UK retail sales suffer biggest fall in six months, no EU effect reported
- UK Service Sector continues to thrive
- UK shoppers kept spending in July despite Brexit uncertainty
- UK to avoid another recession
- UK trade gap with the rest of world widens
- UK Unemployment Rate Remains At Decade Low
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- Unemployment At Lowest Level In Eight Years
- Unexpected drop in retail sales throughout the UK
- Vaccine Review
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- View our latest newsletter – issue 11
- Virtual meetings
- Voluntary Arrangements – Guide to Fees
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- Weak pound ‘could raise supermarket prices’
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- Website Privacy Policy
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- When a member of a partnership becomes bankrupt
- WHERE NOW FOR COMPANIES, BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS OVER THE COMING MONTHS?
- Where now for M&S’s non food sales?
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- Will EU exit mean higher food prices and staff shortages?
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- With reports of slow growth, what’s next for the retail industry?
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- Wristband Is Shocking Way To Control Spending
- Wrongful Trading – Covid 19
- Wrongful Trading prior to Insolvent Liquidation
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- £ drops against $ as concerns grow about Britain’s EU Membership
- “BREATHING SPACE” FOR INDIVIDUALS DEALING WITH PERSONAL DEBT PROBLEMS