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Autumn Budget 2025: Your detailed summary
Rachel Reeves’s second Budget boosts welfare spending paid for through stealth tax rises, and taxes on property, savings and dividends. Income tax rates remain unchanged, but frozen thresholds for a further three years and wealth-focused levies do the heavy lifting. ...
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Autumn Budget 2025: Your detailed summary
Rachel Reeves’s second Budget boosts welfare spending paid for through stealth tax rises, and taxes on property, savings and dividends. Income tax rates remain unchanged, but frozen thresholds for a further three years and wealth-focused levies do the heavy lifting. ...
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Exercise Executive Leader
We wanted to make you aware that Birmingham University Officers’ Training Corps are delivering an employer engagement event ‘Exercise Executive Leader’ to employers within the West Midlands area. It is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 13th May at Venning Barracks in...
A Big Season for Finch
As Worcestershire County Cricket Club begin the 2025 season, player Adam Finch has been sharing his reflections and his hopes for the current season, with students at the University of Worcester. Adam, himself a graduate of the University, said studying had helped him...
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Law firm expands Private Client offering with appointment of new partner
Worcestershire law firm mfg Solicitors has strengthened its Private Client department with the appointment of a new partner. Solicitor Peter Tyrrell, who has 18 years’ experience of advising and supporting a range of businesses, has joined mfg and will work closely...
DRPG TAKES CLIENTS BACK TO COLLEGE FOR BIGTALK 2023
DRPG, the global creative communications group hosted its annual thought leadership event ‘BigTalk’ on Thursday 28th September with over 150 of its top clients invited to the 4.2 acre studio complex in Hartlebury, Worcestershire. Communications professionals from over...
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Quick guide for businesses to the Chancellor’s Summer Statement
On 8th July 2020 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered an economic ‘Summer Statement’ which contained an economic plan to help the UK economy recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the second wave of government money that has been released to react to the impact of coronavirus.
Reporting outbreaks of coronavirus (COVID-19)
Newly updated guidance for businesses and organisations on how to recognise, contain and report incidents of coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Brexit: 26 unanswered questions for business with fewer than 100 days to go
The British Chambers of Commerce has published a critical update of its Brexit guidance dashboard containing 26 key questions that remain unanswered with just 98 days to go until the end of the Brexit transition period. The leading business group published the...
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Brexit: 26 unanswered questions for business with fewer than 100 days to go
The British Chambers of Commerce has published a critical update of its Brexit guidance dashboard containing 26 key questions that remain unanswered with just 98 days to go until the end of the Brexit transition period. The leading business group published the...
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Businesses targeted by VAT Deferral phishing scam
UK business owners have been targeted by a new phishing scam that attempts to gain sensitive information, including payment details, by impersonating Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Health and safety spot checks and inspections during Coronavirus
The Health and Safety Executive is carrying out spot checks and inspections on all types of businesses in all areas to ensure they are COVID-secure.
Our inspectors make thousands of visits to businesses every year, and we are making calls so we can give expert advice on how to manage the risks and protect workers, customers and visitors. We are also working closely with local authorities, assisting them in the sectors they regulate such as hospitality and retail.
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Business Hoping For End To Rate Rises
Commenting on the Bank of England’s latest rise in the interest rate to 5.25%, Vicky Pryce, BCC Economic Advisory Council member, said: “Businesses across the UK will be fervently hoping that today’s rise in interest rates is the last they will see. “While many...
OSPREY APPROACH LAUNCHES SECOND WEBINAR SERIES
Independent legal software provider Osprey Approach is delighted to announce the launch of its second webinar series, which aims to help SME law firms establish good business habits for long term success. Following positive feedback for Osprey’s first webinar series,...
Welcome new Members!
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest Members! A Plan Insurance – A-Plan provide “car, home, van” and a range of other insurance services. They are passionate about client service, and believe that the best way to support you and deliver real...
Serco Restart Scheme celebrate 2-year Anniversary
The Restart Scheme is part of the Government’s wider ‘Plan for Jobs’ programmes to help people develop their skills so they can find long-term meaningful employment. Serco has been chosen by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to deliver the Restart Scheme in...
The Stourbridge News and the Halesowen & Dudley News is delighted to be launching the Dudley Borough Community Awards in partnership with the University of Worcester.
We hope the awards will celebrate all the wonderful things that are happening across the borough, from businesses to charities , schools to pubs, these awards seek to recognise those who go the extra mile to serve our communities. Launching the awards, editor of the...
Exhibition Explores Depiction of Dementia in Children’s Literature
A new University of Worcester exhibition aims to shed light on how children’s literature approaches and represents dementia. Jean Webb, Professor of International Children’s Literature in the University’s School of Humanities, has drawn on her research into this...
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