UK Business News

John Hutton has outlined his vision of a new era of power generation for the UK, which he
likens to the North Sea oil boom.
But unlike invisible, non-invasive offshore drilling, Nuclear Reactors are always local to
quite a few people even if located in areas of sparse population.
In a reverse of Malthusian gloom predicted prior to the [...]

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It’s an odd day for public opinion when people get all concerned about UK household names like Jaguar and Land Rover being sold off to Tata, a business from an emerging economy which just happens to be part of what used to be the British Empire.
Especially odd when it’s being sold by an already foreign owner that [...]

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Some of the UK’s top Universities have taken a defensive stance against intensive, longer
term-time business degrees aimed at appealing to employees and employers.
By running 48 week courses and bringing down course durations from three to two years the government aims to give business what it wants.
However, most unis are set to resist this innovation, most [...]

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Data value management firm, DQM Group, has found that as many as 1 in 6 Britons has suffered data fraud in the last twelve months. The highest risk category is young male professionals living in London.
But what is bad for the public is equally bad for business. As well as the bad PR there are [...]

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Ian Pearson, Science and Innovation minister, has praised UK industry for making great
advances in innovation in the last decade but feels UK business is at risk of losing out to international competitors.
In his speech to the UK Technology Innovation and Growth forum, he said “We must unlock the talent and become an innovation nation.”
In becoming a [...]

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