That default is now being questioned. Rents in many industrial and light commercial precincts have climbed faster than wages, lease terms have become less flexible, and owners are starting to ask whether the money leaving each month could be building something they actually own. This article looks at that questionContinue Reading

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One option that’s often overlooked is turning old gold, such as broken jewellery, forgotten coins, or gold bullion, into immediate working capital. The process can be simple and transparent if you follow a few practical steps. Before We Start: Finding the Best Way to Fund Your Startup If you areContinue Reading

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok edited an image of a woman to remove her hijab when asked to do so, according to tests by the Guardian’s US operation. The newspaper asked ChatGPT, Grok, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude to take the veil off an AI-generated image of a woman wearingContinue Reading

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GB News narrowed its losses in the seven months to the end of December 2025 as revenue rose 16 per cent, despite a 63 per cent fall in visitors to its websites and apps that the broadcaster attributed to artificial intelligence summaries of articles. Accounts filed at Companies House onContinue Reading

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More than a third of the owners of small and medium-sized businesses say they “accidentally” fell into running a company, according to research published by Santander UK. The bank’s poll of 1,000 business owners found that 35 per cent described their route into entrepreneurship as accidental, and that 62 perContinue Reading

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Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, is helping to organise a government-backed “innovation nation” summit with chief executives in Manchester on 9 October, as Labour seeks to lift the UK’s competitiveness. The event is billed as a “landmark gathering to turn ambition into action [with] the country’s most influential CEOs,Continue Reading

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