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		<title>Audio Business Podcast - SME tips on how to challenge new business rates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From April 1st business rates are set to rise by an average of 5.77% across England and Wales. Experts warn that the increase, coupled with the painfully slow rates appeals process to challenge business rates, is stifling business growth in the UK. The estimated total amount of savings due back to UK businesses from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclays Apprenticeship Programme offers 1,000 places for young people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thousand young people in the UK with no prior work experience or qualifications are being offered their crucial first career opportunity from today.
Applications are now open for the Barclays Apprenticeship Programme offering 1,000 places for young people to build a career in banking. The first Barclays apprentices to join the £20m programme will start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2012/756/barclays-apprenticeship-programme-offers-1000-places-for-young-people</link>
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		<title>Prince’s Trust calls upon businesses to help grow new Job Ambassador scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HRH The Prince of Wales will visit the headquarters of his youth charity The Prince’s Trust today to announce 100 new jobs for unemployed young people - who will then help a further 100,000 young people to find work.
The new scheme will see young people, who have faced long-term unemployment and transformed their lives with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2012/724/prince%e2%80%99s-trust-calls-upon-businesses-to-help-grow-new-job-ambassador-scheme-scheme</link>
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		<title>Summary of UK Chancellor&#8217;s Autumn Statement 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chancellor has today delivered his autumn statement to Parliament, alongside the publication of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s updated forecasts for growth and borrowing. He announced permanent reductions in spending to ensure that the UK meets its fiscal targets, using some of those savings in the short term to fund infrastructure investment to generate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audio Podcast - Finance directors ignoring employee health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Wilson and James Glover of Simply Health discuss why employers are still to be convinced of the business case for investing in health benefits and links between wellbeing and productivity.

Companies are struggling to show they care about their staff, according to a new report which reveals that employees believe employers now care less about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2011/619/finance-directors-ignoring-employee-health</link>
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		<title>Poll shows Freelancers are happier with their health, their financial situation, and their prospects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Britain’s 1.4m freelance workers love life, are happier with their health, their financial situation, their prospects and their wife, husband or partners!
A ComRes survey published today (Nov 22nd) shows that nearly three-quarters (73%) of the 1,624 polled had actively chosen to become freelancers as a long-term career option in a survey to celebrate National Freelancers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2010/548/poll-shows-freelancers-are-happier-with-their-health-their-financial-situation-and-their-prospects</link>
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		<title>National Union of Teachers: Education Cuts Harm Us All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commenting on the recent Comprehensive Spending Review, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said;
&#8220;The cuts announced in the Government’s spending review are a retrograde step and will have a devastating impact on vital public services, including education.
&#8220;The Government may talk about protecting schools, but schools are not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2010/530/national-union-of-teachers-education-cuts-harm-us-all</link>
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		<title>Business community is polled on their view of the contribution of freelance workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the alarm goes off in the morning are you a sunshine, happy person or do you pull up the duvet in the hope of escaping the dark, cruel world outside?
As a freelancer do you know how your skills are valued? If you engage freelancers in your company or organisation, do you welcome a talented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2010/517/business-community-is-polled-on-their-view-of-the-contribution-of-freelance-workers</link>
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		<title>No Sacred Cows in Pre-Budget Report Please - British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Economic Forecast - December 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Economic Forecast - December 2009
Ahead of the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has today published its latest Economic Forecast. The business group, which calls itself &#8220;the National Voice of Local Business&#8221;, has made downward revisions to its GDP expectations for 2009 and 2010, but is more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/328/no-sacred-cows-in-pre-budget-report-please-british-chambers-of-commerce-bcc-economic-forecast-december-2009</link>
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		<title>Corus Steel Plant Mothballed in Northeast England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An international consortium’s breaking of a binding contract has led Corus, Europe&#8217;s second largest steel producer, to partially implement the proposal announced in May 2009 of mothballing some of the facilities belonging to the Teesside Cast Products (TCP) business in northeast England.
TCP’s Redcar Blast Furnace, Lackenby steelmaking and the South Bank Coke Ovens will be [...]]]></description>
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