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		<title>IR35 looks set for the scrapheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 16:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PCG (the professional association supporting freelancers, contractors and consultants) was established to fight the introduction of IR35, so today’s announcement that it is to be replaced will be welcomed by freelance workers throughout the UK.
It is a triumph for common sense over political dogma.
In the Coalition’s full programme for Government, published today (20th May) the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Budget 2010 - Measures For Supporting Business and Growth</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2010/391/uk-budget-2010-measures-for-supporting-business-and-growth</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Treasury has released further information following the Chancellor&#8217;s Budget Statement (Wednesday March 24th 2010). The following is an excerpt from the notice that outlines the particular measures for supporting business and growth.
 
The Government took decisive action to support the economy during the financial crisis and its aftermath. As the UK emerges from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contactless arrives for business customers</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2010/363/contactless-arrives-for-business-customers</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barclays has become the first bank in Europe to launch commercial contactless debit cards to its business customers. From March, all Barclays Business customers receiving new or re-issued cards will find that they come with contactless technology as standard. This enables them to pay for low value transactions by holding the card over a reader, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work begins on biggest council house building programme in two decades</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2010/357/work-begins-on-biggest-council-house-building-programme-in-two-decades</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Housing Minister John Healey has hailed the start of the biggest council house building programme in nearly two decades as work began today on the first of over two thousand new homes to help tackle waiting list pressures.
Mr Healey saw work get underway today in Tyneside on the first new site for Government funded council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alistair Darling confirms return to 17.5 percent VAT on January 1st 2010 in Pre-Budget Report</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/334/alistair-darling-confirms-return-to-175-percent-vat-on-january-1st-2010-in-pre-budget-report</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer,  Alistair Darling, introduced a temporary lower rate of VAT in last year&#8217;s pre budget report.
There was some speculation that he might have extended this reduction beyond the original term. However, in today&#8217;s pre-budget report statement to the House of Commons, he said:
I can confirm that VAT will return to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIT Team Uses Multi-Level Marketing Principles to win DARPA $40,000 Treasure Hunt in just 9 hours</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/341/mit-team-uses-multi-level-marketing-principals-to-win-darpas-40000-treasure-hunt-in-just-9-hours</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that the  MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that required participants to locate 10 large, red balloons that had been placed at undisclosed locations across the United States. The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Futuristic Intel Computer Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built, Consumers Interact with Their PCs and Personal Devices</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/350/futuristic-intel-computer-chip-could-reshape-how-computers-are-built-consumers-interact-with-their-pcs-and-personal-devices</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Processors could become smart enough to let PCs use &#8220;vision&#8221; to interact with people.
Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or &#8220;single-chip cloud computer,&#8221; that rethinks many of the approaches used in today&#8217;s designs for laptops, PCs and servers. This futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Freelancers Day website goes live</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/247/national-freelancers-day-website-goes-live</link>
		<comments>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/247/national-freelancers-day-website-goes-live#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Professional Contractors Group’s (PCG) dedicated National Freelancers Day website is now live and visitors to www.nationalfreelancersday.org.uk can find out more about the special Day which PCG has been organised in a drive to encourage everyone to acknowledge all freelancers, consultants and contractors and the contribution they make to the UK economy.
National Freelancers Day will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Export Credits Guarantee Department helps deliver the goods for Cleveland mine</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/245/export-credits-guarantee-department-helps-deliver-the-goods-for-cleveland-mine</link>
		<comments>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/245/export-credits-guarantee-department-helps-deliver-the-goods-for-cleveland-mine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[All 1,000 workers at a potash mine in the North York Moors National Park will be working hard this autumn, after Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) and UK Trade &#38;Investment (UKTI) joined forces to help their company secure a major export order.
Cleveland Potash Ltd (CPL) feared it may have to make some tough cost-cutting choices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graduates Given A Flying Start</title>
		<link>http://biznewz.co.uk/business_news/2009/242/graduates-given-a-flying-start</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduates thinking about starting their own business will get a flying start as successful entrepreneurs offer advice to help them make it happen, Minister for Higher Education, David Lammy announced today.
Building on the Success of the Flying Start scheme launched in 2004,  the Government is investing an further  £ 1 million so 5,000 graduates will  [...]]]></description>
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