<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Small businesses are in a David and Goliath battle for talent. Research has found that almost half of SME workers are looking for a new role, compared with 39% of those at large businesses. Such a talent drain could have a huge impact on
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>UK car production rose 13.1% in February, up to 69,707 units, according to the latest figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Factories made an additional 8,050 cars, with volumes buoyed by an easing of supply chain shortages –
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Today’s government announcements on energy security and climate change are inadequate and risk failing to meet UK climate targets, says Friends of the Earth. These announcements are likely to be part of a revised net zero strategy, which the government is required to publish
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Eamonn Holmes has lost an appeal over a tax ruling associated with his earnings as a presenter on This Morning. Upper Tribunal judges upheld a previous decision that the 63-year-old broadcaster should pay tax as an ITV employee for his work on the programme,
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Twitter has reversed course on plans to limit presence on its “for you” timeline to paying users only, with Elon Musk claiming he “forgot to mention” that other users would be visible as well. When the company’s owner first announced the plan on Tuesday
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Mortgage approvals rose for the first time since August in a sign that the “worst is in the past”, Bank of England figures show. The number of mortgages approved for house purchases beat economists’ expectations to reach 43,500 in February, up from 39,600 in
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>The government will not reverse post-financial crisis banking regulation, Jeremy Hunt has said, amid growing concerns that Britain is loosening post-Brexit rules for the City. The chancellor told the Commons’ Treasury select committee that a decision on whether to relax the ring-fencing between banks’
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>The Treasury is almost £2 billion in profit on loans it made under the Help to Buy house purchase scheme, which formally comes to an end tomorrow. Since it was launched in 2013 — by George Osborne when he was chancellor — more than
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>The European Union has watered down plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2035 in a move that campaigners believe will influence UK policy. Officials in Brussels caved into demands by Germany to dilute the ban by allowing cars powered
The Philippines is readying an insurance plan that will protect the Southeast Asian nation from infrastructure losses caused by natural disasters, seeking to better respond to climate change risks. The government will put in place a national indemnity insurance program to provide financial protection for strategically
BABAEngineers of AboitizPower (from left to right) Nes Pascua, Allyson Milan, and Arline de GraciaAboitizPower Corporation (AboitizPower), one of the Philippines’ largest power producers, celebrates National Women’s Month with #BABAEngineer, a campaign that salutes its female engineers.Being a woman in a male-dominated field has its
EIA.EMB.GOV.PHMANILA – For thousands of years, the Filipino Dumagat-Remontados Indigenous people have cultivated their lands on the Sierra Madre mountain range. Soon, hundreds of hectares of their forests could be swallowed by a major new river dam.Officials say the Kaliwa Dam is vital to supply the water-stressed region around the capital Manila, but Indigenous groups