Author: Nathan Bissitt

What would you do if you won the lottery? Buy a new house, a sports car, or travel the world perhaps?But how many of us would use our winnings to set up a charity?That is exactly what Rachel Lapierre, a former Miss Quebec, did back in 2013. The Canadian always loved

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Flat-pack or modular homes have traditionally been used to build low-cost housing, but now Filipino entrepreneur Robbie Antonio is using prefab technology to build luxury homes designed by world-famous architects – at low cost. In making these houses more

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Cecile Reinaud is the founder of Seraphine – the UK’s first line of fashionable maternity wear. Coming to London from France, she started as a one-woman company and now has global sales of £20m and employs 100 people.Her biggest problem was learning how to

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The former owner of the collapsed airline Monarch says it has a “moral obligation” to help repay the taxpayer if it profits from the sale of assets.The government spent £60m getting passengers home after the UK’s fifth biggest airline went bust.Now,

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When you make a purchase with a credit card, how does the business owner trust you’ll pay them back? Find out how the idea of a credit card came about. From invention for “the professional man” to wallet staple for many – has it become too easy

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A Facebook executive has denied the social network uses a device’s microphone to listen to what users are saying and then send them relevant ads.Rob Goldman, the tech giant’s vice-president of ads, was responding to a tweet by PJ Vogt, the presenter of a

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More companies should publish details of their gender pay gap in a renewed effort to improve equality in the workplace, Theresa May has said.Big companies will soon be required to publish pay gap data, but the prime minister now wants smaller firms to play their

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Until recently, new car sales in Britain were booming. In 2016, a record 2.7 million were registered. It was the fifth year in succession that the market had grown.Now, things look very different. In September, new registrations fell by 9% compared with the same

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