Author: Nathan Bissitt

Construction giant Carillion is to go into liquidation, threatening thousands of jobs.The move came after talks between the firm, its lenders and the government failed to reach a deal to save the UK’s second biggest construction company.However, the government

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An mezzanine ceiling has collapsed at the Jakarta stock exchange building (IDX), with reports that at least a dozen people have been injured.Images on social media show pieces of ceiling and broken furniture in the lobby of the building in the Indonesian capital, amid

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Black was the most popular colour for new car buyers in the UK in 2017.According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, more than 500,000 black cars (20.3% of new sales) were sold last year. White was the most popular colour in 2016, but has dipped to

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Chilean officials have accused the World Bank of treating the country unfairly for several years. Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz, tweeted “fake news was becoming fake statistics”.He was responding to an interview given by the bank’s chief economist,

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Japanese giant Softbank is planning to list its mobile phone business in Tokyo and overseas, according to the Nikkei newspaper. The listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and possibly in London aims to raise 2 trillion yen ($18bn; £13.1bn).Softbank confirmed in a

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Scotland’s economy could be £12.7bn a year worse off under a so-called hard Brexit, according to analysis by the Scottish government. The figure is contained in a paper on the impact of UK withdrawal from the European Union, to be published later.It calculates

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Male working patterns have seen a big shift towards part-time roles, a study has found.Almost one in eight men work part-time today, compared with fewer than one in 12 two decades ago, according to the Resolution Foundation

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Carolyn Radford went from the world of fashion to be chief executive of League Two football club, Mansfield Town. six years ago It was making deep annual losses and her mission was to stem them. To fit in with the sport’s male-dominated world, she says she first

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