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Chancellor Philip Hammond has told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that businesses are holding off from investing in the UK because of uncertainty about Brexit. “It is absolutely clear businesses where they have discretion over investment, where they can hold

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In Zimbabwe, basket weaving has been a part of many people’s lives for decades. Now a project with India’s National Institute of Design is helping weavers earn more from their work. The BBC’s Taurai Maduna went to Zimbabwe’s Honde valley for

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Thousands of US brides-to-be have been left in limbo after dressmaker Alfred Angelo filed for bankruptcy.The company closed its 60 stores without warning. It also supplies dresses to 1,400 other stores.In a statement on its website, the company apologised for the

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Some EU leaders may be prepared to compromise on the free movement of people to help Britain stay in the single market, Tony Blair has said.He told the Today programme one option was for Britain “staying within a

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Young families were particularly hard hit by an “abrupt” slowdown in living standards in the year before the general election, a think tank says.The Resolution Foundation found that average income growth halved to 0.7% during that period compared with the

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Carl Rodrigues says that his family and friends all thought he had lost his mind.”Everybody thought I had gone completely nuts,” he says. “They were saying ‘what’s wrong with this guy? Is he having a hippy moment?’.”Mr

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Visa is waging a war on cash, with a scheme in the US encouraging small businesses to ditch it as a form of payment. Chief executive Al Kelly told investors last month that the company was “focused on putting cash out of business,” and is considering

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