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Sukhinder Singh is the CEO of the Whisky Exchange, one of the UK’s largest online retailers of fine wines and spirits. What is now his business began as his passion – he began collecting miniature bottles of whisky after helping out at his parents’

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Like other great success stories, Sheldon Fireman’s started with a sense of ambition, an understanding of the local culture, and nothing to do on a Friday night. Hanging out in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York in the 1960s, Mr Fireman –

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Would you like to pay less tax? Make a sandwich: specifically, a “double Irish, Dutch sandwich”. Suppose you’re American. You set up a company in Bermuda and sell it your intellectual property. It then sets up a subsidiary in Ireland. Now, set up

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BT has offered to provide the infrastructure for 99% of premises in the UK to get broadband speeds of at least 10 megabits per second by 2020.It means government-imposed rules to allow those living in remote areas to demand broadband would be unnecessary.The universal

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]An underground railway is far from the most unusual method the royal mail has used to deliver the post in years gone by. Source: BBC News

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Fairer pay for women must be backed up by stronger policies at work, according to Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg.But the firm’s chief operating officer, in an interview for BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, said the first step is to “start paying

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Justin Schuble is only 22, but he has been called “one of the most powerful new players” in the Washington DC food scene.Schuble shares how his Instagram account evolved into a full-time career, with restaurants begging him to showcase their

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The Scottish government has called for Scotch to be defined in UK law in order to protect whisky exports after Brexit.Scotland’s Economy Secretary Keith Brown has written to UK ministers calling for protection of the Scotch whisky industry.The industry is worth

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Universities face a new blow to their finances after the main pension fund deficit soared to £17.5bn.The Universities Superannuation Scheme now has the largest pensions deficit of any UK pension fund after it increased by £9bn last year.One expert said student fees

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Tax breaks for UK farmers should be reviewed, the head of a group advising the environment secretary has said.Economist Dieter Helm said the current system of taxpayer-funded support was extremely wasteful and the industry suffered from “subsidy

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