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Multiyork has made more than 100 staff redundant and left nearly 500 jobs hanging in the balance, as its administrator scrambles to find a buyer for the furniture maker.The Norfolk-based firm has told 112 staff they have lost their jobs, and will be paid until

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A German father is campaigning online to stop Lego-style toy Nazi soldiers being sold on Amazon.Manuel Hegel’s petition says the toys “represent officers, soldiers etc of the Waffen-SS and thereby trivialise National Socialism”.The toys are sold by a

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The owner of Westfield shopping centres is being bought for $24.7bn in a deal which will see the malls launched across Europe.French property group Unibail-Rodamco is offering $7.55 a share for the Australian business.Westfield Corporation has shopping centres in the

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Media playback is unsupported on your device About half a million children and young people gamble every week, a Gambling Commission report is expected to show.The regulator has warned that children as young as 11 are using so-called skin betting websites, which let

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A new economic action plan for Wales over the next decade has been unveiled.It includes simplifying financial support for business, a reduced number of priority sectors and a regional approach to economic development.But firms wanting grants will have to commit to

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Media playback is unsupported on your device It is easy to underestimate Amla Ruia.But at 71, this mild-mannered Mumbai matriarch is one of the most prolific dam builders in the world, and at the forefront of India’s fight against drought. Each year more than

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Buying food for the whole family or paying for a doctor to see one child? Paying for your children to use a toilet facility or buying much needed medicines for yourself? These are some of the choices facing mothers living

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Spending £100 a month on rent in London secures floor space equivalent to a small garden shed, compared with nearly five times that in parts of northern England, new research shows.Data released to BBC News shows cheaper properties to rent in the capital “simply

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One of the UK’s most important oil pipelines is being closed after a crack was discovered in Aberdeenshire.The Forties pipeline carries crude North Sea oil across land for processing at Grangemouth.The crack was discovered last week at Red Moss near

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With plans mooted to move part of the Bank of England from London to Birmingham, could the second city’s landmark bull be set to give the charging bovine of Wall Street a run for its money?Probably not. But the move – put forward by Labour – would

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