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The UK arm of eBay paid only £1.6m in corporation tax last year, even though its US parent had total revenues from its UK operations of $1.32bn (£1bn).Ebay’s UK accounts record only £200m in revenues, which came entirely from a Swiss parent firm, seemingly for

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The Warwickshire town of Royal Leamington Spa has been ranked the happiest place to live in Britain, in a survey which saw several spa towns make the list. Harrogate, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Epsom also featured in the top 10 “happy at home” index

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A price cap on energy bills proposed by the prime minister last week is unlikely to take effect before winter.Theresa May had vowed to revive a plan to cap charges for an extra 12 million consumers.However, Ofgem said it would have to wait for legislation to be in

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Facebook and Twitter could be asked to pay for action against the “undeniable suffering” social media can cause, the culture secretary has said.Cyber-bullying, trolling, abuse and under-age access to porn will be targeted in plans drawn up by Karen Bradley

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Debates about schools in richer countries are often about the politics of priorities, what subjects should be given most importance, who needs extra help and what needs more public spending.But for families in many developing countries questions about education can be

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Two decades at the helm of global entertainment giant Walt Disney might seem a strange apprenticeship for taking over a lower-level English football club, but Michael Eisner insists it is the latest logical move in his high-flying business career. The 75-year-old

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Since last year, when we were all made aware of the UK’s unrecycled cup mountain, some of us have found it hard to buy a takeaway coffee without being wracked with guilt.In the UK, we throw away an estimated 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups every year. In

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A catalogue of errors in awarding a contract to clean up 12 UK nuclear sites ended up costing the taxpayer £122m, official auditors have found.The deal to decommission the ageing Magnox sites was originally intended to last 14 years, but was cut short after legal

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The profitability of the average UK farm could fall by as much as half after Brexit, new research suggests.The report, by the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), says the “worst-case scenario” would cut average farm profits from

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