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01.02.26 - 18:00
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UK hospitality firms demand more help with business rates amid questions over Heathrow discount (The Guardian)
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Airports identified as biggest winners of government's £4.3bn support package with Heathrow alone taking £900m discountStruggling hotels, restaurants and nightclubs are calling for more financial help with business rates after it emerged that Heathrow is among the biggest beneficiaries of a multibillion-pound package of state support.The UK's biggest airport is in line for a discount of nearly £900m on its rates bill over the next three years. That is a fifth of the total £4.3bn “transitional relief” fund announced by the chancellor in the budget for all businesses facing big bill increases. Continue reading......
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01.02.26 - 17:00
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Betfred brothers top the UK′s biggest taxpayers list with £400m bill (The Guardian)
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Tim Martin makes Sunday Times Tax List top 10, paying £200m while Harry Styles is the highest-contributing celebritySir Tim Martin, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Erling Haaland and Mo Salah are among the UK's 100 biggest taxpayers, according to new rankings.The billionaire brothers behind gambling giant Betfred, topped the Sunday Times 2026 Tax List. Fred and Peter Done paid £400.1m in tax, about half of which relates to gambling duty from their betting shop empire. Continue reading......
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01.02.26 - 16:00
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One in seven food delivery businesses in England are ′dark kitchens′, study shows (The Guardian)
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University researchers say growth of the hidden fast food industry may pose risks to public healthOne in seven food businesses on major delivery platforms, including Deliveroo and Just Eat, is now a “dark kitchen”, a university study shows.The findings, which shine a light on the scale of the hidden takeaway industry, found that 15% of all online food retailers in England were dark kitchens. Continue reading......
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01.02.26 - 14:15
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Convicted Terrorist Who Plotted To Bomb British Consulate Now Standing For Election In UK (ZeroHedge)
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Convicted Terrorist Who Plotted To Bomb British Consulate Now Standing For Election In UK
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
Shahid Butt, a 60-year-old Muslim activist with a conviction for conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen, is now gunning for a seat on Birmingham City Council.
Yes, really.
Convicted in 1999 and sentenced to five years in a Yemeni prison, Butt was found guilty of forming an armed gang to target the consulate, an Anglican church, and a Swiss-owned hotel.
'Can you see what's happening to our country!'@PatrickChristys reacts to Shahid Butt, an activist running for election in Birmingham, who's been convicted of terrorism.
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Butt claims the charges were bogus, insisting he was forced to confess and that they weren't terrorism-related. Yet reports link him to an armed Islamist jihadi grou...
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01.02.26 - 14:00
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Apartments sold and rented (Globes)
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A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Netanya, Petah Tikva, Rishon Lezion, Modi’in, Bat Hefer, and Ma’alot Tarshisha....
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01.02.26 - 13:24
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The long-term cost of high student debt in the UK is not just for graduates | Heather Stewart (The Guardian)
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Labour's changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which its opponents are likely to reap at the ballot boxStudent loans: 'My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I'm paying'“It is not right that people who don't go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry row about student loans.But if something is “not right” here, it's the complex and confusing loan system, and the debt burden borne by some recent graduates of English and Welsh universities. Continue reading......
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