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                    <title><![CDATA[UK Businesses Urged To Be More Transparent With End Of Year Accounts]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Claire West

Euler Hermes, the UK's largest credit insurer, is urging UK companies to consider how they plan to release their 2009 company accounts which will inevitably give a picture of company performance at the depth of the recession, and may impact future credit. 

September represents the looming deadline for...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[London Cycle Hire Scheme App Available For Users Of Android Powered Phones]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Jason Theodorou

London launched a cycle hire scheme on Friday, designed to make transport in the city more environmentally friendly in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. 

The scheme, championed by Mayor Boris Johnson, will make 5,000 bicycles available from 315 docking stations across London. There is already an app available...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Banking Figures Confirm Decline Of Small Business Lending]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Claire West
 
The Forum of Private Business is responding to the latest figures from the British Bankers' Association (BBA), which show that lending to the UK's small firms is in decline.
 
The banking trade association's figures indicating that new loans to small firms increased by &pound;75 million between May...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Rise In Late Payment Demands Support Cable's Green Paper]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Claire West

Lovetts Plc, one of the UK's leading law firms specialising in commercial debt recovery has welcomed the Government's Green Paper designed to address the lending crisis to small firms.  The firm saw late payment demands to secure outstanding debt rise by almost a quarter (24.6%) year on...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Keep Interest Rates Low To Counter Threats To Recovery, Says BCC]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Claire West

Commenting on the choices facing the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its August meeting next Thursday, David Kern, Chief Economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "Despite good news that the UK's GDP growth accelerated in the second quarter, there is no room for complacency".

"The tough emergency...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Walt Disney To Sell Iconic Film Studio Miramax For $600 Million]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Jason Theodorou

Walt Disney has announced that its Miramax film division will be sold for $660 million to private equity investors group Filmyard, ending its 17-year ownership of the iconic film studio which brought the world hits such as 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Good Will Hunting'.

Miramax has over 700 titles in...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[UK Watchdog Clears Google Of Searching Out Personal Data In Open Wi-Fi Connections]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Jason Theodorou

Google was cleared of charges that it picked up the personal details of internet users when its Google Street View Cars accrued data sent over open wireless networks. Google 'mistakenly' gathered the information when logging wi-fi hotspots for one of its services.

The search giant was vindicated by the...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[New Partnership Between Cass Business School And Your Business Your Future Will Help Business Owners Grow Their Businesses And Drive Economic Growth]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Jason Theodorou

Cass Business School and Your Business Your Future, the UK's leading specialist in the design and delivery of programmes for ambitious owner managers, have launched an exclusive partnership to help small business owners grow their businesses and create jobs.

Vince Cable, Business Secretary, recently acknowledged that smaller businesses will...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[CBI Sees Government Welfare Reform As 'Step In The Right Direction']]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Claire West

The CBI today commented on the launch of 21st Century Welfare, the Government's consultation on changes to the benefits system, announced by Iain Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. 

John Cridland, CBI Deputy Director-General, said: "Long-term worklessness has been a problem for many years,...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[New Reforms Risk People Getting Stuck In Part Time Work, Says Think Tank]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[By Claire West

The Government's announcement today on its benefit reform plans sets out an ambitious agenda for reform but raises questions that must be answered if it is to be successful, says the Social Market Foundation, a leading UK think-tank. 

Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith,...]]></description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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