How are the January sales for you? Shoppers seem to be voting with their feet and deserting the High Street for online sales.
Everyone looks forward to Christmas (e.g. Payment Card Processors) but maybe not the New Year (e.g. Market Stallholders).
The Dept. of Transport had lost control of the HS2 programme and the spiralling costs – £30 billion, then £40 billion.
The recent heatwave has got everyone hot under the collar – none more so than MP’s keen to reject a pay RISE.
Uncertainty ended on 8th May when Council leader Peter Rankin and Jonathan Owen gave Traders a thumbs-up for the future.
Tesco have blamed poor sales on the economic recession but US analysts say that’s wrong.
Starbucks paid only a paltry £8.5 million in corporation tax on £3 billion of sales over 14 years.
Amazon, despite employing 15,000 people and enjoying estimated sales of £3.9 billion in the UK last year it paid just £1.9 million in tax.
After July’s unwelcome hike in inflation the Bank of England relaxed a bit in August as the inflation rate slid back a point or so.