Kate: A Queen in the making 

As Kate marks her 39th birthday this weekend, Hannah Betts looks back at the decade that saw Miss Middleton become a Royal force to be reckoned with Yesterday, the Duchess of Cambridge turned 39. In April, she will celebrate her tenth wedding anniversary, 20 years after she and her husband …

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Call to test employees who cannot work from home

The employers testing workers include firms in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors. Public sector workers including those in job centres and transport networks are also set to be part of the testing programme with 27,000 tested.  Business lobbyists welcomed the use of rapid testing for staff who must …

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Grassroots roundtable – How was it for you?

2020 has been an unprecedented year. The effects of Covid-19 will still be being felt in years to come, with the general economy struggling to return to something like normal. Unemployment is likely to rise and the way people work will, no doubt, change substantially. Through all this mayhem, and …

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Business leaders stand by province’s economic recovery team

Richard Alexander, executive director of the N.L. Employers Council, says the provincial government’s economic recovery team is going to give Newfoundland and Labrador a bright future. (Bruce Tilley/CBC) Some business leaders remain all in on the provincial government’s economic recovery team, despite union leaders taking a stand against it. On Tuesday, Mary …

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Chicken shop among latest Oxford planning applications

PLANS to change a grocery shop into a new fast-food restaurant are among the latest planning applications that have been submitted to Oxford City Council. A garage conversion, installation of liquid oxygen tanks at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a Cowley Road restaurant expansion are other plans up for deliberation …

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