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The news section on Small Business UK allows you to keep up to date with the latest news, economic trends and regulatory developments affecting new and established UK small businesses.

Businesses look to credit cards for finance

SMEs are turning to high-risk forms of finance such as credit cards and loans from friends and family to keep their business on track, research finds.

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Employers look for the intangibles when hiring

Employers rate strong interpersonal skills, confidence and enthusiasm in a potential employee more highly than business acumen or a strong academic degree, finds research.

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Rising business costs crippling small businesses

Small firms are being pushed to the wall by a vice of rising business costs, research finds.

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Bosses need to take a break

Bosses are finding it difficult to tear themselves away from the office while on holiday - if they can take any holiday at all...

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Government introduces Advanced and Higher Apprenticeships fund

A £25 million government fund will support up to 10,000 Advanced and Higher Apprenticeships.

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Is there a small business niche for electric vehicles?

SmallBusiness.co.uk sheds light on electric vehicles for company car fleets and alternative car technology.

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Employees lie to take time off

One in three UK workers admit to lying to take time off work, mainly because of disillusionment with their jobs, finds research.

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UK SME capital expenditure lags behind

UK SMEs will invest less in their businesses over the coming year than companies in other leading European countries, research finds.

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Employees lie to take time off

One in three UK workers admit to lying to take time off work, mainly because of disillusionment with their jobs, finds research.

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UK SME capital expenditure lags behind

UK SMEs will invest less in their businesses over the coming year than companies in other leading European countries, research finds.

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Office spaces face extinction by 2021


Workers in the UK expect that by 2021 offices will face extinction due to mobile working, says a new study.

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Employers face fibbing candidates 

One in five Britons admit to lying in interviews and on application forms to get the job of their dreams, research finds.

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BCC: Let’s avoid increased business rates

The government’s plan to allow councils to retain business rates shouldn’t be used as an opportunity to increase rates, says the BCC.

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SMEs unfamiliar with Bribery Act

Almost three quarters of small businesses do not understand what the impending Bribery Act is or how it is likely to affect the way they do business, research finds.

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