Feb 19 2010

I tell you this about 2010…

If you are looking to start a small business or possibly a franchise 2010; you follow news on the  television avidly, you read the newspapers too and are not looking at Healthcare; Education or the Environment as the business to start – then you’re mad.
Statistics:

There are 4.8 million small businesses in the UK (up from 4 million in 2003)
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Feb 19 2010

Question: does anyone use Friends Reunited

The sale of social networking website Friends Reunited to genealogy firm Brightsolid has been provisionally cleared by the Competition Commission.

ITV’s £25m sale of the website had been studied for any impact the tie-up may have on family tree research services. Question: does anyone use Friends Reunited

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Feb 14 2010

Les Armitage: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

Mr and Mrs Armitage have their 27 Valentines dinner tomorrow. Still brilliant. #
Wow. This is some movie. #
Valntines dinner tomorrow. Roast rib of beef; veg + spuds. Plum pie. I'd that romantic for someone loved? #
Just watching 'The Lovely Bones'. Pause for Roz's mobile: she's on call. Ah well, another Cadbury (Kraft) Roses. How the [...]

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Feb 12 2010

“Death tax” to pay for social care? Is that right?

The government is under increasing pressure to clarify its position over a so-called “death tax” to pay for social care.
The proposal by Ministers in England to introduce a compulsory fee of up to £20,000 to cover such care has been supported by charities and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), though the [...]

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Feb 9 2010

Jeremy Vine and the Tsunami Of The Aged

Hi Les
Just listened to Jeremy Vine BBC radio 2 guest who described our population as a Tsunami of older people on the way!

Good for your business…
R….

Slightly bad taste I guess but what is amazing is that it’s absolutely correct. There are more of pensionable age than teenage.
There are couple of things that are going to be [...]

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