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A reproductive well being start-up run by one among Britain's most outstanding enterprise capitalists has clinched a £5m funding spherical regardless of a troublesome financing marketplace for early-stage corporations.Sky News understands that Fertifa, which offers company shoppers with wellbeing companies for workers dealing with fertility and different sexual well being challenges, will announce on Friday that it has raised the cash from blue-chip buyers together with Notion Capital and Triple Point Ventures. The firm has processed greater than £1.5m-worth of employer-funded reimbursements to staff for fertility therapies within the final yr.Its shoppers embrace Lululemon, Meta, Bain Capital, Space NK, the regulation agency Osborne Clarke, Centrica and Virgin.It can also be...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland is turning into the most recent state to legally promote leisure marijuana, as companies purpose to faucet into July Fourth festivities to kick off gross sales. ...

New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino instructed workers to make use of “hand-to-hand” fight to convey advertisers again to the platform. Ms. Yaccarino us...

An estimated 15.7 million folks within the UK skilled postal delays final month, in line with new analysis commissioned by the charity, Citizens Advice. Many of those that skilled delays mentioned that they had suffered knock-on impacts, akin to lacking well being appointments, fines or payments. One lady mentioned no less than 4 of her hospital appointment letters had been delayed throughout a "high risk" being pregnant.Citizens Advice Chief Executive, Dame Clare Moriarty, described the extent of delays as "appalling".The charity additionally known as on regulator Ofcom to strengthen its present evaluation of postal companies. Royal Mail mentioned the 12 months 2022/2023 was "one of the most challenging in our history" and mentioned its companies had been impacted by strikes...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of 1000's of air vacationers are dealing with potential flight cancellations and delays this weekend, the height of summer season journey, as thunderstorms threaten the East Coast, West Coast and factors in between. ...

Promising progress in British automotive manufacturing might be reduce brief until a deal is reached with the European Union (EU) within the coming months, an trade physique has warned.Britain recorded the very best May for automotive manufacturing in 4 years, based on knowledge from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). But this determine was largely pushed by exports to the EU.The overwhelming majority (79.5%) of the practically 80,000 (79,406) automobiles produced within the UK in May 2023 had been for export.Domestic demand accounted for simply 16,188 automobiles regardless of rising by 45%. That progress in demand within the UK was practically double the 23% rise in exports. However, of the exports, greater than half (56%) of the automobiles had been mad...

A Philadelphia towing firm, its proprietor and workers are accused of operating a catalytic converter ring that paid over $8 million for the stolen automotive components from 2020 to 2023. ...

WASHINGTON — The former head of a federal company that investigates chemical accidents improperly spent greater than $90,000 throughout her tenure, together with unauthorized journeys to and from her California residence, reworking her Washington workplace and outdoors media coaching for herself, based on a brand new report by a federal watchdog. ...

Despite enhancements throughout the trade, United Airlines passengers proceed to see expertise delays and cancellations Thursday. Of the 487 flights...

U.S. well being officers will begin formally monitoring infections attributable to the uncommon however doubtlessly lethal germ that sickened infants and triggered a nationwide scarcity of toddler formulation final 12 months. ...