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Planned Parenthood introduced this week that it's going to restructure its group and lower workers in its nationwide places of work.  The union repr...

Midlands and Wales water firm Severn Trent has reported a rise in earnings and funds to shareholders, while saying it ought to have acted sooner on sewage discharges. Profits earlier than tax and curiosity reached £508.8m within the yr to the tip of March, up from £506.2m the yr earlier than. Shareholder funds too are up and estimated to be value greater than £260m. A dividend for the yr of £1.06 per share has been proposed by Severn Trent, 4p extra per share than final yr.It comes as the pinnacle of business physique UK Water final week apologised for not appearing shortly sufficient on sewage spills into UK rivers and seas and mentioned it might spend £10bn on the difficulty. Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible vi...

A Saudi occasions firm is in superior talks to turn out to be the brand new shirt sponsor of Newcastle United FC - a deal that may check new Premier League guidelines on associated occasion transactions.Sky News has learnt that Sela, which operates in dozens of nations and has organised sporting occasions such because the annual Race of Champions, is in detailed negotiations about changing into the Magpies' greatest industrial accomplice. Sources stated Sela was now the main contender to switch the playing firm Fun88 as Newcastle's sponsor, with Champions' League soccer set to return to St James's Park after a prolonged absence.If the talks are efficiently concluded, a deal could possibly be introduced as quickly as subsequent month, in time for reproduction kits to be manufa...

Insurance agency Aviva has reported a 25% improve within the variety of new medical insurance insurance policies taken out within the first three months of this yr - as NHS lists lengthened and workers went on strike.The Aviva boss was express in linking the rise in new insurance policies to failings within the public well being service. The improve is "a consequence of what we're seeing in the NHS and customers basically saying that if they can take control over their health situation then they will," chief govt Amanda Blanc mentioned.More people and corporations are "attracted to the benefits of private cover", Aviva's first quarter buying and selling replace mentioned.There have been an additional 123,000 medical insurance clients over the yr, Ms Blanc added. Health insura...

They generally name economics the "dismal science", and listening to economists immediately you'll be able to perceive why.Inflation - the share fee at which costs are rising annually - has simply fallen out of double digits for the primary time since final summer time - down from 10.1% in March to eight.7% in April. Finally, the price of residing disaster - or relatively the speed at which the disaster is worsening - is starting to abate.So why are economists so glum this morning?It comes again to the truth that lurking beneath that one massive inflation quantity are two separate points. And whereas the information on one is nice, the information on the opposite is unhealthy. Let's take the excellent news first.Energy payments falling The fundamental factor pushing up th...

Ian King's on the Podcast Show in north London discovering out in regards to the thriving sector and the place it goes from right here.Plus, there's been a fall in inflation - Ian dissects what it means with Investec economist Sandra Horsfield.He additionally speaks to particular musical company together with Tim Burgess from The Charlatans and Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt.Listen and subscribe to the Ian King Business Podcast right here Content Source: information.sky.com

The world's greatest operator of city-based sightseeing excursions is being put up on the market in a deal that may very well be valued at about £600m.Sky News has learnt that Big Bus Tours, whose open-top autos are a well-known sight in places resembling London, Paris and Hong Kong, might change arms throughout the subsequent 12 months. City sources mentioned on Wednesday that Exponent Private Equity, which has owned the enterprise since 2015, had employed Bank of America to advise on a sale.Big Bus Tours is alleged to be extraordinarily worthwhile, with demand rebounding strongly because the pandemic.It additionally trades in cities together with Dubai, Istanbul, New York and San Francisco. The firm was fashioned in 2011 from the merger of UK-based Big Bus Company and Paris...

Few industries have loved as a lot of a growth throughout current years as podcasting.Improvements within the ease of manufacturing and distribution, with extra inexpensive and environment friendly recording tools and an explosion within the availability of smartphones and listening units, have helped make podcasts simply accessible to huge audiences. Media corporations have been fast to determine the expansion potential and have invested closely in podcasting, not solely the standard of manufacturing but in addition in expertise, with numerous large names being lured away from established broadcasters just like the BBC. It has created a number of specialist podcasting publishers, resembling London-listed Audioboom and Nasdaq-listed iHeartMedia, though in ...

The price of inflation is lastly again in single digits for the primary time since final summer time, easing to eight.7% final month however meals inflation stays close to 20% and core worth inflation is at a 30 yr excessive. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) mentioned the decline within the shopper costs index measure (CPI) was primarily pushed by gasoline and electrical energy prices remaining secure in April when in comparison with the unprecedented leap recorded in the identical month final yr. April 2022 noticed the power worth cap lifted by 54% to £1,971 to mirror, for the primary time, the impression of Russia's struggle in Ukraine on European gasoline and electrical energy provides. Energy prices have been the primary supply of the price of ...

Prison "job centres" and hyperlinks with massive companies are behind an increase within the variety of ex-offenders discovering work after time inside, in response to the Ministry of Justice.New figures for England and Wales present 640 prisoners discovered employment six weeks after being launched within the yr to March 2023, in contrast with 487 a yr earlier. It represents 19.4% of all inmates launched.The quantity in work after six months was 715 (30.4% of all these launched) - up from 573 the yr earlier than and 394 two years in the past.Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, in his first interview since taking up the place from Dominic Raab, mentioned these in regular jobs are 9% much less prone to reoffend."The offenders speak about the dignity that comes with this, the discipl...