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Thursday 17 September 2020

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Beds doctors’ surgery and care home scheme set for approval

Plans to build a new doctors' surgery and care home in a Bedfordshire village, which forms part of a wider urban extension, look set to take a step forward.
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Business Matters: Time to Tax?

Ken Craig, partner at Azets, talks about the possible reforms in tax and who will bear the burden of the circa £300bn missing from the treasure chest, which is the estimate of the overall public finance cost of COVID according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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Deals

Hatch Brenner bolsters dispute resolution team

The clinical negligence, personal injury and professional negligence team at Norwich law firm Morgan Jones Pett has joined Hatch Brenner Solicitors.
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Davies buys cloud application provider

Professional services and technology business Davies has acquired a cloud application provider based in Oxford.
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SPT completes China deal

Cambridge-based SPT Life Sciences has acquired LBD Life Sciences, a supplier of instrumentation to the drug discovery market in China.
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Ardonagh’s Bennetts deal ‘raises competition concerns’

The competition watchdog has said Ardonagh Group's acquisition of Bennetts Motorcycling Services raises concerns.
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HMT works on Maven investment

HMT has advised Maven Capital Partners on its investment in a genetic testing business.
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Business

Pub group forecasts trading fall as pandemic bites

A pub group is expecting its trade to be at 77 per cent of its pre-Covid capacity over the next 12 months.
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Next’s profits slump as pandemic hits results

Next made a pre-tax profit of just £9m during the first half of its finance year as its sales slumped by more than a quarter because of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the retail giant said it is optimistic for the future after the company revealed that all of its guidance scenarios see it generating a profit, cash and reducing its debts.
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Property

Oxbridge lab and office take-up ‘resilient’

Take-up of office and laboratory space in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc has remained resilient during the first half of 2020, according to a new report from Bidwells.
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Factory outlet discount wholesaler secures almost £1m to expand

A Northamptonshire-based factory outlet discount wholesaler has secured just under £1m from Cambridge & Counties Bank to upgrade its 50,000 sq ft warehouse.
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Manufacturing

“Satisfactory” year for Nivea’s UK arm

The parent company of skincare products maker Nivea's UK arm has described the results for its latest financial year as "satisfactory". It added that the Covid-19 pandemic is not expected to have a material impact on its ongoing business.
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