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Avoiding 'meteorites' that can wipe out your business
Opinion
Dr Steven McCabe: Having your own business requires constant decision making, many businesses fail every year but there are crucial factors to avoid that can wipe out your business.
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Movie Review: The Great Gatsby
Retail & Consumer
Directed by British filmmaker Jack Clayton (Room at the Top), the most recent 1974 version starred Robert Redford and Mia Farrow as the titlecharacters Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, with Laura Dern’s father Bruce Dern as Tom Buchanan and Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway.
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Keith Gabriel: Don't blame the buses - blame the passengers
Economic Development
I was on a stag do in York last weekend. I fair enjoyed it, despite a disappointing lack of vomit, nudity or ritual humiliation.
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Alison Moyet: I'll never sell my soul for a record deal
Retail & Consumer
Singer Alison Moyet was first thrust into the spotlight in the 80s with Yazoo.
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Sandi Toksvig watches as the world twitters on with no manners
Retail & Consumer
Multi-talented Sandi Toksvig tells Roz Laws about rude people, war and her hatred of sport.
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Christopher Bucktin: Angelina challenges the old Hollywood clichés
Economic Development
Christopher Bucktin on Jolie, Cameron - and why Prince Harry might be a new American idol...
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Astronaut who sang Space Oddity and took photo of Birmingham is back on Earth
Economic Development
The astronaut who photographed Birmingham from space , Commander Chris Hadfield, is getting used to life back on Earth after his five-month mission to the International Space Station.
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Great tastes straight from Birmingham's streets
Retail & Consumer
Birmingham's next generation of chefs are turning their backs on restaurants to run burger vans and snack shacks, writes Mary Griffin.
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Mother-of-two tastes success with Lichfield venture
Economic Development
A mother-of-two is savouring sweet success after an award-winning grocer snapped-up her dessert to sell on the shelves of his Birmingham deli.
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Worcestershire-made app gets the attention of Microsoft
Enterprise
A Worcestershire-made app that allows you to draw and share with the world is among just 64 worldwide to be shortlisted in a Microsoft competition.
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Birmingham MP Liam Byrne battles Labour left over welfare reforms
Economic Development
One of Labour’s most senior MPs in the Midlands is at the centre of a major row with activists and union leaders after he refused to vote against the Government’s “workfare” plans in the Commons.
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Jon Griffin: Virtual generation feeding off a diet of bullet points
Economic Development
Very occasionally, as the boundaries between perception and reality become increasingly blurred to older generations, there’s a dazzling shaft of light.
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The McComb Awards for Dining are back
Retail & Consumer
It's time for the MADs - the McComb Awards for Dining.
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MP Aidan Burley stands by criticism of 'multicultural crap' Olympic ceremony
Economic Development
The Staffordshire MP who described the Olympics opening ceremony as “leftist multicultural crap” on Twitter has stood by his comments.
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Review after man falls to his death at Bullring
Economic Development
The horrific incident happened shortly after 7pm on Friday when the man, who has not yet been named, leapt over 4ft barriers just outside Debenhams, watched by shoppers.
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Corporate pressure of American politics
Economic Development
Chris Game says the simple plastic carrier bag has become a symbol of American politics in the Obama era
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