Stricken TV producers open insolvency toolkit

Stricken TV producers open insolvency toolkit

by | Apr 16, 2024 | News

The ripple effects of a sector’s global downturn will often continue to hurt small operators for long after the big players have steadied themselves. The TV industry, with a long tail of independent suppliers, is a sad example close to home. Recent weeks have seen a...
Factories firing up for a comeback

Factories firing up for a comeback

by | Apr 9, 2024 | News

Debating the UK’s economic future inevitably leads to questioning the strength of our industrial base: what can generate earnings outside financial and professional services, or early stage tech development? Manufacturing’s share of the UK economy is around 10% today,...
More trouble ‘down the rub-a-dub’

More trouble ‘down the rub-a-dub’

by | Apr 2, 2024 | News

Britain’s pubs will be totting up the long weekend’s takings, hoping that mixed weather over an earlyish Easter wasn’t too much of a dampener. Sadly these things matter in an industry that has at best limped along since Covid and saw nearly 800 boozers enter...
EV troubles cast a shadow over early stage tech

EV troubles cast a shadow over early stage tech

by | Mar 26, 2024 | News

Britain’s fledgling electric vehicle industry seems to have run out of juice – but we shouldn’t be too hasty in writing off our entire tech sector. Lunaz, backed by football legend David Beckham, this month put its commercial transport arm Lunaz Applied...
Covid loan fraud bounces back on sole traders

Covid loan fraud bounces back on sole traders

by | Mar 12, 2024 | News

Almost four years after the government’s Bounce Back Loan (BBL) Scheme was rolled out to save small businesses at risk from pandemic lockdowns, closer scrutiny of businesses now unable to repay the loans is leading to action against  an increasing number of...