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We’ve gathered together the most useful articles from media around the world to keep you up to date with what’s going on and how it might affect your business

Brexit: EU online deliveries to UK have halved (CityAM)

UK retailers join pubs and clubs in rejecting Covid-status certificates (The Guardian)

JP Morgan boss plans for ‘significantly’ less office space (BBC)

Bet365 boss earns £469m in a single year (BBC)

Deliveroo shares slump by 26% on London stock market debut (The Guardian)

UK economy bouncing back stronger than expected amid savings boom (The Guardian)

Nationwide office staff can work anywhere in UK when lockdown ends (The Guardian)

‘I can’t see myself going back to a five-day week’ (BBC)

Big investors shun Deliveroo over workers’ rights (BBC)

Number of small businesses in distress triple pre-Covid level (Smallbusiness)

Britain ‘heading for new era of austerity’, thinktank warns (The Guardian)

Economic outlook ‘unusually uncertain’ despite ‘rapid’ vaccine rollout (BBC)

Where to get your small business Restart Grant worth up to £18,000 (Smallbusiness)

Global chief executives say UK market is more attractive after Brexit (CityAM)

UK exports to European Union drop 40% in January (BBC)

Former Deliveroo executives launch 10-minute grocery delivery app in London (CityAM)

Amazon Fresh opens first ‘till-less’ grocery store in UK (The Guardian)

Budget 2021: key points at a glance (The Guardian)

Rishi Sunak eyes hiking corporation tax even higher to 25% (Smallbusiness)

Majority of work from home job listings now ‘temporarily remote’, as return to office nears (CityAM)

HMRC letters question Covid self-employment support grant claims (BBC)

Slash business rates to save High Street, says Next boss (BBC)

UK retail sales plunge as government borrows £8.8bn (The Guardian)

Uber drivers are workers not self-employed, Supreme Court rules (BBC)

Retailers call for more Covid help after £22bn loss in non-food sales (The Guardian)

CoraQuest board game is crowdfunding hit for father and daughter (The Guardian)

UK economy suffered record annual slump in 2020 (BBC)

Forget Frankfurt and Paris, says Barclays boss (BBC)

Brexit: 71 pages of paperwork for 1 lorry of fish (BBC)

SME owners hold £1.2bn of personal liabilities linked to Covid-19 loans (Smallbusiness)

Retail is at death’s door – and tinkering with business rates won’t save it (The Guardian)

UK firms plan to shift across Channel after Brexit chaos (The Guardian)

UK applying to join Asia-Pacific free trade pact CPTPP (BBC)

Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU (BBC)

‘A Brexit nightmare’: the British businesses being pushed to breaking point (The Guardian)

Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told (The Guardian)

Insurers must pay many small firms for Covid lockdown losses (BBC)

Back to work Monday? Perhaps a four day week is good for all of us (CityAM)

Shock Brexit charges are hurting us, say small British businesses (The Guardian)

Marston’s boss calls for extra support as pub chain expects sites to be closed until March (CityAM)

Brexit: Firms warn of problems as new EU trade rules kick in (BBC)

UK shops call for more help as footfall drops 43% in 2020 (The Guardian)

UK high street lost 177,000 jobs in 2020, study finds

Small business calls for multibillion-pound Covid-19 support package

Why did these people start businesses in a pandemic?

Royal Mail delays blamed on ‘exceptional’ volumes of post

Brexit stockpiling: ‘I can’t get my wine out of the EU’

Treasury eyes hitting self-employed gig workers with VAT charge

Barclays issues scam warning to SMEs ahead of Brexit

Boom in websites supporting local UK shops amid Covid lockdowns

Don’t save the high street – change it completely, says retail guru Mary Portas

New jobs in UK hospitality sector ‘non-existent’

Big fall in Black Friday UK retail sales despite online spending boom

Don’t make us pay national insurance for furloughed staff, say struggling businesses

Saving the High Street requires some real creativity

Radio listening surges in second lockdown as Brits work from home

Marks & Spencer to open 400 stores to midnight for Christmas

UK out of recession but growth slows in September

Landlords slam increasing use of CVAs on High Street

Banking giant suggests 5% working from home tax for businesses

Sunak extends furlough to whole of UK until March 2021

UK-EU trade faces major disruption even with deal, say auditors

Independent shops hit out at high street chains trading during lockdown

Eurozone bounces back to economic growth

UK garden industry set for Brexit shock

A post-Covid economy will need to offer tools to help enterprises flourish

Sunak scraps three-year spending review to focus on Covid-19

Government positive about small business Brexit transition voucher

Covid leaves 6m UK small businesses and 16m jobs in ‘precarious position’

UK economy not ready for no-deal Brexit, say business leaders

Will we be getting our cash from shops, not ATMs?

London fintechs secure billions from US investors despite virus and Brexit uncertainty

Coronavirus recovery stalls as UK economy grows just 2.1 per cent in August

Coronavirus: UK workers to get two-thirds of wages if firms told to shut

Majority of UK businesses to scrap working from home post-pandemic

Nearly two thirds of Bounce Back Loans could go bad, says government

Thousands of UK firms may need to set up an EU office

Three in four employers will let their staff work from home more after coronavirus has gone

Coronavirus: Insurers in virus claims test case named

Brexit: UK’s smallest firms divert £10bn in exports away from EU

BGF pitches £15bn growth fund for struggling businesses post-coronavirus

SMEs in lockdown trying to look up

Survive and thrive: Pilgrims get a pizza the delivery action

Five tips to support your staff working from home

Five tips for managing your business through a crisis

Coronavirus: Workers ‘should not return to unsafe workplaces’

Small businesses call for furloughed workers to return to work

Coronavirus: New UK lockdown rules - Sky News experts give their views

Government announces new “bounce back” loans of up to £50,000 for small businesses

Former UK chancellor pushes to reopen economy

Coronavirus: How the furlough scheme works for you: A simple guide

‘Coronavirus is the biggest low in my career’

What coronavirus small business help is available for free?

Government launches new coronavirus business support finder tool

Business Unusual: vcita and Mastercard launch app for SMEs to go digital

Coronavirus: We haven’t paid our rent, says Burger King boss

Can inclusion efforts help business resiliency during the COVID-19 crisis?

Start-ups give cautious welcome to Treasury bailout scheme

Just £1.1bn of Covid-19 bailout loans have been issued to small UK firms

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