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Small Business UK
Late payment rules to include mandatory interest and 60-day capLate payment rules include a payment term cap, mandatory interest payments and new powers for the Small Business Commissioner
Freelance Informer
UK Late Payment Reform 2026: New Rights, 60-Day Cap & What Every Freelancer Needs To KnowThe UK government has unveiled the most sweeping late payment reforms in over a generation — giving freelancers and sole traders new legal muscle to chase, charge interest on, and report unpaid invoices....
Not Ltd
Meet the olderpreneurs: why experience is becoming the ultimate business advantageA growing wave of UK olderpreneurs are launching businesses after 50, proving experience, confidence and networks can be a powerful competitive advantage.
Not Ltd
The lonely owner problem: why more UK business founders feel isolated than everMore UK small business owners are feeling isolated and exhausted as rising costs, taxes and solo working push founders to breaking point.
GB News
Labour warned DWP scheme to tackle workplace sickness 'like emptying the ocean with a teaspoon'The Labour Government has unveiled a new scheme offering complimentary occupational health training to 5,000 line managers at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across England.
Business Matters
Workplace sickness scheme branded ‘teaspoon solution’ as experts warn government plan lacks scaleExperts and business leaders have criticised a new UK workplace sickness scheme, warning it lacks scale and fails to address the root causes keeping millions out of work.
Birmingham Live
Tips for drivers travelling on busiest day of ChristmasToday, Friday, December 19, is estimated to the the businest with million travelling home for Christmas
Edinburgh Live
Millions told test could ‘boost health and wellbeing’A new government initiative offers free five-minute task to improve wellbeing but critics say it’s ‘tone deaf’
Birmingham Live
Financial blow to Rachel ReevesOne expert said business owners are in “survival mode”
FT Adviser
Govt wellbeing quiz branded ‘tone deaf’ before BudgetA five minute quiz by the government that claims to boost Brits’ mood has been branded “tone deaf” days before the Budget.
Daily Mail
Labour launches ‘morale boost’ quiz just days before miserable BudgetThe timing of the quiz has come under scrutiny, particularly in asking how worried Brits are just a day before the Chancellor’s Budget.
Express.co.uk
Millions of Brits told it takes ‘five minutes’ to make simple healthy changeThe new government initiative promises to boost mood and energy levels but has been criticsed for it’s proximity to the Budget
Wales Online
Millions told test could ‘boost health and wellbeing’A new government initiative offers free five-minute task to improve wellbeing but critics say it’s ‘tone deaf’
Daily Mirror
DWP’s Connect to Work scheme branded ‘band aid on broken system’The Department for Work and Pensions recently launched the rollout of its Connect to Work scheme, delivering £338million to 15 areas in England
Liverpool Echo
DWP plan to get disabled people into work criticised by expertsThe Department for Work and Pensions says the Connect to Work programme will benefit around 85,000 sick or disabled people to start with
London Business News
Bounce Back Loan proved to be a massive misnomer for small businessesNewspage asked six small business owners who took out a Bounce Back Loan about how it impacted them and their businesses four years on. One said: “Bounce Back Loan proved…
Startups.co.uk
UK Businesses Weighed Down By Bounce Back Loan RepaymentsThe Bounce Back Loan was to help businesses recover quickly post-COVID. Yet four years later, some UK SMEs say it’s become a burden on growth.