A relatively early decision to make after having formed a limited company is how you plan to draw money from your business account and pay yourself personally. Along with salary and potentially a Director’s Loan, this is where dividends come into the equation. In this guide, we’ll run through everything you need to know […]Read More

Being a general contractor is a satisfying and worthwhile career path. But if you are unable to find new clients as a self-employed contractor, there are different ways you can take on to survive and thrive in this competitive marketplace. No doubt building and renovation projects never come to an end, but people are […]Read More

The Apple M1 chip, containing an 8-core CPU that boasts four cores for performance and four for efficiency, is an ARM-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) that was officially launched in 2020 via the MacBook Air, the Mac mini and the MacBook Pro. In other words, it’s the first custom chipset design that was made exclusively for […]Read More

Before the pandemic and before we fully realised how important the NHS would become to us, the Prime Minister visited a hospital and declared an intention to deliver on the promises of Project Speed. Hereford County Hospital, visited by the PM, was undergoing an extension with the skill and expertise of MTX as part […]Read More

Moving furniture on your own can be quite risky for both you and the furniture. In order to avoid injury or premature damage to your prized possessions when moving from one home to another, you need to be familiar with the main safety guidelines. The best way to move this heavy furniture is to […]Read More

The insurer Hiscox has agreed a settlement with a group of about 400 companies over business interruption losses suffered as a result of lockdowns during the Covid-19 crisis. Thousands of businesses tried to make claims with insurance companies at the start of the pandemic in 2020 but many refused to pay out. However, a […]Read More

The UK and Singapore have today begun negotiations on a new ambitious digital trade agreement that could remove barriers to digital trade and enable UK exporters to expand into high-tech markets. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and the Singaporean Minister in charge of Trade Relations Mr S. Iswaran will meet by video call to […]Read More

The number of new solar farms planned for the east of England has more than doubled in recent months as farmers decide to swap crops for clean energy. New solar farm applications for sites across Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex in the last five months have climbed to 840 megawatts, or the same as 2m […]Read More

The clamour to push remote working as some sort of post Covid future is sending business leaders into a tizzy. With the ‘work from home if you can’ ruling due to be potentially binned along with other Covid restrictions from 19 July, there’s a lot of work still to be done to […]Read More

Greggs shrugged off the increased competition from cafés and restaurants since the middle of May to report better-than-expected trading. The group, which is known for its sausage rolls and steak bakes, said that it had seen a “sustained sales recovery” that was “stronger than we had anticipated”. It said that, if the level of […]Read More