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		<title>Want the World&#8217;s 1st Electric Sports Bike?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TTX02, known as the world’s first electric sport bike, was launched in the UK on December 15 and is currently available for pre-order. Dubbed as the ‘laptop on wheels’, the superbike has a dedicated IP address and is capable of connecting with most electronic devices, such as smart phones and MP3 players. The electric bike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Grants in Flintshire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grants for business in Flintshire start at the Welsh Assembly&#8217;s Single Investment Fund (SIF). This is a scheme where all the individual grants that were available have all been placed in a single &#8216;pot&#8217;. The WAG can assist all sizes of businesses with bespoke packages of support that meet their needs, for example for start-up, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researching your next opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about a recession is that the cost of researching new opportunities becomes lower.  Finding the next big thing is always balanced against the cost of following the current market, and in a growing economy, it is just as profitable to follow the herd as it is to spend some time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Calling &#8211; Why it doesn&#8217;t work like the manual!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine what is like to be overwhelmed by floods of cold calls every single day? Welcome to the world of the ‘decision-maker’&#8230;. We all believe in the product or service we sell. Or we should do if we deserve to be selling it! But that belief clouds our vision: we assume that everybody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get your face in the paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As was mentioned earlier, the Flintshire Business Week 2009 sponsors evening introduced a number of local companies together in one room. One very welcome contact was from the Evening Leader, our local paper. Very soon the conversation on how to get a business into the local paper was raised. The answer was enlightening. Firstly, tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residential Wind Turbines are just &#8216;Eco-Bling&#8217;!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roof-mounted wind turbines and solar panels are “eco-bling” that allow their owners to flaunt their green credentials but contribute very little towards meeting Britain’s carbon reduction targets, according to the Royal Academy of Engineering. Developers will waste millions of pounds installing such micro-generation devices unless the Government revises its building regulations on carbon-neutral homes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic Jams signal the end of recession?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interim Congestion Update from Trafficmaster and the AA shows congestion increasing but not everywhere &#8230; The most significant increases in congestion levels have been recorded on the Western Sector of the M25 at +50%; the A14 between Huntingdon and Cambridge which has seen a 45% increase and the M6 in Staffordshire with a 32% increase. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make Statistics Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the owners of the WalkAbout chain of pubs, Regents Inns having released their annual figures, their excuse of blaming the smoking ban is unusual. When Witherspoons released their disapointing figures last month, their excuse was more general, although they did mention the ban. When comparing this information with the statistics which say that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equal Pay Case with a Twist &#8211; the males won!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, 300 men won a test case at an employment tribunal in the North Eastern councils they work (Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and SouthTyneside). This has implications for 12,000 men across the UK. The case was based on the fact that men and women working for these three councils had previously taken a case against these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Twitter hit the wall?  Will Facebook be the eyeball winner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Facebook recently admitted that Twitter was in its rear-view mirror, it appears that Twitter may be moving out of eyeshot. September’s U.S. comScore data has just been released and it appears that the gap between Facebook and Twitter is widening. Facebook grew by over 3 million unique visitors during the month of September, from [...]]]></description>
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