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		<title>Business Events in Flintshire 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[March to June 2010
11 March 2010
This is a free event aimed at giving businesses and individuals the opportunity to speak to local experts on a wide range of money related issues all under one roof
The Money Show Chester 
Representatives from McLintocks Chartered Accountants, Aaron &#38; Partners LLP Solicitors, 75Point3 Independent Financial Advisors, Humphreys Estate &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researching your next opportunity</title>
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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>Train Company Bailout By UK Approved by EU</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EU&#8217;s top competition watchdog on Wednesday approved 5.2 billion pounds (7.9 billion dollars, 5.8 billion euros) of British state aid to develop Eurostar, including the high-speed rail service which links London with Paris and Brussels.
The money was used to construct a high-speed track between London and the English Channel before which Eurostar trains used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flintshire Companies make most of Fibrespeed Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEARLY 1,000 reople are regularly making use of a new optical fibre network in North Wales a year after the launch of the pioneering project.
They say the FibreSpeed project provides a way to communicate to customers or offer internet-based products and services, many of which are difficult or impossible to provide using standard copper wire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self Employment is Helping the High Street!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly unemployed are turning to working from home, and that&#8217;s good news for department store chain John Lewis, which today reported an 18% surge in sales of home office furniture.
It helped the High Street bellwether to post a 6.3% rise in total sales for the week ending 25 July, the penultimate week of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Business Oportunity for the Brave!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having talked in the office, we just came up with an interesting new business opportunity.  We are breaking the main rule of future income here, but it&#8217;s to your advantage &#8230;
Most great businesses are created when someone takes one business and mixes it with the business process from another industry.  That is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holding Companies &amp; the EU VAT Rule Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks and firms which have a holding company within the UK will no longer be allowed to position their holding company in the same VAT group as the rest of the company, under a European Commission ruling due to be enforced in January. 
The EC had previously stated that passive holding companies &#8211; companies with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flintshire Tourist Biz to get a boost!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 20th of September, the Delyn Walk is raising from the ashes of memory and will be known as the Flintshire Walk.
For anyone old enough (!) to remember the Delyn walk, it was a three route walk around the Holywell area of Flintshire.  Walkers could choose to do a 8 miles, a 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High School Musical &#8211; Excellence in Marketing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are over the age of 18, and do not have pre teen children, it is highly unlikely that you will have heard of High School Musical.  It is a product of the Disney Corporation and is essentially a film about a bunch of smiley, picture perfect American teens singing annoyingly catchy tunes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Tendering Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We found this great article here.
A recent Parliamentary report shows that small businesses are still finding difficult to bid for public sector contracts, despite Government policies and attempts to intervene.
The report, released by the House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Small Business Group (APPSBG), recommends that many barriers still need to be removed to help [...]]]></description>
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