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Sharmaden Reid is the founder and CEO of Beautystack, a tech start up in London that has raised more than £4m in investment. A working mother frustrated at childcare arrangements in most small businesses, she decided to offer childcare to her employees on her own terms, including a childminder during school holidays. The government launched […]

Image copyright Getty Images Summer has finally arrived and with it, the inevitable clothing dilemma – what to wear to work when the temperature heats up. Flip-flops, strappy summer dresses, shorts and T-shirts are fine when you’re off duty. But is it also OK to wear such outfits to work, or are there sartorial limits

Image copyright Lewis Allman/Liz Porter Image caption Johnny Marr and Sheryl Crow show off the clothes they donated Sheryl Crow, Lewis Capaldi and Billie Eilish are among the Glastonbury stars to give clothes to Oxfam in support of a campaign against “throwaway fashion”. The artists gave some of their clothing to the charity during the

Image copyright Getty Images British Airways will begin talks with its pilots on Monday to avert a potentially damaging summer strike. Pilots have rejected a pay increase worth 11.5% over three years, which the airline says is “fair and generous”. However, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa) argues that its members deserve a better offer,

Image copyright Getty Images Deutsche Bank will cut 18,000 jobs over the next three years as part a radical reorganisation of the German bank. The struggling lender also announced that it expects to report losses of €2.8bn in the second quarter to pay for the shake-up of the business. Deutsche Bank is yet to specify

Image copyright Getty Images Flyadeal, the low-cost airline Saudi Arabian airline, has cancelled an order for 30 Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The decision follows the crashes of two 737 Max jets, the first in Indonesia in October followed by one in Ethiopia in March, which killed 346 people. Since then the aircraft has been grounded

Image caption Joan Girling – fighting for her “beloved coast” Joan Girling has been fighting the nuclear industry most of her adult life. She was at school when the new Magnox reactor was begun on the Suffolk coast at Sizewell in the 1960s. Her father told her it was a “necessary evil”. But when she

Image copyright Reuters Image caption “We’re prepared to make tough cutbacks,” said CEO Christian Sewing earlier this year Up to 20,000 jobs could be axed at Deutsche Bank as the company is set to announce plans for a global restructuring. The majority of cuts are expected in the City of London and Wall Street. The

Image copyright Getty Images The Department of Health and Social Care plans to spend £3m on no-deal Brexit measures to transport medication. It wants to hire an “express freight service” to transport medicines, blood and transplant tissue. But experts have warned that the deadline of 1 September set for the deal is a “tight” timeframe.

Image copyright Manchester Credit Union Image caption Christine Moore and Christine McKeague from the Manchester Credit Union There’s been a rapid rise in demand for a type of loan to families who repay using their Child Benefit, Radio 4’s Money Box has learned. Several credit unions say they are seeing much greater demand for what