In today's global marketplace, no company can afford to risk being overtaken by the competition due to inefficiency. In a world where the Internet has made it possible for even the smallest of businesses to compete with some of the world's best-known brands, the fight for customers is fiercer than ever. To succeed, small businesses need to identify every available opportunity to decrease costs and increase inefficiency. One of the ways that a small business can streamline their operations and...

A slavery victim was told that his benefits would be slashed and threatened with jail if he didn't pay a historical fine for committing a crime he was forced into by one of the UK's biggest human trafficking rings. The 51-year-old man, who was regularly beaten, starved and at one point forced to dig his own grave, was convicted of stripping a nightclub of scrap metal after being forced into it by the notorious Rooney family. It is thought the...

Thames Water had to hand out water bottles and pump water into the network to keep pressure up

I’m going to say it. It's needlessly convoluted but I like the word and I want to use it. Look at our latest playlist and tell me June wasn’t the most dichotomous month on the 2018 release calendar so far? We’ve got truly world-class atmospheric, experimental jazz rubbing shoulders with some nu-metal/jump-cut metalcore crossover. We’ve got sultry makeout RnB sharing breaths with prime happy hardcore sleaze. It’s a high tech, low life, kind of feeling, June, I’ll give you that....

Jeremy Corbyn has called on bossed to be flexible with the millions of evening workers who want to watch England take on Colombia tonight. More than one in four UK employees (5.7 million people) work evenings and many of them will want to watch the matches too, with some potentially skipping their shifts to watch the big game. According to recent statistics, the FIFA World Cup held in Brazil in 2014 resulted in an estimated 131 million lost working days as...

“Cataclysmic” collision shaped Uranus’ evolution, reveals new research led by Durham University scientists

The Conservative Party has been busy scheming ways to deliver the so-called Brexit dividend promised to the electorate before the referendum in 2016, but it is unlikely to come from money saved by leaving the EU. According to the latest reports Theresa May is set to end an eight year freeze on fuel duty and end the cap on alcohol taxes in order to keep her promise to spend an extra £20 billion on the NHS by 2023. The money was supposed to be collected from...

Brazilian forward Neymar is the coolest footballer currently playing in the World Cup, according to Brits. The PSG striker, who scored Brazil’s opener in yesterday’s second round victory over Mexico, beat two Englishmen to top the poll. Frontmen Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford were the members of Gareth Southgate’s squad to make the top three. French forward Killian Mbappé, who notched a brace against Argentina in the last round and announced he would be donating his match fee to charity,...

The "incredibly challenging" job will see two applicants take on a host of sea birds and seals on Bardsey Island