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By Harry Bedford  The World lost a star when Cilla Black sadly passed away in the Spanish resort of Marbella. Aged 72, she is believed to have died of natural causes. The ultimate girl-next-door, Cilla was as likeable as she was talented and this gave her a career in show business spanning fifty years and fan-base spanning the entire country. Born Priscilla White in 1943 to a working-class family in Liverpool, she studied shipping management, though her passion always lay...

By Noy Shani @NoyShani One of Britain’s most prolific reality TV stars, Stuart Baggs, died yesterday, Thursday morning, in unknown circumstances in his home in Douglas, the Isle of Man. Baggs, who celebrated his 27th birthday just a few days ago, participated in the BBC show back in 2010, and is remembered for his witty one-liner catchphrases, including ‘I'm Stuart Baggs The Brand’ and ‘Everything I touch turns to sold’. He was fired during the semi-final of that season which...

By Fay Gibbin, Training Manager, Busy Bees Training Today, completing an Apprenticeship is a perfectly acceptable route to a stimulating and rewarding career or embarking upon a degree course, yet it is often wrongly assumed that those forgoing the traditional route of academic learning to pursue vocational training lack the aspirations or academic ability to achieve. Over 130,000 businesses across the UK offer Apprenticeship programmes because they recognise that they produce enthusiastic, dedicated individuals, who hold a company’s values and...

 By Ulrik Bo Larsen, CEO and Founder of Falcon Social What are your goals when you create content for social media? Engaging your audience, entertaining them, driving clicks, signups, and sales? How do you decide what will get people to pay attention (which is becoming harder to do, considering the volume of content being produced) and help you reach these goals? The immense amount of data generated by social channels can help guide you in content creation. Data on engagement...

By Paul Lindsell, managing director and founder of ThoughtSpark Over the last few years, new international banking regulations have made bank credit less available, resulting in a greater need for alternative funding. Private equity is proving an increasingly popular growth funding option for firms, whether as seed capital or at a second stage. However, buoyant business growth typically requires a set of key business skills – ranging across business management, financial management, new product development, HR, sales, product/service distribution, IT...

By John Newton, CTO and founder, Alfresco Software “It would be disastrous for the UK economy to leave the EU. That is why I am saying a firm ‘no’ to a UK Brexit. And now I will tell you why… Much has been written on productivity recently – the so-called ‘productivity puzzle’ as it has been tagged. George Osborne devoted a large part of his Budget to helping the UK move up the international league tables and has launched a...

 By Tom West from accounting firm Crunch @TomAlmeidaWest We spend all day being ripped off - whether it’s paying for that gym membership we never use, or spending £1.80 on a 99 Flake (the nerve!). If you’re running your own business, the last thing you can afford to do is rip yourself off. Of course modesty can get the better of anyone, but if your rates don’t reflect the quality of your work, you’ll be selling yourself short and hurting...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  "People who say their heart is with Corbyn, get a transplant," said Tony Blair, former Labour leader and champion of the centre-left. Labour has “rediscovered losing”. The Party mustn’t align itself with the left if it wants any chance of future electoral success. Blair's speech has made the front pages and directed the spotlight firmly on the Labour leadership contest, but to what extent will his words ring true with the Labour members? The latest poll results show...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  New research has found a record number of Greek workers are searching for jobs in the UK following the debt crisis and widespread youth unemployment. Figures released by CV-Library show the number of web visits received from Greek workers was up by 111 per cent, compared to the same week in July 2014. In addition to this, latest web traffic figures suggest there was a significantly high number of Greek visitors over the last four weeks,...