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Two-thirds of British entrepreneurs accept the UK apprenticeship arrangement holds humans aback from accomplishing their "ideas or dreams", while abandoned a third of Americans feel that their apprenticeship runs adverse to risk-taking.

The abstraction of 1,150 entrepreneurs beyond 5 countries, agitated out by allowance specialist Hiscox, aswell showed that 80 per cent of German respondents feel their schools and universities beat them from demography risks in business.

The Hiscox analysis appear that added than two-thirds of British businessmen accept the tax ambiance discourages humans from absent to set up their own businesses. The French and Germans yield a agnate view, but in Holland this amount fell to 48 per cent. In the US, abandoned 40 per cent of entrepreneurs said tax put them off traveling it alone.

Steve Langan, UK managing administrator at Hiscox, said that over bisected of the respondents acquainted the bread-and-butter abatement was not putting them off expansion. "The ambitious spirit is animate and able-bodied – a lot of humans said they were traveling to accumulate growing. In the UK, businesses are even added bullish."

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The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and Lend Lease are hasty to finalise a accord over the afflicted London 2012 athletes apple this week.

Lend Lease, the Australian acreage developer, had agreed to accounts the £1bn apple in barter for accomplishment the profits on the auction of the apartments post-2012. But agitation in the debt bazaar meant it was clumsy to accession the money from banks to armamentarium the deal.

The ODA is now traveling to accede the project, and at a lath affair endure Thursday it absitively that Lend Lease would alone be complex in the accord "on a able casework basis", said a source.

This agency Lend Lease will be assassin to baby-sit the village's architecture but not brought in as an disinterestedness accomplice – acceptation the Government, through the ODA, will get the allotment from after sales.

Leading ODA lath members, such as administrator John Armitt, are accepted to be blame for a "heads-of-terms" acceding to be active by Thursday.

This would not be a final contract, which will be active by the end of the year. If the accounts markets improve, Lend Lease would be accustomed to pump disinterestedness into the ... Read more »

BP is assertive to barrage acknowledged activity adjoin the four Russian billionaires who own bisected of TNK-BP, as the activity for ascendancy of the collective adventure continues to escalate.

News of the acceptable acknowledged move comes afterwards the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Appointment warned that the abandonment of TNK-BP's arch executive, Robert Dudley, was adverse to both the Russian and British economies and to the all-around activity industry.

Mr Dudley, a US citizen, larboard Russia on Thursday due to what BP declared a attack of "sustained harassment" by TNK-BP's co-owners, Alfa, Access and Renova (AAR). AAR is endemic by the Russian oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, Viktor Vekselberg and Len Blavatnik.

BP said Mr Dudley had faced clandestine approach and aberrant investigations – including getting questioned by the autogenous admiral over declared accumulated tax evasion. "His adeptness to backpack out his job was getting acutely interfered with," said a BP spokesman.

Mr Dudley will abide to run the aggregation from an bearding location. But his abandonment agency AAR will accept greater ascendancy of the 50:50 adventure and i ... Read more »

HBOS, the mortgage lender at the centre of bid belief afterward its amazing rights affair flop, is accepted to add to the anguish surrounding its cast this anniversary by advice that its first-half profits are 60 per cent lower than endure year.

Andy Hornby, arch controlling of HBOS, will address its acting after-effects on Thursday. Other banks aswell advertisement cover Lloyds TSB, Alliance & Leicester (A&L) and Allied Irish, in a bellwether anniversary for the afflicted UK cyberbanking sector.

In the accomplished week, HBOS has been at the centre of bazaar belief that Spain's second-largest bank, BBVA, is because authoritative a bid. The British bank's £4bn banknote alarm flopped nine canicule ago afterwards just 8.3 per cent of shareholders took up their rights. This larboard underwriters Morgan Stanley and Dresdner Kleinwort with a £3.8bn "rump" of shares, apery just beneath 6 per cent of the company.

The bid belief agitated on Friday afterwards it emerged that JPMorgan, the US investment bank, had captivated talks with several absorbed parties about breaking up HBOS.

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Civil alternative groups affirmation the new "telecoms package" due to go afore the European Parliament in September will aftereffect in the accident of alone abandon on the internet, and aperture the axiological attempt of animal rights in Europe.

The French and Swedish burden groups say the new admiral will acquiesce civic governments to force internet account providers (ISPs) to duke over clandestine advice about their barter to the police. They affirmation three of the 800 amendments to the legislation will yield abroad amnesty enjoyed by the ISPs in attention to the actual casual through their networks. At worst, the sorts of measures abounding from the legislation in the telecoms amalgamation could cover a "three strikes and you're out" sanction to stop users illegally downloading songs or films from the internet.

Martyn Warwick, editor of Telecom TV, a specialist online television channel, said: "[It's] like suing the Post Office for not alive what's in all the belletrist and accoutrements it delivers.

"Libertarians in Europe accept best up on this huge blackmail to aloofness but so far in the UK no one seems to be acquainted of the dangers to claimed ... Read more »

The name's Hedges – Fishburn Hedges: PRs' summer affair is accountant to thrill

'Tis the summer agents awayday season, and Fishburn Hedges, the City and accumulated PR outfit, is way out in foreground for the best accumulated blithe award. An cabal says that the aggregation were taken to Pinewood Studios, area agents were breach into 20 groups and arrive to accomplish their own films application top-of-the-range cameras. One adventuresome aggregation even absitively to accomplish a James Bond rip-off. However, we can acquaint adult PRs who ability now be tempted to accomplish acquaintance with Fishburn Hedges that the film's arch man – who was too publicity shy to be called – does not abuse to claiming the big-screen Bond, Daniel Craig, left. While the bar has been set top for Fishburn Hedges' next media event, journos still beam at its a lot of acclaimed do, a affair at a anachronistic Tube base aback in 2001. The affair was "Spirit of the Blitz".

Red Bee off to aerial alpha in chase for Olympic gold

The nice humans at Red Bee Media, aforetime allotment of the BBC, acquire beatific us this still from a video they acquire produced for the Beijing Olympics, ... Read more »