Government announce they are scrapping Business Link In a move that has been spoken about since the Conservative party commissioned, the entrepreneur and past TV Dragon, Doug Richard to produce The Richard Report looking at Small Business and the Government in 2008. The findings were that Business Link was 'unfit for purpose', the now Conservative/Liberal Government has announced that Business Link is to be scrapped.

Lloyds TSB to cut business overdraft fees from December From December Lloyds TSB is cutting the daily and monthly fees for customers who go overdrawn without permission and will halve to £10 the fee for bouncing a cheque or electronic payment.

The key points from the Budget The Chancellor George Osborne today called the called the measures in this historic Budget "unavoidable," and announced a raft of changes to tax and spending. The key news from today's Budget was:

What should we expect from George Osborne's budget today? The Chancellor George Osborne will unveil the new coalition government's emergency budget at 12.30pm today. He has already indicated the budget will be the tightest in decades, based on a pledge for a rapid reduction in the deficit. Osborne has hinted at public sector pay freezes, a bank levy, capital gains tax changes, reform of the benefits system and a holiday in National Insurance contributions for new firms in hard-hit areas.

Confidence grows amongst Britain’s top entrepreneurs, but one in ten might leave the UK Access to capital could hinder the plans of entrepreneurs. Only 6% expect it to be ‘easy’ to secure funds over the next 12 months

Business owners look to Osborne's budget for assistance Business leaders have called on Chancellor George Osborne to use his emergency Budget to foster business growth as well as tackling the public deficit.

PR and marketing are great, but don’t forget cold-calling I was chatting with 4Networking’s director of strategy, Tim Johnson, yesterday evening about what has made 4Networking what it is, four years on from launching. So what is it?

Prepare for cutbacks if you have public sector contracts Companies with public sector contracts are being urged to prepare for inevitable cuts so that they can avoid the risk of having, possibly immediate, financial problems as Chancellor George Osborne prepares for the deepest public sector cuts Britain has seen post the second World War.

The six rules to making healthy profits Tens of thousands of small businesses are only one step away from making more profit than their rivals, new research by Warwick Business School suggests.

Has the 'tax man' become the UK’s largest bank? Company insolvencies have decreased in the first quarter of 2010 by 8.4% bringing the 12-month figure to a total of 4,082, a decrease of 17.8% year-on-year. But the figures could be hiding a secret tsunami of corporate failures, with HMRC being treated as a lender of last resort rather than a tax collector, but now as HMRC increasingly flexes its muscles. We spoke to Steve Clancy, Partner at MCR Tax Arrears Solutions, a specialist in this area for his opinion.

The price of happiness? £40k per year say bosses What gets you going? What motivates entrepreneurs to start and build a business from scratch? It isn’t the money according to a new survey findings

Card business scoops 11 year old top honour at enterprise awards A new generation of entrepreneurs was unveiled yesterday at the Institute of Directors in London by a panel of leading business experts with students from 21 schools and colleges crowned winners of Make Your Mark with a Tenner 2010.

VAT 'will rise' to 20 percent VAT is set to rise under the new coalition government, according to a survey of influential economists.

The business reaction to the new government We have spoken to leading entrepreneurs and commentators within the British Small & medium sized business community to get their thoughts and reaction to the new Conservative & Liberal coalition government.

David Cameron is the new Prime Minister David Cameron has become the youngest British Prime Minister after Gordon Brown resigned bringing to an end 13 years of Labour rule. But as the government is, it appears, to be a coalition with the Liberal Democrats where does this leave the manifesto plans related to business?

Workers turn to the internet for election news at their desk Workers are flocking to the internet to keep up-to-date with the activities surrounding the ongoing general election process, with one ISP claiming they are seeing a 400 per cent increase on normal online activity.

Business gives resounding backing to David Cameron The Business Matters poll, run over the past four weeks with our partners Trends Research, has seen UK business owners give a huge backing to David Cameron with over half of those that took part voting for the Conservative party and resigning Gordon Brown's Labour party to third place.

Heseltine confident that Cameron will be next PM Lord Heseltine was the first to warn of the dangers of a hung parliament, but the former deputy prime minister is now "confident" David Cameron will succeed Gordon Brown as Prime Minister.

Next government needs to embrace 'can do' entrepreneurs British public put economic recovery in the hands of new businesses and call for the next Government to make help for new entrepreneurs a priority

Notworkers – that’s how not to network I was having a chat with someone recently about 4N, and explained to him that, unlike some business networking groups, we don’t restrict the number of people from each industry that can attend our events. They're open to any number of businesses, a simple case of the more the merrier.