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How you manage contracts influences business relationships. The right contract management system (CMS) speeds up delivery, maintains consistency and reduces risks. This can help your organization avoid bottlenecks and missed deadlines. Renewals are crucial to reducing client churn, and using a CMS ensures customers get timely reminders. To understand what makes a system effective, start with the core features every …

Coach Todd Campbell is a respected football coach, U.S. Army veteran, and educator known for his leadership, discipline, and focus on building strong teams. Born and raised in Abilene, Texas, he grew up surrounded by the values of hard work, competition, and community spirit. Sport shaped much of his early life, inspiring a lifelong passion for teamwork and performance. After …

More than 100 business and charity leaders have signed an open letter calling on ministers to “lead the country’s transition toward a shorter working week”, amid a growing row over the future of the four-day week in local government. The letter, coordinated by the 4 Day Week Foundation, comes after Steve Reed, the local government secretary, criticised South Cambridgeshire District …

Virgin Media O2 is set to become the first UK mobile network to offer customers automatic satellite connectivity in areas with no phone signal, after striking a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink. The new service, O2 Satellite, will launch in the first half of 2026, giving users coverage in rural and remote regions where terrestrial masts are unavailable. The company …

Apple’s iPhone, Amazon and Virgin Atlantic have been named YouGov’s UK Advertisers of the Month for September, after each brand saw a sharp increase in consumer awareness of their advertising. According to YouGov BrandIndex, which measures the percentage of consumers who have seen an advert for a brand in the past two weeks, all three brands posted significant gains in …

The number of pensioners paying a punishing 60 per cent income tax rate has more than doubled in just three years, as frozen tax thresholds drag tens of thousands more older savers into higher tax bands. New figures from HM Revenue & Customs show that around 77,000 people aged 66 and over fell into the “60 per cent tax trap” …

Fawn and India Rose James, the granddaughters of late property and publishing magnate Paul Raymond, have received £23 million in dividends from the family’s billion-pound Soho property empire following another record year of rental income. The sisters inherited Soho Estates, which owns much of London’s West End, including bars, offices and restaurants, after Raymond’s death in 2008. Their combined wealth …

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is weighing plans to scrap the windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers in a bid to boost investment and revive economic growth. The energy profits levy (EPL), introduced in 2022 under Rishi Sunak amid soaring global energy prices, currently imposes an effective tax rate of 78 per cent on North Sea operators. The Treasury …

Virgin Group has been given the regulatory go-ahead to move forward with plans to operate a new international train service through the Channel Tunnel, paving the way for the first serious competition on the route in three decades. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) confirmed on Thursday that Virgin can proceed with its bid to use the Temple Mills …

by Tristan Gaudiaut, Driven by geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty and sustained central bank buying, the price of gold has reached record levels, gaining nearly 60 percent this year to pass the $,4,000-per-ounce mark this month (closing price average from October 1st to 27th). The level of demand for gold is now prompting questions about whether reserves of the commodity are being exhausted and if …