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Finding common ground in fashion between parents and teenagers can feel like navigating a minefield. Teens are exploring their identities, often pushing boundaries, while parents strive to instill values of appropriateness, budget consciousness, and style that lasts beyond a single season. Despite these differing priorities, there are spaces where both generations can meet in the middle—where style, practicality, and personality …

Alysia Steele did not build her career overnight. It was shaped over decades of showing up, meeting deadlines, and doing the work when no one was watching. Her path moved through newsrooms, classrooms, archives, and communities. At each step, she focused on craft, responsibility, and people. Today, Steele is recognized as a leader in photojournalism and oral history. Her work …

Aileen Wisell is a Boston-based graphic designer who has built a steady, respected career in visual communication. Her work focuses on helping businesses clarify their message and express it through thoughtful, well-structured design. She specialises in logos, websites, and marketing materials that support long-term brand growth rather than short-term trends. Raised in Massachusetts, with formative years spent in Portland and …

Greater adoption of agentic artificial intelligence could help rejuvenate Britain’s sluggish economy, according to business and technology leaders speaking at an AI summit held at the House of Lords. The event, chaired by Steven George-Hilley, founder of Centropy PR, brought together senior figures from the technology, legal, financial services and cybersecurity sectors to examine how AI is reshaping economic growth, …

The government has announced a £150 million cash injection for struggling high streets across the UK, but small business owners and industry leaders have warned the funding risks being little more than a “trivial sticking plaster on a gaping economic wound”. The funding, unveiled as part of a forthcoming High Streets Strategy, will be targeted at town centres hit hardest …

The billionaire brothers behind Betfred have topped the Sunday Times 2026 Tax List, after paying an estimated £400.1 million to the UK Treasury, making them the country’s biggest individual taxpayers. Fred and Peter Done, founders of the betting empire, took the top spot in the annual rankings, with around half of their contribution linked to gambling duties generated by Betfred’s …

Karachi: Former Vice President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) and former Senior Vice President of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Hanif Lakhani, has welcomed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s recent incentive package for the export industry. He termed the Prime Minister’s initiative an essential step toward the revival of the country’s manufacturing …

The UK Government is facing renewed pressure to freeze hotel business rate revaluations, after Northern Ireland moved to halt the process following an outcry from hospitality operators. Hotel owners and advisers warn that without similar action in England, Scotland and Wales, many operators will be hit with unsustainable cost increases from April 2026, on top of higher employment taxes and …

Rising taxes and operating costs forced more than one in five UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to make redundancies last year, underlining the growing strain on business owners as financial pressures mount. A survey commissioned by Rathbones, one of the UK’s largest wealth and asset management groups, found that 21 per cent of SME leaders were compelled to cut …

HM Revenue & Customs is preparing to embark on a technology spending programme worth more than £2 billion over the next two years, as long-running efforts to modernise its ageing IT estate continue to run into delays and rising costs. According to HMRC’s latest procurement pipeline, the tax authority will begin with a large-scale data warehouse transformation programme, expected to …