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<title>It&#039;s the economy, stupid</title>
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<updated>2012-05-15T16:05:39+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[With the events in Greece and France as well as our own UK budget fresh in all our minds, we met with senior business leaders at an event in Chartered Accountants’ Hall to take stock of the economy and see what SMEs felt needed to be done in the next year to ensure a return to economic growth.]]></summary>
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<entry>
<title>The ingenuity of man</title>
<link href="http://www.closeinvoice.co.uk/blog/21/index.html" ></link>
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<updated>2012-04-30T14:51:17+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Churchill said there was no limit to the ingenuity of man – and looking back over the history of manufacturing its clear that he was right. ]]></summary>
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<entry>
<title>Bingo!!</title>
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<updated>2012-04-11T14:45:28+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[We’ve all been there. Sitting in a meeting listening to a speaker who leaves you agog at the buzzwords and management speak that mask a lack of knowledge of understanding of the subject material.]]></summary>
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<entry>
<title>Expanding your vocabulary</title>
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<updated>2012-03-12T17:08:45+00:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows the importance of vocabulary. We all remember struggling over pronunciation, repeating set phrases and trying our best to remember ways to keep these strange new words in our heads.
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<entry>
<title>A little more fizz please</title>
<link href="http://www.closeinvoice.co.uk/blog/16/index.html" ></link>
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<updated>2012-02-10T16:21:12+00:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Established as a health resort in 1860, famous faces such as Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson and German Nobel Prize winner for Literature Thomas Mann and even the great Arthur Conan Doyle spent time in the mountains of Switzerland soaking up the rarified air of the Alpine Ski Resort.]]></summary>
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<title>Faster than the speed of light</title>
<link href="http://www.closeinvoice.co.uk/blog/15/index.html" ></link>
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<updated>2012-01-30T11:12:23+00:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Before the 17th century scientists believed that there was no such thing as the ‘speed of light’. They thought that light could travel any distance in no time at all.
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<entry>
<title>A resolution worth sticking to</title>
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<updated>2012-01-11T11:39:31+00:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[After the overindulgence of the festive season many of us will, once again, make promises to get fit, quit smoking or make some improvements to our lives in the year ahead. ]]></summary>
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<title>Expect the unexpected</title>
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<updated>2011-12-07T14:23:10+00:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[“Every mile is two in winter”, so wrote 17th-century Welsh clergyman and metaphysical poet George Herbert, and I’m quite sure many of our transport and logistics firms would say amen to that too!]]></summary>
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<title>LEZ changes are looming – don’t let them drive your business into the ground</title>
<link href="http://www.closeinvoice.co.uk/blog/12/index.html" ></link>
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<updated>2011-11-16T11:38:15+00:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The Big Smoke of December 1952 in London was like none before – it created a blanket of sulphurous smog, so dense that visibility was less than half a metre and over the course of four days the polluted air killed some 4,000 people.]]></summary>
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<title>Holding out for a hero</title>
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<updated>2011-10-18T12:49:56+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[We all know the stories of Robin Hood and Zorro – swashbucklers on the big screen, whose legends live on in popular culture. 

But what of Jurag Janosik? George in English – but how many heroes do you know named George?

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<title>Taxing Times</title>
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<updated>2011-09-30T16:13:04+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[In one of those quirks of history, Winston Churchill, who once served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, apparently waged a lifelong battle with the taxman.

According to Inland Revenue files, Churchill, the nation’s wartime prime minister and his financial advisers went to extraordinary lengths to minimise the liabilities on his earnings – using every lawful opportunity to avoid tax. 
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<title>Builder wanted – must be reliable</title>
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<updated>2011-09-16T13:20:22+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Finding a good builder is about as easy as finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. We’ve all heard the horror stories of nightmare workmen, escalating costs and shoddy work and we’ve all struggled to find someone you trust enough to leave in your own home, who doesn’t blame the weather, the time or his tools for a botched job.]]></summary>
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<title>Chinese Whispers</title>
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<updated>2011-09-05T15:49:25+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Before Harry Potter and Lord Voldermort brought magic and mystery to young and old – there was David Copperfield. David Copperfield was one of the greatest illusionists of our time. With more awards than any magician in history, Copperfield packed out arenas and had us glued to our TV screens as he performed unbelievable illusions that saw him become one of the biggest celebrities of his generation. 
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<title>Down to the wire</title>
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<updated>2011-08-24T14:29:24+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[On June 30, 1859, Jean-Francois Gravelet dropped a bottle into a river. He then proceeded to pull up the bottle and drink from the water he had just collected.

Nothing strange or startling so far…but Jean-Francois was not just looking for a refreshing drink – he was in fact standing 180 feet above the Niagara River having ‘walked’ to the halfway point on his first attempt to tightrope across the Niagara Falls. 
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<entry>
<title>The good ship</title>
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<updated>2011-08-10T10:38:37+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[August – a month of sunshine, barbeques and holidays.  A time when bankers and politicians retire to their sun loungers and the newspapers are filled with frivolous stories of celebrity love lives and pictures of the world’s ugliest dog.]]></summary>
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<title>The great confidence trick</title>
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<updated>2011-07-27T16:04:57+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[“Confidence is contagious, but so is lack of confidence.” 

Vince Lombardi, one of the greatest coaches in the history of American football, may have been talking about what it takes to win on the football field, but his words strike a chord as we chart our way to economic recovery.
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<entry>
<title>Closing a successful business? You&#039;re having a laugh</title>
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<updated>2011-07-11T16:14:09+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[SHUTTING a successful business is not perhaps the first thing management think of when they come under pressure but that’s what has happened at News International with the closure of the News of the World.
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<entry>
<title>Financial tragedy - it&#039;s all Greek to me...</title>
<link href="http://www.closeinvoice.co.uk/blog/3/index.html" ></link>
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<updated>2011-06-23T11:32:52+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[AND I suspect it's all Greek to you, but unfortunately the drama unfolding in Athens is very real, economically and socially devastating and sadly has all the hallmarks of a Greek tragedy with far-reaching consequences.]]></summary>
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