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Four Whitbread-owned restaurants including Whitstable Beefeater and Brewers Fayres in Margate, Bexley and West Malling to shut
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Four Kent restaurants owned by the same company will shut, bosses have confirmed. The Long Reach Beefeater in Whitstable will close on ...
Man who bought 200 Land Rover Defenders in 2015 could make millions selling them
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A man who bought more than 200 Land Rover defenders less than ten years ago is now make profit on them, worth ...
First Aldi store set for Folkestone on former Silver Spring site on Park Farm Industrial Estate
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A new supermarket on the site of a former drinks factory will become a town’s first Aldi, bosses have confirmed. KentOnline revealed ...
Economy grows faster than expected in boost for Sunak
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Thanks for joining me. Rishi Sunak has been handed a boost to his election campaign after official figures showed economic growth was ...
Sale of Boots is shelved as shares plunge in US parent company
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The decision will spark fears that Boots stores could face closure or miss out on upgrades. Walgreens has already shut 650 Boots ...
Halifax in Gillingham and Lloyds Bank in Cranbrook to close in February 2025
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Major banks have announced plans to shut two more branches as closures continue across the county. Halifax in Gillingham High Street and ...
British car industry demands tax cuts as Vauxhall threatens to close factories
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Job openings have plunged by a fifth over the past year, signalling a rapidly cooling labour market that will boost hopes of ...
KFC branches in Dover, Maidstone and Crayford permanently closed
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Three Kent branches of KFC have permanently closed after the franchise holders went into administration. The fast food chain’s restaurants in Market ...
How the Bank of England could hand Starmer a £11bn windfall
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While this eased strain across financial markets and paved the way for lower borrowing costs, the programme’s consequences are now being felt ...
A fiscal storm is coming but nobody is battening down the hatches
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It’s one thing for the US, a dominant and dynamic economy, to max out the credit card, but quite another for almost ...