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    How can HR incorporate SMS to reach employees?

    26th February 2019

    Last year’s ‘Beast from the East’ created a HR nightmare, with many employees left wondering if their workplace was open whilst many employers struggled to communicate with their teams. So how can HR teams quickly get in touch with all members of the team in an emergency? And how can…

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    GP Sustainability Loan Fund

    22nd February 2019

    The closing date for funding applications under the GP Sustainability Loan Fund for the financial year 2018/19 was 12 December 2018 and over 170 GP practices submitted applications.  The Scottish Government will make funding decisions on the first round of applications by 25 February 2019, and many of Blackadders’ GP…

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    Brexit – What NOT to do

    22nd February 2019

    With so many Brexit questions unanswered, financial advisers the length and breadth of the United Kingdom are being asked the same question by anxious investors, ‘What should I do?’ This is a difficult question to answer with so many potential outcomes. Perhaps turning the question around will provide easier answers…

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    There’s still time to top-up your State Pension

    18th February 2019

    If you are in a position where you want to top up your State Pension then there’s still time to do so before a price rise is being introduced in April.  Depending on your circumstances, paying voluntary National Insurance contributions to fill gaps in your National Insurance contribution record can…

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    Cupid’s arrow in the workplace

    13th February 2019

    Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and love is in the air (cue supermarket meal deals, paying over the odds for red roses and love mixtapes) and as the old adage goes, love knows no bounds; cupid’s arrow can – and does – strike in the workplace. This will…

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    Who do you think you’re talking to?

    13th February 2019

    Disruption. It’s everywhere, isn’t it? Well maybe not everywhere. Maybe not in the ever-so-neat way we parcel up the target audience. In fact, scratch a little deeper and you might discover that many of us in the industry suffer from something called middle-class myopia. It’s not a life-threatening condition but…

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    Love knows no boundaries, so employers must set them

    11th February 2019

    The growing #MeToo movement might have caused a decline in office romances, but with the average Briton racking up 42 hours of work each week, it is no surprise that many still meet their other halves at the office. While a third of office romances lead to marriage – as…

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    TD Tree & Land Services showcase habitat creation work 2019.

    11th February 2019

    We recently filmed a couple of our Habitat Creation projects to show some of the work that our Tree Surgeons and Ecologists do to improve the natural environment. With so much of Scotland’s natural habitat having been lost to development, agriculture and intensive forestry this type of habitat creation is…

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    The urban forest: our most sustainable wood fuel resource?

    4th February 2019

    Some thoughts on our city’s green infrastructure and its use as a fuel source. The benefits of our urban trees are well documented, we know for example that they aid heat amelioration, improve air and water quality and improve urban drainage helping to prevent flooding.  They are also responsible for…

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    What is menu engineering?

    4th February 2019

          Your restaurant’s menu is your number 1 generator of sales. Menus and display boards have unexploited sales potential which menu engineering can optimise. Largely ignored by traditional marketers, this innovative tool generates a substantial improvement in restaurants’ average orders and margins. What is menu engineering, then? And how…

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