Ministries, and the government body supposed to be the watchdog to ease regulations for small businesses and cut red-tape, seem to be tangled up in their own un-speak bureaucracy, according to The National Audit Office (NAO).
Small firms are feeling more positive about prospects for sales in the first quarter of this year.
UK businesses are getting better at paying their bills, according to credit reference agency Experian. Its Late Payment Index shows that on average, companies were settling invoices 2.06 days earlier in September than in the previous month.
Brighter days are on the horizon for the UK's hard-pressed manufacturing industry, according to data from the latest quarterly industrial trends survey by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
You learn something new every day. It seems that rooks (cousins of the crows, in case you didn't know) can fashion tools to help them get at food. Scientific experiments show that these birds have the nous to choose the right tools for the job and to use two tools one after another. Joined up thinking in action!

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