Facade firm faces collapse after 143 years in business
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Facade firm faces collapse after 143 years in business

Top Stories Tamfitronics A facade specialist impacted by Brexit and the Covid outbreak is set to appoint an administrator.Enfield-based M Price Group filed a formal notice of intention on 16 August.The firm – founded in 1881 by glass merchant Malcolm Price – specialised in installing aluminium curtain walling, windows and multi-material facade solutions at high-rise and commercial projects. Work included the Emirates football stadium (pictured).M Price’s annual accounts were overdue since April 2023, according to Companies House. Its most recent set of accounts, covering the financial year to 30 April 2021, described a pre-tax loss of £1.2m and a turnover of £29m, delivering a margin of -4.2 per cent.At the time, the firm said that “Brexit uncertainty was compounded by the coronavirus pandemic”, as the firm was hit by project delays and a drop in...
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New faces, old scandals: The familiar staleness of South Africa’s 2024 National Assembly
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New faces, old scandals: The familiar staleness of South Africa’s 2024 National Assembly

Politics tamfitronics We’ve sold ourselves on the story that these were watershed elections. But beyond the novelty of the ANC’s loss of majority, there is a familiar staleness.The National Assembly has taken shape this week. And although the parties holding on to the seats have changed, the people sitting in them evoke the same apprehension that has always itched under our collective collar. As in the past, there is a long line of characters who, euphemistically speaking, few would call stately.Scroll through the list of MPs and you will easily spot crooks, racists, race-baiters, troublemakers and general malefactors. All the major...
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The Two Faces of Indian Democracy
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The Two Faces of Indian Democracy

Politics tamfitronics “India is certainly the mum of democracy,” Top Minister Narendra Modi declared in March 2023 on the Summit for Democracy. It used to be an match hosted by the US Order Division to utter collectively the realm’s democratic powers for a “democratic renewal,” strive against authoritarian trends, and safeguard, amongst other issues, human rights. India used to be being positioned by its chief as no longer most efficient the realm’s largest democracy nonetheless furthermore its oldest. “The opinion of elected leaders used to be a total feature in faded India,” Modi acknowledged on the summit, “lengthy sooner than the reduction of the realm. In our faded narrative, Mahabharata, the important accountability of residents is described as deciding on their have chief.” Nonetheless there are as a minimal two variations of the occasions unfolding...
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Gen Z faces a ‘happiness versus actuality equation’ sooner than elections
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Gen Z faces a ‘happiness versus actuality equation’ sooner than elections

Politics tamfitronics Essentially essentially based on Statistics SA, kids (outdated 18 to 34) jabber 35% or 20.9 million of the inhabitants of South Africa. But, in step with statistics from the Electoral Commission of South Africa, simplest 11.7 million voters in this cohort are on the voters’ roll. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg by Getty Photos As South Africa marks 30 years since democracy, a fresh document by Flux Trends has stumbled on that Gen Z finds it now now not easy to connect with activism and political spaces.The building analyst team, in partnership with early life agency Pupil Village, surveyed 30 kids and...
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