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Retail sales in Great Britain given lift as shoppers splash out
2025-04-27 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Retail sales in Great Britain rose last month amid a sharp increase in consumers spending at department stores, hardware shops and clothes outlets.Reflecting a stronger economic backdrop than feared, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed sales volumes rose by 1% on the month, although spending at supermarkets fell after a bumper month in January.City economists had forecast a 0.4% monthly fall amid weak levels of consumer confidence, after the economy came close to stagnation in the second half of last year as households tightened their belts.The figures will come as a boost for the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, after the governments independent economic forecaster slashed its growth forecasts for 2025 in half at the spring statement on Wednesday.The ONS also said on Friday that the UK economy grew by 0.1% in the final quarter of 2024, confirming its initial estimate made in February.However, it also revised up its growth estimates by 0.1 percentage points for each...
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RFID Journal Live!2025: Idaho National Lab, Selmark, United States Marine Corps Finalists for RFID Journal Awards
2025-04-27 02:45:05| Spiritual Career Counseling
The winners will be revealed at the RFID Journal LIVE! 2025 conference and exhibition to be held on May 6-8 in Las Vegas, Nevada.The 2025 RFID Special Achievement Award is being awarded to Dr. Antonio Rizzi, full professor of logistics and supply chain management in the University of Parmas Industrial Engineering DepartmentRFID Journal, the leading source of news and in-depth information regarding radio frequency identification (RFID) and other Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, has unveiled the finalists for this yearsRFID Journal Awards.This years entrants feature a wide range of projects from the complex and large-scale, to smaller implementations that demonstrate how RFID and IoT solutions have become the technology of choice for companies with the need to increase visibility in their supply chain, gain operational efficiencies and enhance customer satisfaction.The finalists hail from all around the world, including Italy, Brazil, Costa Rica, Germany, Turkey, Spain, the Unit...
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Doctors in end-of-life cases of two UK children can be named, court rules
2025-04-27 00:45:05| Spiritual Career Counseling
Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the UK supreme court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to tell their story.Isaiah Haastrup, aged 12 months, and Zainab Abbasi, six, were at the centre of life-support treatment disputes at the high court in London before their deaths in 2018 and 2019 respectively.During the proceedings, court orders were put in place preventing doctors involved in their care from being publicly named indefinitely.In a written ruling, the president of the supreme court, Lord Reed, said the need for restriction of freedom of speech must be established convincingly and that this had not been done by the two NHS trusts in the case.In the leading judgment, Lord Reed and Lord Briggs said: Weight can be given to the importance of protecting the medical and other staff of public hospitals against unfounded accusations and consequent abuse.However, the court should also bear in mind that the treatment of patients in public hospital...
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