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Housebuilder Inland Homes are 'in good shape' with more projects in the pipeline, says Chief Executive Stephen Wicks

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Housebuilder Inland Homes are 'in good shape' with more projects in the pipeline, says Chief Executive Stephen Wicks
Inland Homes, a leading brownfield regeneration specialist and housebuilder has released it's half year results today. Earlier last week the company also announced it had received planning permission to develop a site in High Wycombe and has secured resolutions for planning consent to be granted at a number of other sites, taking its total pipeline to 2,340 permitted plots. So, good news for the housebuilders. How are the numbers looking? To tell us more, Nigel Cassidy was joined by Stephen Wicks, Chief Executive of Inland Homes.
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Stephen Wicks

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Totally plc release their full year results, aiming to be the UK's leading non-hospital healthcare provider

Nigel Cassidy
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Totally plc release their full year results, aiming to be the UK's leading non-hospital healthcare provider
Totally Plc, the company providing out-of-hospital healthcare across the UK, released it's latest full year results today. The AIM-listed company has big ambitions and is aiming to become the UK's leading provider in it's sector. The company's prospects have certainly appealed to some, Chairman Robert (Bob) Holt (also Chairman of Mears Group, DX, Lakehouse and a few others) purchased 76,977 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 17th. Bob joined Nigel Cassidy to discuss further.
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Bob Holt

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Businesses are 'sleepwalking' into disaster as Brexit approaches

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Businesses are 'sleepwalking' into disaster as Brexit approaches
Businesses are 'sleepwalking' into disaster as Brexit approaches. That's according to new data from the Cranfield School of Management and the British Standards Institution - that safeguards standards in business. They also found less than one-third of CEOs were confident of leading their firms to long term success. The report argues companies aren't taking enough risks because of 'rigid' ways of thinking. James Brydges spoke to Howard Kerr, CEO of the British Standards Institution.
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Howard Kerr

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Roxi Petroleum (now named Caspian Sunrise) announces new merger and name change to "accelerate growth onto a new level"

Nigel Cassidy
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Roxi Petroleum (now named Caspian Sunrise) announces new merger and name change to "accelerate growth onto a new level"
Last Friday, Caspian Sunrise, formerly known as Roxi Petroleum, doubled their size by merging with Eragon Petroleum Ltd - hence the name change. By changing the company name, the company intends to 'send a clear signal of its intent to reintroduce itself as a larger and transformed entity poised to accelerate growth onto a new level'. Joining Nigel Cassidy is Clive Carver, Chairman of Caspian Sunrise to discuss the newly-named company's plans.
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Clive Carver

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'Banking is not as profitable as it used to be,' says Mike Ingram on potential buyers of the Co-op bank

Nigel Cassidy
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'Banking is not as profitable as it used to be,' says Mike Ingram on potential buyers of the Co-op bank
Now, who'd like to own the Co-Op bank? The financial institution says potential buyers have expressed an interest but as yet there was "no certainty that an offer will be made". The Co-OP put itself up for sale last month. James Brydges spoke to Mike Ingram, Market strategist at BGC Partners about what the problems were, and who might finally take the plunge.
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Mike Ingram

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Will Twitter's paid membership option for businesses grow their user base and advertising revenue?

Nigel Cassidy
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Will Twitter's paid membership option for businesses grow their user base and advertising revenue?
Twitter's thinking of adding a paid membership option for businesses and power users. The micro-blogging service is canvassing opinion about charging people for access to enhanced version of Tweetdeck. The social network has struggled to grow its user base in recent years, while advertising revenues have declined. James Brydges spoke to tech journalist Chris Green.
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Chris Green

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Optimism remains resilient in the financial sector despite Wednesday's Article 50 trigger

Nigel Cassidy
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Optimism remains resilient in the financial sector despite Wednesday's Article 50 trigger
According to the latest CBI and PWC Financial Services Survey, sentiment in the financial services sector stabilised in the three months to March, due to a broadly resilient UK economy. So even in the wake of Theresa May announcing she will trigger Article 50 on March 29th, optimism amongst firms seems unchanged. Although things seem rosy now, what is the future looking like for businesses involved in financial services? To discuss further, Nigel Cassidy was joined by Andrew Kail, Head of Financial Services at PwC.
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Andrew Kail

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Why is inflation important and what does it mean?

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Why is inflation important and what does it mean?
Global Economist Jeremy Batstone-Carr gave an in-depth explanation of inflation to Nigel Cassidy on Share Radio Breakfast. Is it what the media and even Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, make it out to be?
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Jeremy Batstone-Carr

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Laundromat corruption - what can the government do?

Nigel Cassidy
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Laundromat corruption - what can the government do?
The Laundromat corruption story rumbles on. The Police and Financial Conduct Authority will examine allegations that Britain’s high street banks processed nearly $740 million dollars of a criminal Russian money laundering operation. But what steps can the government take to limit the amount of so called dirty money, processed by UK banks? James Brydges spoke to Michael McKee, partner at law firm DLA Piper, and a member of the International Regulatory Strategy Group of CityUK.
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Could there be an electric-powered commercial flight from London to Paris in 10 years

Nigel Cassidy
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Could there be an electric-powered commercial flight from London to Paris in 10 years
A new start-up says that it could offer an electric-powered commercial flight from London to Paris in 10 years. The plane would carry 150 people on journeys of less than 300 miles. Wright Electric says, the price of travel would drop dramatically if there was no jet fuel. British low-cost airline Easyjet has already expressed an interest. Graham Warwick, technology editor of Aviation Weekly and spoke to Share radio's James Brydges.
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