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Jimini’s is a French firm selling snacks made from dried crickets and worms which they've launched in the U.K. ... hoping to tickle British taste buds with alternative sources of protein. Linda goes to meet them.

Linda meets SoundOut, a fascinating firm which uses artificial intelligence and data from their two million plus reviewers to predict which songs will make it as hits. They claim to be able to predict the music charts with 80 per cent accuracy. And now they're branching out into predicting fashion trends and what will sell best in home wear shops as well. They've just launched a crowdfunding campaign to help finance their expansion.

Linda meets Amanda and Ian Thomson of specialist sparkling wines company, Thomson and Scott, and learns about their Skinny range of low sugar and no added sugar champagne and prosecco, which are now stocked in Selfridges.

Linda meets Anne Boden, the founder of a new bank launching in the New Year, and finds out just how you set up a bank from scratch to take on the big names in the High Street.

KwikSweep is a growing business specialising in rubbish disposal; building waste, household waste, garden refuse - you name it, they get rid of it. They've been making a name for themselves with their phone app which means you can arrange and pay for your rubbish pickup in a few taps on a mobile phone. They operate all over London but hope to develop into other cities soon.

Linda meets some of the winners at the first British Small Business Awards, organised by smallbusiness.co.uk, in association with the Federation of Small Businesses.

This week Linda meets the team behind Legal Cost Finance, a new venture with the simple aim of securing access to legal services for everyone. It's set up an innovative payment solution which spreads your legal costs over a fixed term.

Linda meets Jonathan Quinn, co-founder and CEO of World First, the international payments business.

Linda meets the self-sustaining Sun Rockers – all aged 50+ - of an unusual retirement community in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Sun Park’s been running for 5 years and its residents run everything there themselves – the shop, the bar and the entertainment.

Linda visits Charlie HR, an online HR platform which launched earlier this year, aiming to take the pain out of people administration. The company has already signed up over 2,000 companies to use its services. Linda chats to COO Ben Gateley about its free software tool, and the firm’s plans for the future.