The government’s Help to Grow: Digital Scheme is to be expanded to businesses with fewer than five employees, which will see over a million businesses eligible.

Begbies Traynor Group has acquired Axiom Consulting & Investments Limited and Ellayaan Limited and their subsidiary undertakings, which together trade as Mantra Capital, a London-based property finance brokerage

The number of restaurant insolvencies has shot up by 64% from 856 in 2020/21 to 1,406 in the past year as rising inflation and labour shortages drive restaurants out of business