UK companies attending Automechanika Dubai from 10 to 12 November 2026 can reach trade buyers and sector specialists based in the Gulf, Africa and Asia. London, UK: Suppliers of UK automotive aftermarket products will gain stronger access to the six Gulf states under the UK-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) free trade agreement. The UK and the GCC finished negotiating in May 2026, and the deal will apply once ratification is complete on each side. Full implementation will see tariffs lifted on around 93% of UK exports to the GCC. Across current UK exports, the UK government puts annual duty savings at…
Author: David Ashworth
David Ashworth
David Ashworth spent fifteen years in print and digital journalism covering UK news. He started at a regional evening paper in the North West, moved to a national digital outlet, and spent four years as a business and economics correspondent before going freelance. He writes about the economy, public finances, employment, and the corporate news that lands differently depending on whether you read it from a boardroom or a break room. He files on deadline and prefers evidence to opinion. David lives in Lancaster. He reads the ONS releases before most people have read the headlines about them, and considers the lag time instructive.
Figures held by Alto, the estate agency software company, have been used to pinpoint the ten strongest places in the UK to invest in a holiday home by the sea. Southwold in Suffolk, a picturesque town, led the rankings, comfortably outperforming the wider market after values climbed 94% over ten years, from £231,236 to £448,106. Second place went to Sandbanks in Dorset, the millionaires’ playground, where a 93% surge took prices from £664,655 to £1,282,565. In third spot, prices in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, increased by 75%, moving from £129,363 to £227,022. Alto, which supplies property management software and is linked…
As companies push into foreign markets, clashes with overseas suppliers or competitors have become a routine part of commercial life. Handling one of these clashes like a purely domestic quarrel rarely works, since unfamiliar courts, rival legal traditions and local business habits reshape nearly every choice that follows. Counsel who grasp which approaches suit disputes between businesses in different countries can tune their response to the circumstances genuinely before them. No Two Disputes Across Borders Need the Same Blueprint What a manufacturer facing a defective-goods claim from a supplier overseas should do looks nothing like the approach a technology firm…
Lake Garda is Italy’s largest lake, and its western shore is the most distinctively Mediterranean stretch of inland water in the entire Alpine region. Lemon and olive groves tumble down to the water, the air carries a warmth that persists well into autumn, and the light on the lake in late afternoon is the kind of thing that makes guests understand, immediately, why this place has been drawing travellers for centuries. The search for a hotel that matches this setting with genuine luxury, a spa, a serious table, rooms worthy of the panorama, reflects a guest who wants the landscape…
İstanbul Expo Center will once again welcome the International Carpet and Flooring Expo (ICFE), whose fourth edition is scheduled for January 6 to 9, 2027. With more than 500 exhibitors and close to 35,000 trade professionals from in excess of 150 countries expected, the show aims to open new channels for global business and collaborative ventures. Istanbul, Türkiye: The International Carpet and Flooring Expo (ICFE) 2027 will be held at the Istanbul Fair Center (İFM), with the halls open January 6 to 9, 2027. Support for the fair comes from the Southeastern Anatolia Carpet Exporters Association (GAHIB) and the İstanbul…
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt: A far-reaching line-up of live entertainment, gala performances, DJs and international artists will see in 2027 at the flagship resorts of Rixos Hotels Egypt in Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Alamein and Alexandria. Internationally recognised performers, live bands, DJs and bespoke staged shows form the backbone of the New Year programme, shaped so that guests collect festive memories in several of Egypt’s most coveted destinations, with celebrations running past New Year’s Eve and into the first week of January. Festivities at Rixos Premium Seagate open on 31 December 2026, when Alexandra Stan headlines beside JO Squillo, DJ…
Istanbul’s Tüyap Fair and Congress Center will once again host the Eurasia Window & Door and Eurasia Glass Fairs from 21 to 24 November 2026, bringing together leading names in construction, trailblazing technologies and purchasers from markets abroad. Istanbul, Türkiye: Ranked among the most consequential trade events anywhere in Eurasia, the fairs continue to serve as a strategic hub for business, connecting dealers, wholesalers, architects, manufacturers, project developers and sector specialists based in Türkiye with their peers across the globe. Reed Tüyap Fairs Inc. organises the events jointly with PÜKAD (Window and Door Sector Association), PÜKAB (Window Producers Quality Association)…
Sends, a UK-headquartered fintech that delivers payment solutions to individuals and businesses alike, took its place among delegates at the Payments Leaders’ Summit UK, an event that ran across 20 and 21 October in London; while there, the company’s chief executive, Alona Shevtsova, guided proceedings at the Women in Business Lunch, convening influential women spanning financial services, technology and the wider commercial sphere to debate leadership, career advancement and what the future holds for women in the industry. That gathering unfolded on 20 October within the InterContinental London Park Lane, drawing in Maggie Bazemore, Systems Director at Mr & Mrs…
Studio know-how will be passed on, and cross-border production cooperation strengthened, under an agreement formalised at MIPCOM Cannes. The opening phase of Shams Production Hub, due to begin in Q1 2027, is built around five purpose-built sound stages. CANNES, France: Sharjah Media City (Shams), a leading UAE freezone authority, and Origo Studios, one of Hungary’s leading film studio complexes, have formalised at MIPCOM Cannes a strategic partnership that supports the creation of Shams Production Hub in Sharjah, UAE. Under the agreement, Origo Studios will deliver a three-phase training and knowledge-transfer programme, preparing colleagues at Shams to run the facility to…
When funds are stretched thin, even everyday spending decisions can begin to feel overwhelming. Where a household has little financial slack, an unbudgeted purchase can look like something requiring an immediate verdict, with apparently no space to stop, think it over and come to a measured choice. For some homes, the upshot can be repeated bouts of panic spending, a habitual reliance on credit, and mounting difficulty keeping up with debt repayments, all of which make financial distress more likely. Breaking free of panic spending patterns need not mean reconstructing a household’s whole financial life from the ground up. Setting…