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"The up-front cost of a heat pump is still a major barrier. As well as the installation itself, you may find you need to invest in other work that needs to be done to get the system working efficiently, such as improving your home insulation, or installing bigger radiators or underfloor heating."

While Joe Biden visits Ireland, Brexiteers said their closest EU neighbour would be “doomed” – now it’s set to be the top-performing economy in Europe this year.
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Lack of consumer support and inadequate energy efficiency assessments blamed for a slow start to the government's Boiler Upgrade Scheme
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/heat-pump-grant-scheme-comes-under-fire-for-low-take-up-awIHk1n8QdwK

Canary Wharf: Spectacular photos of skyscraper rediscovered.
Amid strong winds, Tony Brien sat in a wooden box suspended by a crane some 250m above east London to capture the images of One Canada Square.
Previously believed to have been lost, the photographs were uncovered during a search of Mr Brien's archives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65274803

Colin Bird busy busy man..same age as me.

"Colin Bird is a British entrepreneur and businessperson who founded Pan African Resources Plc, Jubilee Metals Group Plc, Kiwara Ltd. and Kiwara Resources Ltd. and who has been at the helm of 15 different companies. Currently, Mr. Bird is Executive Chairman for African Pioneer Plc, Executive Chairman at Kendrick Resources Plc, Executive Chairman of Tiger Royalties & Investments Plc, Executive Chairman for Xtract Resources Plc, Non-Executive Chairman at Bezant Resources Plc and Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Galileo Resources Plc. Colin Bird is also on the board of 19 other companies."
https://www.marketscreener.com/business-leaders/Colin-Bird-05SCW8-E/biography/

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REGIME CHANGE FOR RUSSIA.

Ince (LON:INCE)
A wipe-out for shareholders of this legal/accountancy group. It announced yesterday afternoon that a major creditor was withdrawing support, so it has no choice but to appoint an administrator. Hence shares suspended, and almost certainly worth nothing. We’ve been strenuously warning SCVR readers away from this share for years, so I very much hope nobody here was caught on this one. It’s staggering how inept many accountants seem to be at managing their own affairs - this being the latest in a series of disastrous listed firms of this type. I remember joking with Ric Traynor, the boss of Begbies Traynor (LON:BEG) a few years ago, that his firm seemed to be (at the time) the only one that hadn’t gone bust, and he agreed, calling BEG the last man standing in its field of listed rivals. That was before FRP listed, which has done OK so far.

INCE going under reinforces my resolve to completely avoid all of these people businesses where there’s an inherent conflict between fee earners and outside shareholders. INCE seems to have been staggeringly badly run - see our archive here for the whole sorry INCE tale.

13.5p BUY

lloyds gone Xdiv of 1.6p today

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. CEO Warren Buffett said on Wednesday that "we're not through with bank failures yet" following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank in the United States. However, he said people "do not need to be panicked" about the state of the banking sector, adding that he would be "willing to bet" that depositors in the US will not lose their money if any other bank fails.
Buffett told CNBC that "people don't understand" that the costs related to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which stepped in to protect SVB deposits, are "borne by the banks" and have "never cost the federal government a dime." Buffett also criticized the US banking system for not adequately "connecting punishment to culprits," adding that flaws in the system will result in "periodic crises unnecessarily."
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dropped to $2004
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Running Twitter has been "quite painful" and "a rollercoaster", Elon Musk has said, in a hastily arranged live interview with the BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65248196

Sounds like the interview he requested...
on the BEEB radio 4 this morning

GAZZ
Spend it on yourself as your heirs will probably squander it !

Centuries-old lace maker behind Princess of Wales’s wedding dress hit with ‘terminal’ post-Brexit bill
When Kate Middleton, the future Princess of Wales, walked down the aisle to marry Prince William, her wedding dress was decorated with elegant Cluny lace.

It was something of a family tradition, Princess Diana also had the traditional leaver’s lace embroidered on her wedding dress when she married King Charles, then the Prince of Wales.

But now Cluny Lace, a family-owned company over seven generations, which began making lace in the 1760s, is facing closure. The owner claims he has been struggling because of HMRC’s implementation of complicated post-Brexit duty rules.

Almost three centuries of fashion expertise and the painstaking art of intricately woven leaver’s lace is set to disappear from Britain forever.

PAYWALL REMOVED please read........
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CAML - Central Asia Metals - Q1 2023 Operations Update
PXC - Phoenix Copper Ltd - Exploration Drilling Results at the Empire Mine

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