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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Guy Clapperton

The week's events

Everybody's back from holiday by now, and business owners aren't so much miserable to be back as sad they went in the first place - a lot of reaction from readers over that one - feel free to add more. Not going on holiday will be a bit of a choker for the people who are apparently starting up businesses as though there were no tomorrow. Unless of course those figures are plain wrong.

Road safety whilst demonstrating an iPod(!) was in the headlines, coincidentally in the same week that Apple hogged the headlines over its new iPod Phone, the ROKR. Funny how it's always the iPod that gets namechecked.

There was more on discrimination, both age-related and non-specific. Just as long as you're not a young person, that's OK - if they're really getting qualifications with these marks then someone on a board somewhere needs a maths lesson.

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