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Can a $290m film studio on a former cow paddock lure Hollywood to Perth?

Australia is drawing record levels of international screen production – and Western Australia is betting millions that Perth Film Studios can bring some of it west Tom Avison is just back from Los Angeles when I meet him at Perth Film Studios on a warm May morning. The studio’s inaugural chief executive was on a whirlwind sales trip, squeezing “about 16 or 17 meetings” into four days with the…

· 1 MIN READ · The Guardian Business (UK)
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Make pension tax relief only available to savers prepared to invest in UK, Andy Haldane says

British Chambers of Commerce chief calls for ‘home bias’ on retirement savings to close funding gap for SMEs Pension tax relief worth more than £50bn should only be offered to savers who are prepared to invest in Britain, according to Andy Haldane, the president of the British Chambers of Commerce. There should be a “home bias” that directs retirement savings into UK businesses, closing a funding…

· 1 MIN READ · The Guardian Business (UK)
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Ryanair adopts ‘free of charge’ family seating policy after watchdog investigation

Chief executive claims CMA has forced airline to adopt ‘less transparent and less consumer-friendly’ approach Ryanair has changed its family seating policy, after Britain’s competition watchdog launched an investigation into the airline’s charges for parents to sit with their children. Europe’s largest airline said that as of Thursday, adults would be offered “free of charge” seats next to their…

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Why we're paying more for locally grown food than imports – video

British apples grown at home are often more expensive than apples shipped from countries thousands of miles away. And it's not just apples. Bananas, which are virtually all imported from tropical countries, are consistently the cheapest fruit available per kilogram on UK supermarket shelves. Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates the peculiar economics of supermarket fruit, and discovers there are…

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Rome airports threaten to suspend new EU passport system to avoid summer ‘disaster’

Airports CEO says letting non-EU passengers skip entry-exit system would be only way to avoid peak season travel chaos Rome’s airports will have to suspend the EU’s new digital border system for non-EU citizens to avoid a “disaster” during the peak tourism summer months, according to the head of the airports company. Marco Troncone said that allowing passengers to skip the biometric entry-exit…

· 1 MIN READ · The Guardian Business (US)
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