Dave ☕
@MorpethLarder
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Independent retailer of the year. Coffee Shop, Eatery, Delicatessen & Meeting Place. Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch & Afternoon Tea. Alfresco Eating 🍷🍴☕🍰 🇬🇧 WiFi
Morpeth, Northumberland
Joined May 2010
Employer NI went from 13.8% to 15% in April 2025. The threshold dropped from £9,100 to £5,000. That's an extra £937.80 per employee per year. Since then, payrolled employees have dropped by 184,000 and unemployment just hit its highest level since 2015. Nobody's connecting the
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Labour was elected in July 2024 with an overriding promise to accelerate economic growth. We now now have its record for its first full calendar year, 2025: Q1: 0.7% Q2: 0.2% Q3: 0.1% Q4: 0.1% So, far from stimulating the economy, the dead hand of Starmer-Reeves has knocked the
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Labour MPs to be banned from hotels, cafes and restaurants now too… we aren’t f*****g around in hospitality, these @UKLabour MP’s need to know that they are destroying Hospitality. Destroying lives & destroying town centres & villages. BARRED https://t.co/VDYRwljyfQ
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A partial U-turn on business rates for pubs and some music venues today. But... It won’t help restaurants. It won’t help cafes. It won’t help hotels. It won't help shops. It won't help pharmacies. It won't help nightclubs. It won't help hairdressers. And… it’s temporary.
Pubs given £80m support package after business rates backlash
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🧀 Famous for a Reason… Our Handmade Cheese Scones! 🧀 Freshly baked, golden on the outside and irresistibly fluffy on the inside – our handmade cheese scones are a true Morpeth Larder favourite. If you know, you know… and if you don’t, it’s time to find out! 😉
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If the Business Rates U Turn is only on pubs, the rest of the sector will be up in arms! It has to cover all Hospitality. Restaurants, Hotels, cafes, Live Music venues etc…
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Back open tomorrow morning from 9.00am, escape the family with us 😘or better still bring them with you 🤔
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To all our customers we wish you a Merry Christmas, you will find us back open on Saturday 27th 9.00am, after our fabulous staff have a well deserved rest with their families. 🎄
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Rishi Sunak: Tax rises at Autumn budget would crush confidence
cityam.com
Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that raising taxes would crush confidence in the UK and depress growth.
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