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Sarah Manning, who many will remember as Sarah Jones from Mr. Box, has announced the launch of her new container supply company, Secure Stores Nationwide Ltd. Mr Box was taken over by American-owned Mobile Mini in 2016 where Sarah remained a director before leaving last year to start planning her new business venture.

Around 370,000 small businesses in the UK whose claims for compensation were rejected by their insurance companies following the coronavirus lockdown were thrown a lifeline today (15 January) following a ruling by the Supreme Court.

The staff at Ipswich-based insurance specialist Pound Gates have pledged to take 11 million steps in January in a bid to keep fit during lockdown and to raise funds for charity.

Home move comparison site reallymoving has revealed ten statistics that together tell the story of UK home movers during 2020; an extraordinary year that confounded most expectations in terms of housing market activity and price growth. The data is based on 910,000 quotes generated on the reallymoving site throughout the year.

The latest research by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed which cities in the UK had the highest levels of homebuyer demand in the final quarter of 2020.

Transport management software (TMS) provider Mandata in Newcastle, UK, has recently added Stirling Solutions to its group and formed the Mandata Group.

The rates of financial standing that vehicle operators need to attain to comply with the requirements of their Operators Licences has been reduced.

Lisa Rogerson, who publishes her step-by-step guide for people moving house HelpForMovers, has been acknowledged by Theo Paphitis, of Dragon’s Den fame, as one of his ‘Lucky Six’ in his Small Business Sunday competition on Twitter.

Amsterdam-based Atlas International Movers has announced the opening of its new office in Zurich, Switzerland.

Premier Relocation in the UK has opened operations in Barcelona and Madrid, known as Premier Spain, both run by James Broggi.

The organisers of The Movers & Storers Show have confirmed that the 2021 event will take place on 9-10 November, 2021 at Hanger ’42, Bruntingthorpe. The Leicestershire venue previously hosted the show in 2017.

Today, 10 December, the European Commission has announced the contingency measures that will apply to international road haulage in early 2021.

The National Audit Office (NAO) in the UK has issued a report into the preparedness of the UK for the end of the Brexit transition period describing the government's progress in implementing changes required to manage the border after 31 December, 2020.

NAEA Propertymark has joined forces with sector partners to write to the UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to highlight the emerging crisis in residential transactions, as sales progression and conveyancing are overwhelmed by demand in the race to complete before the end of the Stamp Duty Holiday on 31 March 2021.

Kangaroo Holdings Ltd, the owner of Scotland’s Kangaroo Self Storage and sister company Smart Storage, with units across North West England, has appointed Scott Christie as non-executive chairman.

Euromoving 2000 has announced a merger with the Phoenix Relocation Group SRL. The Milan-based company joined the Group on 30 September, 2020.

The cost of moving home in the UK has plummeted by 39% from £10,911 before the stamp duty holiday came into effect on 8 July, 2020 to £6,669 after, saving the average person buying and selling a home in the UK £4,242, according to reallymoving’s annual Cost of Moving research, released on 28 September, 2020.

Property law firm Collyer Bristow has urged the government to extend the stamp duty holiday beyond 31 March, 2021 to allow properties that have exchanged, but are yet to complete, to qualify.

With only a short time remaining until the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December, business group Logistics UK has reacted with incredulity at the UK government’s announcement of a Business Task Force to help firms prepare for the UK's final break with the EU, at such a late stage in the process.