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Reports suggest another 11,000 staff could go in the next five years

Key cutter Les Brannan, who has worked at LJB Rutherfords for 42 years, is the last market trader in Northampton and is losing £800 a week after more than 200 others shut up shop

Ahead of Jeremy Hunt's Budget announcement tomorrow, the Mirror spoke to a pub trade expert about the state of the industry and the best-case scenario for landlords

Never having to work for someone else again sounds like a dream come true for the majority of side hustlers, study finds

Helen Ashton, 60, from Leicester turned her lifelong passion for art and painting into a business five years ago and it now earning thousands on the side of her day to day job

Sacrificing weekends, money and time with loved ones were some of the hardest decisions to make for SMEs, study finds

The high charges are also holding them back from hiring new staff, and cutting the price of their goods and services, according to research

The city with the most side-hustlers is Sunderland, which holds the most hard-working residents outside of their regular 9-5s.

Laura Thurgood and Danielle Laight, from the West Midlands, are battling over who had the right to use the name "Wash Wiggle and Wag" for their rival dog grooming businesses

Nick Price thinks tipping has got out of hand in the US - and so do his coffee shop customers. He has now taken on a new business strategy, which he says is better both for customers and his employees

Self taught baker Amy can replicate anything with fondant icing and has made cupcakes with miniature McDonald’s Big Macs, KFC chicken meals, a Greggs sausage rolls, steak and chips, and even a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts

But they are happier to seek support at work or in their career - with nearly six in 10 even claiming that doing so has helped them progress in their career, the research found

A British teenager started flogging items on eBay in his bedroom. Now, Ben Ewart's company receives a whopping 25,000 orders a month - and he's been given the Young Entrepreneur Award

Chloe Homan, 32, from Tennessee, is the first to admit she had no idea how to manage her curly hair growing up. But, she said she always embraced her curls even when the hairstyle was "frowned upon" in the late nineties and early 2000s.

The Snowball app was designed by entrepreneur, Simon Sansome, to allow the disabled community to review accessibility credentials for amenities like shops and restaurants

Emma Ayles' Caddy Shack, which is in Weymouth, Dorset, has been a big hit with customers and dog walkers but one neighbour appears to have destroyed her livelihood

Meanwhile, more than a fifth were worried about tax hikes, and the risk of recession, while 19% said rising business rates were their biggest concern, the research found

The caring daughter was left heartbroken after she feared all of her mum's hard work had gone to waste. Thankfully, their story had a happy ending as help came from an unexpected source

Six in 10 say the weeks leading up to Christmas are their most important time of year - with a fifth admitting their festive revenue could define their growth for the year ahead

But luckily, this Christmas, help is on hand for stressed shoppers - from a professional psychic, who claims to be able to reveal the perfect presents for even the hardest to buy for

A drink's recipe which dates back to the turn of the last century, when businessman Antonio Vacarra emigrated from Italy to the UK has created a £4million empire for great-great-grandson

A 'marginal gains mindset' refers to gradual improvements, that build up to boost performance - and this mentality can help with quality control and product development, research has found

Karl Pountney has been offered everything from boxing belts to canal barges in the family-run Uncle's The Original Pawnbrokers in Birmingham where he has worked since he was a youngster

Harry Reynolds, 26, is the founder of the London Card Show which is now Europe's biggest event for card collectors and it all started with a small £10 investment

Hairdresser Allan Iveson learned from a customer that landlords wanted to convert his salon into a takeaway. He has now admitted defeat and has said an emotional goodbye to customers on Teeside after 45 years