Childcare, Christmas Adverts and Self-employment

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Ten percent of England' childminders have quit taking 27,000 care places with them - why are people leaving the sector and what would it take to reverse the decline. This years of Christmas Adverts are filling up the breaks on commercial television but are they any good ? Sport centers and hospitals are trialing so called healthy vending machines as consumers demand something more substantial and nutritious than chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks. Have electric cars reached a tipping point where they are moving beyond well off first adopters and becoming more affordable for the regular motorist. Advertisers and marketeers are becoming wary about spending big on so-caller online 'influencers'. The number of young people starting their own businesses or becoming self-employed is on the rise, according to latest figures published by the Office for National statistic: Should we cheer or be feared?