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Freelance journalist - business, food, drink, retail, health.

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Writer, editor, videographer and blogger with more than 15 years' experience in magazine, newspaper and online journalism. Regular contributor to The Grocer, Balance Magazine and The Morning Advertiser and commentator on food & drink business issues in the broadcast media. When not writing in-depth features on business trends, I can be found chronicling life as an ultra long distance runner with type one diabetes at DiabeticDadRuns.com.

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Artificial sweeteners: Cure for obesity of dirty secret?

Artificial sweeteners: Cure for obesity of dirty secret?

Aspartame, ace K and sucralose have helped cut 30,000 tonnes of sugar from soft drinks. But as health concern…

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Lighting up off-grid Africa

Lighting up off-grid Africa

Off Grid Electric, a start-up launched by Oxford Saïd MBAs Erica Mackey and Xavier Helgesen, is powering a br…

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Sports nutrition: The rise of heroine chic

Sports nutrition: The rise of heroine chic

Size zeros might still rule the catwalks but a new ideal is emerging in gyms and on social media: tanned skin…

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Flatpack to the Future

Flatpack to the Future

Rob Brown reports on how Landsec is pioneering more efficient construction methods at 105 Sumner Street...

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How to find what moves you

How to find what moves you

Whether you're looking to fall in love with exercise for the first time or put the spark back in your schedul…

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Is there such a thing as green milk?

Is there such a thing as green milk?

The dairy industry has a problem: the 270 million dairy cows on earth burp too much. About 6% of methane emis…

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DataStrike 2025 Predictions: 2025 Tech Staffing and Economic Predictions

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By Rob Brown Verified, David Marshall
| VMblog.com Verified
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2025. Read them in this 17th annual VMblog.com series exclusive. By Rob Brown, president and COO of DataStrike As we move into 2025, the tech industry is entering a period of economic uncertainty that will force companies to reevaluate their staffing models, investment strategies, and operational priorities.
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Car showrooms change gear

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By Rob Brown Verified
| Property Week Verified
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Data centres clean up act

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By Rob Brown Verified
| Property Week Verified
Covid-19 didn’t just put people behind closed doors for the best part of two years – it put them online. Internet use exploded, with 62.5% of the global population having access to the internet by January 2022, up from just 26.6% in 2010 (DataReportal). Source: Shutterstock / Gorodenkoft The average internet user now spends 40% of their waking day online (Global Web Index). This migration online is generating mind-boggling volumes of data.
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