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Tens of thousands of firms

'face collapse' without help

TENS of thousands of busi-
nesses are at risk of going under
without government support be-
cause of soaring energy bills, ac-
cording to insolvency experts.
Red Flag Alert, which monitors
the financial health of firms, told
the BBC previously profitable
companies are experiencing sig-
£110m EuroMillions nificant losses.
Among those that survive, many

jackpot Winner comes will be forced to make workers re-
dundant, the consultancy said.
Firms are waiting to hear if they
forward to Camelot will get help with their energy
bills.
Today( Thursday 8 Septem-
ber) the government, led by new
A claim has been received for a jackpot of more than £100m, Prime Minister Liz Truss, is ex-
the £110,978,200.90 EuroMil- making this win one of the coun- pected to announce significant are likely to lay off staff without bills.
"Businesses can't absorb these
lions jackpot prize from the Fri- try’s biggest. The record is £195m financial support for households government support. costs and they're going to be
facing an 80% rise in the energy
The government's plan is ex-
day, September 2 draw, Camelot that was scooped in July. price cap in October. pected to include some relief for forced very quickly into a decision
said. That lucky player was not iden- Businesses are not covered by businesses - but details are not about headcount or being able to
Friday’s winning numbers were the cap, however, and Red Flag is yet known. pay energy bills," said chief econ-
7, 12, 13, 20 and 45, with 3 and tified - but in May, Gloucester warning that more than 75,000 According to Red Flag, many omist Nicola Headlam. "That's go-
12 selected for the Lucky Star couple Joe and Jess Thwaite de- larger firms that are high energy firms will face a choice between ing to be the reality and it's com-
numbers. cided to reveal themselves as the users are at risk of insolvency or paying wages or paying energy ing down the track very quickly."
Only 15 UK players have won winners of £184m.

Woman who can smell Parkinson’s
4 in 10 families forced to

cut back on food in cost of disease helps scientists develop test

living crisis, says report kinson’s” has helped scientists terest of scientists who decided to test for Parkinson’s disease, with
There is currently no definitive
Her observation piqued the in-
A woman who can “smell Par-
develop a test to detect the dis- research what she could smell and diagnosis based on a patient’s
FOUR out of 10 families with tween the end of March and mid- ease. whether this could be harnessed symptoms and medical history.
school-age children have already way through June, provide a new The test has been years in the to help identify people with the If the new skin swab is success-
cut back on food and other essen- illustration of how soaring ener- making after academics realised neurological condition. ful outside laboratory conditions,
tials because of the cost of living gy bills and the effect of inflation Joy Milne, from Perth, Scotland, Years later, academics at the it could be rolled out to achieve
crisis, an official report said on on other prices is affecting both who has a heightened sense of University of Manchester have faster diagnosis.
Wednesday. families and those without chil- smell, could detect the condition. made a breakthrough by develop- The scientists believed the
The survey, by the Office for dren. The 72-year-old noticed her late ing a test which can identify peo- scent may be caused by a chem-
National Statistics, also warns The statisticians add that “par- husband Les developed a differ- ple with Parkinson’s disease using ical change in skin oil, known as
ent odour when he was 33 – some a simple cotton bud run along the
that around a third of parents say ents with a child aged five or over 12 years before he was diagnosed back of the neck. sebum, that is triggered by the
they will be unable to cover an were more likely to have cut back with the disease, which leads to Researchers use the sample to disease.
unexpected expense and that the on food and essentials (40 per parts of the brain become pro- identify molecules linked to the Ms Milne, who has a rare condi-
use of credit is increasing. cent) than people without de- gressively damaged over many disease to help diagnose whether tion which gives her a heightened
The report adds that nearly pendent children (34 per cent)” years. someone has the disease. sense of smell, is now working
half of people raising children are as a result.” Ms Milne described a “musky” While still in the early phases with scientists around the world
already finding it “very or some- They say that in addition “more aroma, different from his normal of research, scientists are excited to see if she can smell other dis-
what difficult to cover the cost of than a third of parents said they scent. Mr Milne died in 2015 aged about the prospect of the NHS eases such as cancer and tubercu-
energy bills” and that single par- could not afford an unexpected 65. being able to deploy a simple test. losis (TB).
ents are facing the most severe but necessary expense of £850”,
impact. in a further finding that will bol-
The findings, based on respons- ster the widespread demands for Holiday Inn hotels hit by cyber-attack
es to an Opinions and Lifestyle government action to stop people
Survey covering the period be- falling into poverty.
HOLIDAY Inn owner, Intercon- "booking channels and other ap- ed its response plans, including
tinental Hotels Group (IHG), has plications" had been disrupted appointing external specialists to
confirmed the company has been since Monday. investigate the breach.
hit by a cyber-attack. It manages the Holiday Inn, The company is also in the pro-
IHG, which has some of the Crowne Plaza and Regent hotels. cess of notifying regulatory au-
world's largest hotel chains, is- "IHG is working to fully restore
sued a statement saying it was in- all systems as soon as possible," thorities.
vestigating "unauthorised access" the company said. Last month, a Holiday Inn in Is-
to a number of its technology sys- IHG confirmed it was assessing tanbul was breached by LockBit,
tems. the nature, extent and impact of which released data stolen from
The UK-based company said its the incident and had implement- the company.