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Napoleon once famously referred to the UK as a nation of small shopkeepers. Although times have changed with international business threatening in some places to take over our high streets, the tradition of small business and entrepreneurship still stands firm. It is in partial recognition of this that one of the key aims of the Government is the encouragement of new business with various measures being introduced in the last Budget to encourage business and enterprise. Despite this Government encouragement the grim statistics still show a high rate of failure within the first three years of a new businesses life....