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Why You Should Beautify Slides for Better Engagement and Clarity

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The majority of great presentations do not contain presentations about how to make beautiful pictures, but rather they contain clear, concise messages with pictures to help make the ideas simple to comprehend, good to remember, and more visually engaging.

When the audience is confronted with a pile of text on a page that has a varied color scheme or a poor layout, they will not pay attention to what’s being presented. That’s when the need for learning how to beautify presentations becomes an essential part of the overall communication process — no matter what the situation may be: whether it be an introduction of a product, an educational presentation, or an exchange of information with others.

By choosing to use beautiful images from the beginning of your presentation, you establish the ground rules for your presentation — in respect to clarity, confidence, and connection.

Most of the time when someone brings up the subject of presentation design, they believe it only makes the presentation beautiful, while in reality, making slides beautiful takes away friction between your ideas and your audience. Clean layouts provide visual guidance for the eye, balanced spacing reduces cognitive load, and visual hierarchy informs the viewer of what is most important to him. Every time you beautify your slides with thoughtfulness, you are not just decorating them, you are translating your complexity into a format that can be easily digested by an audience. Because of this, presentations that have taken the time to beautify their slides consistently outperform presentations that were made in a hurry.

Turning Information into Visual Flow

One of the many benefits of creating visually appealing presentations is the enhancement of the delivery of your presentation story. Attractive slides are not merely accessories but assist your audience in progressing through the flow of your presentation. By using consistent fonts, aligned elements, and intentional use of colour too (or vice-versa), all slides become part of a larger presentation narrative instead of being disjointed, isolated screens. Your audience is much more comfortable and receptive to your messages when all parts of the presentation work well together. As long as you have properly created aesthetically attractive presentations, the data on your slides should be simple and easier to digest.

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This is one of the challenges faced by many presenters. They are sure of what they want to say, but unsure of how they will lay it out visually. Manual beautifying of slides can take a considerable amount of time for people who are not designers. You have adjusted adjustments made to your margins, resized your icons, changed colours and thought everything should look totally right, but feel that the end product does not look quite right. Tools designed to automate the process of beautifying slides, therefore, are very attractive because they create a connection between your raw content and the polished storytelling with which you will ultimately create your presentation.

Why Design Directly Impacts Engagement

Flashy animations and over-the-top visuals shouldn’t be a part of your engagement strategy at all, they may actually distract from the engagement process more than aid it. To effectively beautify slides, you must understand when to simplify and when not to. White space creates great power. Short bullet points are generally easier to read than long paragraphs of text, so consider using short bullet points as much as possible. Use images that enhance or reinforce the text andr idea, rather than competing for estimated text space. Following these same guidelines will provide enough time for your audience to engage with the ideas in their own heads without requiring them to decode those ideas before continuing with the engagement activity.

Visually processed information is processed much faster than text. Using diagrams, icons and structured layouts to convert long explanations into beautiful slides will dramatically improve the audience’s understanding of your material, as the audience will be able to assimilate it quickly. This is critical to deliver effective presentations in both business and educational settings, where both of those situations require an audience member to quickly understand something within a limited period of time because of the respect you are showing them by making use of their limited attention span.

From Raw Drafts to Polished Slides in Minutes

Previously creating beauty slides meant working with PowerPoint or another similar application and spending many hours adjusting the various elements of design. Now with AI driven presentations the entire process is completely transformed. With the new presentation technologies that are available you can either upload or draft content and then allow the system to automatically beautify your slides in seconds. The new system is utilizing layout logic, design balance, and visual consistency in applying the final beautification to your slides. The shift to AI-driven presentation technologies is more than just about speeding up the process of beautyification but also provides greater access to everyone improving the ability of nonprofessionals to beautify slides.

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This is one area in which TeraBox excels at offering this service: its innovate slide beautification feature is specifically made for those customers who value clean visuals to help them connect with their audience but do not have experience creating visually appealing designs. A customer using this capability can spend more time creating a presentation without worrying about what will look good because beautification of their slide will be handled automatically by the system while they focus on developing their content.

How Beautify Slides Enhances Message Clarity

Every presentation strives to achieve clarity. If a presentation has messy slides, audiences will have difficulty comprehending even simple ideas. Beautifying slides means organizing them according to a specific structure (including well-defined titles, groupings of related content, and consistent highlighting) so that attendees can comprehend your message. Not only will your slides look more attractive, but they will also be easier for them to remember. There are several studies supporting the theory that organizing visual materials has a positive impact upon recollection of those materials, therefore, every tool for beautifying slides is built upon this same premise.

TeraBox takes slide beautification deeper than simple style. The TeraBox methodology looks at the density of the content on the slides, balances the text with visual content, and ensures the spacing between items on the slides appears natural. When using this type of methodology you will ensure that your key points will not be hidden in your slides. You will transform your data into insights each time you beautify your slides.

Reducing Cognitive Load Through Better Design

One key advantage of enhancing slides is decreased cognitive load. The level of mental effort an audience necessitates to understand the presented material constitutes cognitive load. Presenting like this will lead to an increase in unnecessary cognitive load and increased levels of confusion and fatigue through the use of poorly laid out slides or slides containing too many words or images (to say nothing of the potential for using too many different colours). Using beautification strategies (such as a limited colour palette, aligned elements, and consistent visuals) may help reduce these burdens.

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With TeraBox’s beautify slides function, automated rules are put into place that will format slides for better searching and organization of information. Rather than creating confusion for the audience, this feature allows for logical movement through headlines and supporting details. Consequently, the audience will remain focused longer, while at the same time making it easier to retain more information.

Saving Time Without Sacrificing Quality

One of the most prevalent reasons that people do not enhance the design of their slides is due to the amount of time it requires. Manually beautifying slides can seem like an endless job, which is why automation is so important. Utilizing automation tools that beautify slides in seconds allows you to recover many hours of your time without sacrificing quality. The quality of your work will even be better because AI uses best practices for every single occurrence, generating a consistent standard.

This time savings allows website editors, marketers, educators, and creators to be more productive than ever. You can create the same number of iterations as before but will have far more material to work with when testing versions, meaning every version looks good. It makes it easy for you to create high-quality beautiful slides frequently instead of just “important” presentations.

Consistency Across Different Use Cases

Trust is built on consistency. Consistent slide looks from meeting to meeting, report to report, course to course creates a more professional-looking brand. Beautifi’s slide tools will help create this consistent appearance automatically. It keeps the fonts, spacing and layout aligned every time you change any content within the slide.

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This supports TeraBox’s effort to make slides beautiful with intelligent design modifications rather than constrained designs. This provides you with enough flexibility without creating any disorder. A good balance between these two characteristics is important for teams that produce presentations on a very regular basis. If you beautify slides one time, the methodology will automatically flow through all future presentations.

Making Presentations More Accessible

Creating an attractive presentation is also important for accessibility reasons. By using designs such as fonts that are easy to read, using sufficient contrast between text and background, and organizing your information in a clear way helps all audiences (including those who have visual limitations or any type of cognitive limitations) to receive your message much more easily. Therefore, if you create beautiful slides with accessibility considerations, your message will be able to reach many more individuals.

By default, the automated beauty slide feature helps to enforce predefined standards and TeraBox ensures that there is always legible text while providing a layout free of unnecessary clutter. When you use the Beautify feature on your slides, you are incorporating inclusive design as part of your day-to-day work instead of an afterthought.

Adapting Slides for Different Audiences

Every audience has specific expectations. Therefore, when delivering a sales pitch, classroom lecture, or internal report you will use different tones in your presentation. The use of beautify slides provides ease of use in adapting content without needing to re-design each slide from the beginning. You can modify content, while still maintaining the visual appearance of the presentation.

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TeraBox has made it so much easier to regenerate or refine slides as needed. You can create beautiful slides for executive presentations using a clean & simple layout and then recreate beautiful slides for student presentations using more visual elements and explanation—all while never having to start over. This ability to adapt is very important in fast-moving environments.

Why Beautify Slides Is a Long-Term Skill

Improving your slide design is not just for one specific presentation but instead helps develop skills that are applicable in communication long-term. As AI continues to develop, understanding how to direct and improve automated design systems is increasingly valuable for you personally and your business. When you understand how to create slides that are clear, eye-catching, and effective, you will find a greater outcome for you regardless of which tool you are utilizing.

TeraBox helps with your growth by providing easy-to-use tools to beautify slides so people can visualize how their content changes, and learn design principles as they go. Eventually using beautify slides will become second nature, this will help improve all of your visual communication.

The Real Impact on Audience Perception

Audience members make quick judgments about a speaker’s credibility. If a presentation contains hastily prepared or poorly designed slides, they can diminish the impact of otherwise strong presentations. By creating well-designed slides, you demonstrate professionalism and attention to detail. Creating a beautiful slide does not require excessive design, it requires purposeful design.

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When presenters use TeraBox to beautify slides, the result feels polished without feeling artificial. That balance is crucial. Beautify slides so they support your voice, not replace it.

Looking Ahead: The Future of Slide Design

As presentations continue to take precedence over everything we do, from business and education to online communication, the need for quickly and easily beautifying slides will only increase. AI-powered tools are raising expectations in respect to both speed and quality, which means rather than asking if you should beautify your slides, now you are asking yourself how well you can accomplish that.

TeraBox points toward this future by integrating beautify slides directly into the content creation process. No steep learning curve, no design bottleneck—just clearer, more engaging presentations.

Ultimately, selecting to enhance the appearance of your slides is a means of showing respect toward both your audience and your message. Clear images give additional meaning to the material. A well-designed presentation increases credibility. Today’s software, such as TeraBox, makes it easy to improve the look of slide presentations. Using the right tools, you can consistently create compelling communications from even the most basic content.

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SP Group A/S 2025 Q4 – Results – Earnings Call Presentation (OTCMKTS:SPGGF) 2026-03-25

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Strauss Group Ltd. (SGLJF) Q4 2025 Earnings Call March 25, 2026 9:30 AM EDT

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Avshalom Shimi
Shai Babad – CEO & President
Tobi Fischbein – Chief Financial Officer

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differ materially from those projected, including as a result of changing industry and market trends, reduced demand for our products, the timely development of our new products and their adoption by the market, increased competition in the industry and price reduction as well as due to risks identified in the documents filed by the company with the Israeli Securities Authority.

Online with me today are Mr. Shai Babad, Strauss Group’s President and CEO; and Mr. Tobi Fischbein, Group CFO; and myself, Avshalom Shimi, Head of Investor Relations. We will begin with a review of the annual results by CEO, Shai Babad, and then move on to the financial highlights of the quarter and 2025 presented by CFO, Tobi Fischbein. We will then move to the Q&A session.

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Shai, the floor is yours.

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Thank you very much, Avshalom. Again, we apologize deeply for the delay. The computer fell in the last moment after everything was ready. [ Murphy ] is slow, and we had to upload everything on a new computer. But let’s start, and I’ll try to be brief and to the point.

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Next. Next. The highlights of 2025. We have a very strong double-digit growth in 2025 and also a very strong double-digit growth in the last quarter of Q4 of 2025. In the year of 2025, we also managed to regain back our margins and improve the profit — operational profit and the operational profitability, with margins reaching 9.6% without our kitchen activity, which is very, very close to the strategic guidelines that we gave. In net profit in the last quarter, we managed to improve the results by 100%, getting to ILS

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Plan for 250 homes ‘which threatens football club and marina’ is refused

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A Homes England sign for a proposed housing development on land off Kellet Road, Carnforth.

A Homes England sign for a proposed housing development on land off Kellet Road, Carnforth(Image: LDRS)

A plan for 250 homes in Carnforth has been refused by Lancaster councillors, after fears that it threatened a football club’s activity and wider community needs.

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There were also concerns the plan failed to consider reopening a nearby Lancaster Canal marina, and that residents’ cars from the new homes would add to local congestion.

Carnforth Rangers FC was among a number of objectors to the plan by government agency Homes England, for up to 250 houses at the Lundsfield Quarries site, off Kellet Road.

Now, Lancaster City Council’s planning committee (on Monday, March 23) has refused the application, against planning officers’ advice.

Homes England wanted outline planning permission for 250 homes and bought the land after developer Redrow Homes failed to deliver an earlier scheme some years ago, council planning papers said.

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The 29-acre site covers the former Lodge Quarry Works bordering the canal south of Carnforth town centre. The football club’s location, Quarry Park, is on the northern edge of the application site.

Neil Wakeman, representing Carnforth Rangers FC trustees, wrote an objection letter to the council, included in planning papers.

He said: “We have real concerns for the incompatibility of football activities with this proposed housing development. This would threaten the viability of improved football facilities in the area.

“A significant shortfall of playing pitches in the Carnforth area has already been identified in Lancaster City Council local plans. Rather than building housing around the existing football ground, we believe all proposals should be considered holistically – together with the community’s sport and footballing needs. Plans for the district should facilitate the expansion of football facilities.”

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Carnforth Town Council had also objected. It claimed there has been poor consultation with the community, had worries about traffic congestion and feared the football club would face complaints about disturbance from future residents living in the new homes.

Elsewhere, Lancaster Canal Trust had raised concerns, but not objections. It said the potential loss of canal boat moorings would not encourage a focus for leisure activity in Carnforth. It and the Canal and Rivers Trust also made suggestions to protect the canal infrastructure and its enhance its surrounds.

The Homes England plan included demolition of some existing buildings to build new homes, access and infrastructure. It also proposed a car and coach park for Carnforth Rangers.

Lancaster City Council planning officers had advised councillors to approve the plan with conditions and a legal agreement. Officers said news homes were needed and the canal could be protected.

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Their recommendations include having a football club car park with at least 58 spaces and two coach spaces, with long-term security of tenure for the club. Also a contribution by the developers for other sports amenities elsewhere.

Also recommended were affordable homes, new traffic signals on Kellet Road and the developer making a bus service contribution of £500,000. New public space at the housing estate and a management company to maintain open space, roads, landscaping and drainage were also recommended by officers.

But city councillors on the planning committee refused the application.

To find all the planning applications, traffic diversions, road layout changes, alcohol licence applications and more in your community, visit the Public Notices Portal.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Monday it was banning the import of all new foreign-made consumer routers, a move that comes as the latest crackdown on Chinese-made electronic gear over security concerns.

China is estimated to control at least 60% of the U.S. market for home routers – which are the boxes that connect computers, phones and smart devices to the internet.

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The FCC order does not impact the import or use of existing models, but will ban new ones.

The agency said a White House-convened review deemed imported routers pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure.”

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The FCC said that malicious actors had exploited security gaps in foreign-made routers “to attack households, disrupt networks, enable espionage, and facilitate intellectual property theft,” citing their role in major hacks like Volt and Salt Typhoon.

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Hackers can exploit consumers’ home internet routers that aren’t properly secured. (Getty Images)

The determination includes an exemption for routers the Pentagon deems do not pose unacceptable risks.

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Lawmakers have previously raised security concerns about Chinese-made routers and Michigan Rep. John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House select committee on China, praised the FCC order.

“Today’s tremendous decision by the FCC and the Trump administration protects our country against China’s relentless cyberattacks and makes it clear that these devices should be excluded from our critical infrastructure,” Moolenaar said. “Routers are key to keeping us all connected, and we cannot allow Chinese technology to be at the center of that.”

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The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately comment.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a ban on imported internet routers after finding security vulnerabilities. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Last month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued TP-Link Systems, a California-based router manufacturer spun off from a Chinese firm, for allegedly marketing its networking devices deceptively and allowing Beijing to access American consumers’ devices.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the AmericaFest 2024 conference sponsored by Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 21, 2024. (Cheney Orr/Reuters)

TP-Link Systems said it would “vigorously defend” its reputation, adding that the Chinese government had no form of ownership or control over the company, its products or user data.

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Reuters reported last month the Trump administration had put on hold a proposed ban on domestic sales of routers made by TP-Link.

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The FCC issued similar rules in December that ban the import of all new models of Chinese drones.

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TVS Holdings, the promoter entity of TVS Motor Company, announced an interim dividend of Rs 86 per equity share on Wednesday. This implies a whopping 1,720% dividend payout on the smallcap company’s 2.02 crore shares.

In an exchange filing, TVS Holdings said that its board of directors, during its meeting today, has declared the interim dividend of Rs 86 per share with a face value of Rs 5 each for the ongoing financial year 2026, with the total dividend payout standing at Rs 174 crore.

Record date for TVS Holdings dividend

The record date to determine the eligibility of the shareholders set to receive the dividend has been set on April 2. This means that only those shareholders who have the shares of the company on their demat accounts on April 2 will be eligible for the dividend. The dividend will be paid within 30 days from the declaration of the interim dividend, the company announced.

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This comes after the company paid an interim dividend of Rs 93 to its shareholders in March last year, and Rs 94 in April 2024.

Additionally, the company also announced that it has raised Rs 650 crore by issuing non-convertible debentures (NCDs) at an 8.10% coupon rate with a 39-month term.

TVS Holdings share price

The shares of the company sharply surged nearly 3% to trade at Rs 14,125 apiece on NSE on Wednesday. The stock has gained more than 57% in the past one year, and over 265% over the past three years.
The Chennai-headquartered company has undergone key transformations in recent years, including its rebranding from Sundaram-Clayton to TVS Holdings. The company acts as the holding arm of the larger TVS Group, which has been expanding its footprint across mobility solutions, electric vehicles, and global operations.Through its subsidiaries and associates, TVS Holdings has interests in two-wheeler manufacturing, electric vehicle initiatives and global operations. Earlier in January this year, TVS Holdings reported a 28% year-on-year rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 493 crore for the October-December quarter of the ongoing financial year 2026. The firm’s revenue from operations grew 34% YoY to Rs 15,276 crore during the same period.

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Supreme Court sides with Cox, tosses $1 billion copyright verdict in Sony fight

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The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday that internet providers are not liable for copyright infringement by their users, delivering an opinion in Cox v. Sony and tossing a $1 billion verdict.

“Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the opinion. “Accordingly, we reverse.”

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The ruling marks a significant win for broadband providers facing pressure from copyright owners to police subscriber activity.

Cox Communications now cannot be held liable for piracy by its internet service subscribers of songs owned by Sony Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and other labels, ending their billion-dollar-plus music copyright lawsuit.

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The 9-0 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision to order a new trial to determine how much the internet service provider owed the record labels for a form of liability called contributory copyright infringement. Cox had said a retrial could have produced a verdict against the Atlanta-based ISP of as much as $1.5 billion.

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“The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion,” the ruling concluded.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, agreed Cox should prevail in this case but rejected the majority’s broader reasoning. 

In her separate opinion, Sotomayor wrote that “the majority, without any meaningful explanation, unnecessarily limits secondary liability” and warned that the decision “also upends the statutory incentive structure that Congress created.” 

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All nine members of the Supreme Court agreed that an internet provider cannot be held liable for the copyright infringement of their subscribers. (Getty Images / Getty Images)

“The facts of this case do not establish the requisite intent needed to hold Cox liable for infringement that occurred on its network,” she concluded. 

“Because the majority needlessly curtails secondary liability in a manner inconsistent with both precedent and statute, I concur only in the judgment.”

More than 50 labels joined together to sue Cox in 2018. Internet service providers like Cox are generally not considered liable under U.S. law for infringement by their users if they take reasonable measures to address it. But the labels accused Cox, the largest unit of privately owned Cox Enterprises, of failing to respond to thousands of infringement notices, cut off internet access for repeat infringers or take other piracy-deterrence steps.

A jury in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2019 found Cox owed the labels $1 billion for user infringement of more than 10,000 copyrights. The jury found Cox liable both for contributory infringement and vicarious infringement, two forms of secondary copyright infringement liability.

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The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the damages award in 2024. The 4th Circuit ordered a retrial on the award’s size after affirming the jury’s finding of contributory infringement but reversing its finding of vicarious liability.

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People look at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., March 14, 2026.  (REUTERS/Will Dunham / Reuters Photos)

Contributory infringement involves holding parties liable for someone else’s infringement because they knew about it and contributed to it. Vicarious infringement involves holding parties liable for someone else’s infringement because they had the ability to control the infringement and benefited financially from it.

Cox argued that the position taken by the labels in the case would expand the concept of contributory infringement too broadly. Cox said this stance would threaten to cut off access for thousands of innocent internet users including “entire households, coffee shops, hospitals, universities” and others “merely because some unidentified person was previously alleged to have used the connection to infringe.”

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The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case in December. A lawyer for President Donald Trump‘s administration argued in support of Cox. Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and other internet-focused tech companies supported Cox in the case, too. Music, film and book industry trade groups backed the labels.

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Law firm hails Foot Anstey hails ‘Manchesterism’ as it brings key conference to the city

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Group focusing on key North West growth areas including retail, sports and infrastructure

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Melanie McGuirk, left, and Jan Levinson in the Manchester office of Foot Anstey(Image: Foot Anstey)

A law firm holding its national conference in Manchester for the first time says the city’s ‘Manchesterism’ effect, as promoted by Andy Burnham, has encouraged its investment in the region.

Foot Anstey is holding its Partner Conference in Manchester this week after announcing plans to grow its headcount in the North West.

Foot Anstey recently reported its strongest-ever financial results, with revenues for the 2024/25 financial year reaching £76.9m. The Bristol-based firm employs more than 700 people, with other offices in Belfast, Exeter, London, Plymouth and Southampton.

In the North West, the group aims to grow its offering in key growth areas including retail, sports, infrastructure and technology. It will also continue its to “break down barriers” in the legal profession,

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Foot Anstey plans to grow its headcount in the North West region and further develop its legal offering in line with key business growth sectors of retail, sports, infrastructure and technology.

The firm’s strategy also focuses on breaking down barriers to entry into the legal profession across the UK, including Manchester, through initiatives such as Achieve, its award-winning vacation scheme supporting Black and minority ethnic candidates.

The firm’s pledge to donate 1% of its net profits annually to responsible business programmes is already benefiting initiatives within Greater Manchester such as the Wood Street Mission.

Martin Hirst, managing partner at Foot Anstey, said: “The high calibre of our established team in Manchester as well as positive economic data gives us the confidence to make further investment in Manchester and the wider North West region. This is why we have selected Manchester as the location for our partner conference this year bringing people together at the heart of this exceptional business environment. I look forward to seeing the positive impact we will create in Manchester in the years ahead, not just in business terms but in social investment too.”

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Melanie McGuirk, partner at Foot Anstey in Manchester, said: “The ‘Manchesterism’ effect is certainly being noticed in other parts of the country and is a major pull factor for business. The strength of Manchester’s economy is an important part of our decision as a firm to commit to this city. It’s a city that is growing in confidence and capability, attracting high-growth companies and exceptional talent, and we’re committed to being part of that continued growth.”

Jan Levinson, partner at Foot Anstey in Manchester, said: “We are building a powerhouse law firm, backed by exceptional talent and a clear vision for growth. Over the coming year, we will continue to expand our capability to support the most complex commercial disputes and high-value advisory matters, working alongside the region’s most ambitious organisations and leaders”

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Plans for new housing estate near A555 Airport Relief Road in Stockport

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Breck Homes says scheme will be ‘100% affordable’

Bolshaw Road in Heald Green, Stockport.

Bolshaw Road in Heald Green, Stockport(Image: Google Maps)

A new housing estate could be built on the green belt in Stockport close to the Airport Relief Road.

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Plans have been submitted to the council to build 64 ‘affordable’ homes on the fields off Bolshaw Road in Heald Green.

It is close to the border with Cheshire with Handforth sitting on the other side of the A555.

Developer Breck Homes said in its planning application that the land is ‘well located for access to local shops, employment, community facilities and public services, many accessible from the site on foot.’

A report set out the vision: ‘The site will provide 100 per cent affordable housing, infrastructure needs will be met, and accessible public open space will be provided.

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‘The streets have been designed to be a safe, pleasant environment for residents. This is within the context of Heald Green being a sustainable location in which residents can live, work and play.’

The developer said people with a local connection but without the ‘financial means’ to live in the area would be given ‘priority’ for housing allocation.

If the scheme is approved, half the homes would be at social rent prices, with the other half for shared ownership.

The developer explained in its application that while the site is part of the green belt, it ‘fulfils the definition of ‘grey belt’ in accordance with national planning policy.’

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A ‘grey belt’ designation can mean land being released from its protected status or allocated for housing development.

This would be weighed up by Stockport council when reviewing the plans.

The planning application continued: ‘The combination of dwelling types and sizes, with apartments of one or two bedrooms and homes of two, three, and four bedrooms, will meet the needs of a wide range of users.’

Proposals could see new homes built on the land come with ‘spacious private gardens’ and communal areas for the apartments.

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Planning documents state that the area is serviced by ‘regular bus services stopping 100m from the site’ which will ‘enable travel to locations such as Stockport, Macclesfield and Manchester Airport all within 30 minutes.’

Reports claimed that Heald Green train station is a ’15-minute walk from the site along Cross Road’, but Google Maps suggested the trek could take closer to half an hour from the application area.

Stockport is facing a shortage of affordable housing like in other areas of Greater Manchester.

More than 9,000 people are registered on Homechoice, a platform used by social housing provider Stockport Homes for bidding on properties.

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The Lib Dem-led council has plans to build a total of 8,000 homes in Stockport town centre with a ‘brownfield first’ approach to development.

Stockport council has set a target date of May 25 for the plans to be decided.

To find all the planning applications, traffic diversions, road layout changes, alcohol licence applications and more in your community, visit the Public Notices Portal.

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Families offered support with Easter food costs

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'Concern' as school holiday food vouchers end

Low-income families are being offered help with the cost of food during the Easter holidays.

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