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Local businesses to speed-date students

Local business people will be speed-dating students this week as part of a competition to improve the entrepreneurial skills of students at the University of Bath (5.30-7.30pm, Thursday 14 December, Innovation Centre in Carpenter House, Broad Quay).

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