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Bidders have until the end of the day to submit offers to buy bookmaker the Tote.

Bidders have until the end of the day to submit offers if they want to buy bookmaker the Tote. And why women make up only 12% of directors of FTSE 100 companies.

Bidders have until the end of today to submit their final offers if they want to buy the state-run bookmaker the Tote. We speak to John Heaton, managing director of the Betting and Gaming Consultancy, and former CEO of the Tote.

At the last count women made up only 12% of directors of FTSE 100 companies. Former minister Lord Davies says the FTSE 100's boards should have a minimum of 25% female representation by 2015. So how to make it happen? Chief executive and founder of The Women's Business Forum Heather Jackson gives us an insight.

With the unemployment rate pushing two and a half million, many of you may be trying to learn new skills to make yourself as appealing as possible to employers, but are bosses more about your mind-set than your skill-set? James Reed, chairman of Reed Recruitment and co author of Put Your Mindset to Work thinks so.

The National Centre for Social Research says that two thirds of non-home owners in the 20-45 age group believe they have no prospect of buying a home either in the short or longer term. Renting is becoming more the norm. Miles Shipside, commercial director of the property website Rightmove joins us.

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