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Mr Machin said he "didn't quite see the double whammy coming up", referring to both the NI rise for employers and the reduction of the threshold for it applying.

In the wee hours of Thursday morning, Angelenos will get their first peek at a double whammy astrological delight — a Hunter’s moon that also happens to be a supermoon.

Small businesses are more dependent on bank financing, and in the last two years have faced a double whammy of high inflation and high borrowing costs.

The effects of Somalia’s climate change “double whammy” are all too evident in the hunger clinic the Red Cross runs in a hospital in the port city of Kismayo on the south coast.

“The old season potatoes are not there, usually the old season would be there until the new season comes in, but they're not so it's a double whammy really,” Ryan told the Irish Examiner.