The Forum of Private Business is urging the Government to halt the decline of small shops in the UK, following a report warning that the majority of independent convenience stores, newsagents, off licences and other specialist retailers could disappear by 2015.
Senior executives in the South West considering raising finance through the Alternative Investment Market have the opportunity to get practical interactive advice from the experts in Bristol on June 13.
Absence from work cost the UK economy £13.2bn last year as the average employee took almost seven (6.7) days off sick, while the gulf between absence rates in the public sector and the private sector grew to a record level, new research revealed today.
Newsquest Wiltshire, the parent company of the Swindon Advertiser, has announced that 13 jobs in the company's advertising design department will be made redundant.
House price falls have increased even further but tight supply is limiting the extent of the decline, reports Chartered Surveyors in the South West in the RICS UK housing market survey published today.
Hefty fines could be in store for owners of second properties who believe they do not owe income tax because rent revenue is swallowed up by mortgage payments.
Continuing failure to break down the barriers to effective rehabilitation of employees is costing Britain's manufacturers up to £610m a year according to a major report on sickness absence published today by EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, in partnership with Unum, the UK's leading disability insurer.
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