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Job prospects in the North West are among the best in the country according to Manpower, the world’s workforce experts. With an employment outlook of +11%, the North West is...
Date Published 08/12/2015
Shops across the borough celebrated Small Business Saturday this weekend, with events taking place to champion local, independent businesses.
Date Published 07/12/2015
Councillors Dearnley, Emsley, Hartley and Stott braved the weather to judge Littleborough's Small Business Saturday window dressing competition.
Liz McInnes MP was judging Middleton Small Business Saturday window dressing competition on Saturday with Councillor June West and Adam Torevell, Middleton Town Centre Management...
North West manufacturers are enduring a difficult end to the year in the face of gathering gloom from the global economy, according to the latest Manufacturing Outlook survey from...
Kelly Larkin (31), of Westwood Crescent, Eccles, has been ordered to pay over £700 after rubbish belonging to her advertising business was found dumped at a Heywood beauty spot.
Date Published 05/12/2015
Adult club owners and adult entertainers in the North West who don’t pay their taxes are being targeted by a new UK-wide taskforce launched today by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has awarded a new Life Science Enterprise Zone to the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership.
Date Published 04/12/2015
Ana Maria Sagra-Smith has been appointed to the board of directors of Heywood-based GJD Manufacturing with effect from Monday 4 January 2016.
With the festive period just around the corner, the CLA in the North is urging shoppers to support local rural businesses this Christmas. The call comes ahead of Small Business...
Date Published 01/12/2015
Farmers and landowners are being warned to be alert for suspicious phone calls, texts and emails from fraudsters as the Rural Payments Agency begins the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)...
Gary Leigh and Darren Beswick opened their new fishing tackle shop, Absolute Angling Centre, at 79 Long Street, Middleton, on Saturday (29 November).
Date Published 30/11/2015
Francesca Barker, who was given an 18 month suspended sentence for fraud, turned her life around through making bread and has now opened her own bakery in Littleborough. In...
TBA apprentices visited St Anne’s Academy in Middleton where they discussed their roles and experiences with the pupils whilst demonstrating TBA’s products including a 3D printer...
Date Published 28/11/2015
Commenting on today’s Autumn Statement and Comprehensive Spending Review, Christian Spence, Head of Research & Policy at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, said: “The...
Date Published 25/11/2015
Commenting on today’s statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Steve Warren, North West Region Director at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said: “The Chancellor’s...
Small Businesses on hard pressed high streets will face an eye watering 20% rise in the business rates that they pay next year. Business rates for small shops, pubs, cafes and...
EON Reality, which specialises in virtual reality technology, has launched a new apprentice scheme to support the booming industry. EON Reality’s European HQ is based at...
The Chancellor George Osborne used his Spending Review and Autumn Statement today to set out how he will deliver "economic security, national security and opportunity for...
The Chancellor has increased stamp duty land tax (SDLT) on buy to let property purchases. Richard Lambert, CEO at the National Landlords Association, said: “The Chancellor’s...
Quentin Willson of FairFuelUK said: "Our intense lobbying, campaigning and empirical economic evidence that cutting duty is good for the whole economy has resonated with the...
Treat Yourself Boutique, in Milnrow, has been named Fashion Retailer of the Year (North West) at the Northern Independent Retailer Awards.
Date Published 23/11/2015
Heywood-based Logic Wealth Planning have been short-listed for a major award, the Adviser Firm of the Year (North West) in the Professional Adviser Awards. More than 200 firms...
Estate agents Ryder & Dutton has scooped two prestigious regional and national awards for the second year running. The firm, which has an office in Rochdale town centre, beat...
Date Published 18/11/2015
More than half the UK’s large restaurant chains are using seafood from overfished areas of the sea or fail to be transparent about the origins of their fish and shellfish, an...
Rochdale based lingerie shop Chantilly has been awarded the Stars Underline Best Shop Award for Excellence and Outstanding Achievement.
Date Published 17/11/2015
Company Shop, the UK’s largest redistributor of surplus food, has opened a new store in Middleton today (Monday 16 November).
Date Published 16/11/2015
The owners of Rochdale’s newest family restaurant are hoping their business has the recipe for success as local MP Simon Danczuk presided over the grand opening. Eastern...
Peacock Room Chef Jonathan Whittaker was declared the winner of the Deckers Hospitality Group’s chef competition last week. Jonathan, 21, became the youngest winner of the...
Britain risks entering the industrial slow-lane if support for innovation and hi-tech research is slashed in the forthcoming Spending Review, manufacturers have warned.
