Category: News

The economy will pick up later this year and the recovery is now “in sight”, the Governor of the Bank of England has declared.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has officially launched a new drive to showcase the creative talents of apprentices and highlight their contribution to some of the country’s most well-respected exports, goods and services.

A £10m government fund set up a year ago to help bring empty shops back into use has barely been touched.

The Start-Up loan scheme has exceeded expectations as 2,000 aspirational young entrepreneurs have now received support to help get their business venture off the ground, in a boost to growth and the UK’s efforts to get ahead in the global race.

It is a common held belief that men can’t multi-task and women can, and I for one have always considered myself to be a great multi-tasker. However, new research reveals this may not be the case.

The government is backing Britain’s retailers in their bid to expand into fast-growing and lucrative overseas markets.

Two UK architecture firms have won prestigious contracts to deliver venue designs for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Hotbeds of industry are springing up across the UK, as British businesses fight back against the constraints of the economic environment. Analysis of the first 3,000 businesses who have worked with GrowthAccelerator, a national business advice service aimed at facilitating growth, finds Birmingham has seen more high growth businesses contract to the service than anywhere else in the UK.

Cloud computing pioneer, and investment banker, Piers Linney has been named as the new member of the Dragons’ Den, replacing Theo Paphitis.

5 teams of students from across the country have beaten 3,000 young people from 84 secondary schools nationwide, to reach the Grand Finals of a national enterprise competition run by HRH The Prince of Wales’ mentoring charitable initiative

BoostCapital.co.uk has launched a £10 million fund to support the growth ambitions of female entrepreneurs, in time for International Women’s Day.

J2 Global, a leading provider of cloud business services for UK business, today announced its latest research findings revealing the biggest issues currently impacting on small and medium enterprises.

The UK economy will grow less than previously forecast, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

Up to 17.5 million RBS banking group customers were left without their money last night as the bank’s systems crashed.

Winner of the 2011 series of The Apprentice Stella English described the £100,000-a-year job she was given by Lord Sugar was that of an ‘overpaid lackey’, an employment tribunal was told.