OPPORTUNITY Peterborough and Rutland County Council have secured up to £1.32m in funding to support rural businesses and communities. The funding, which has been awarded through the LEADER programme, will be allocated to local projects that…
BGL Group has supported the City of Peterborough Swimming Club (COPS) with a donation of £1200 which will be used to pay for coaching for the club’s Special Olympics Team.
TWO young Peterborough-based entrepreneurs have created a business that sends customers a selection of American sweets by post. Taffy Mail was launched by Jonathan Crouch and Benjamin Jones with the help of Ignite Peterborough (a…
BHF urges employers to help workers quit for good this No Smoking Day PETERBOROUGH’S accommodation and food service workers are more likely to smoke than workers in any other industry in the city, according to…
What’s the worst thing you’ve done at work? Apart from destroying the toilets, that is From completely destroying a workplace toilet to acts of petty revenge and the unfortunate outcome of a misguided good turn,…
Disgruntled workers get their own back – but is it legal? Fed-up workers (and ex-workers) up and down the country have been committing acts of revenge on their colleagues and customers, and they’ve been confessing…
Sacked workers and angry bosses reveal the weirdest – and most trivial excuses for losing a job IT TURNS OUT it’s easier than you think to lose your job, if tales from British workers and managers…
A GROUP of Peterborough-based companies is launching a new professional initiative which aims to create new business for its members. Called 1stop4business, it is not a conventional networking group but a co-operative marketing campaign by…
DESPITE a further rise in skill shortages private construction workloads continue to increase strongly. Construction workloads rose in the final quarter of 2014, with the East seeing strongest growth in the private industrial and infrastructure…
DIGITAL communications company EE has opened a new store in Peterborough. Located on Serpentine Green, it increases EE’s retail presence in the area to three stores, and creates seven new jobs for the area.