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M60 Reopened Ahead of Schedule

Weekend work to install a new bridge on the M60 this weekend has been completed 8 hours ahead of schedule, lessening disruption to drivers. The M60 was due to be closed for 24 hours, in both directions between junctions five and eight, from 22:00 GMT on Saturday but instead it was able to open on … [Read more...]

Veterinary Group Open New Centre in Cheadle

The Woodcroft Veterinary Group has opened it's latest centre in Cheadle, bringing the total number of clinics to seven in the south Manchester Area. The new £1.3m branch has state-of-the-art facilities including a digital x-ray machine, hydrotherapy pool, two operating theatres and an … [Read more...]

EHL Ingredients serves up record sales

EHL INGREDIENTS, set up 18 years ago and whose Head Office is at Broadstone Mill in Stockport, has served up record results with an impressive year-on-year increase of 20% as sales of its seeds, dried fruits, spices and pulses imported from around the world exceed £5m for the first … [Read more...]

November business events

Business events for November. Stockport Breakfast Club Date:   Thursday 8 November 2012 Time:   7.15am - 9.00am Place: Alma Lodge Hotel, Stockport SK2 6EL Stockport Breakfast Club's November speaker is Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce's Stockport President … [Read more...]

North West Fund cut by £15m

The North West Fund for Development Capital, launched in 2010 using £185m of European cash and designed to provide financial assistance to help established businesses in the north west grow, has failed to make the investments that it had anticipated resulting in its funds being cut from … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner candidates

Elections will be held in November to choose police and crime commissioners who will replace police authorities currently in charge of 41 forces in England and Wales. PCCs, as they will be known, will be responsible for setting priorities for their police force, overseeing its budget and … [Read more...]

Stockport Business Expo

Stockport Business Expo: Organisers Plan Biggest Ever Business to Business Event in Stockport The organisers of the upcoming Stockport Business Expo are on target to deliver the biggest Business to Business event in Stockport for 2012. Taking place at Edgeley Park Football Stadium on the 22nd … [Read more...]

Ryanair to expand routes from Manchester Airport

Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive of budget airline Ryanair, has today announced it is to expand its operation, creating up to one thousand jobs at airports in Liverpool, Manchester and the East Midlands. Ryanair will be adding nine new services and adding two aircraft from summer 2013,  at … [Read more...]

Plans for a new type of employment contract

Chancellor George Osborne has announced a new type of employment contract to be known as an employee-owner.  Under the new contract employees will be able exchange some of their UK employment rights for shares in the business they work for. Gains on the disposal of the shares will be … [Read more...]

Kids Allowed expands into Stockport

Kids Allowed, the independent Manchester-based nursery chain is to create 50 jobs with the opening of its fifth site, this time in Stockport. The new nursery is being built on the former site of the Acton Court Hotel just a mile south of Stockport town centre and will have places for … [Read more...]