Month: May 2021

B&M sees annual profits double in "exceptional" year

Revenue jumped nearly 26 per cent in the year to March 31 and the firm has created 7,200 new jobs in the UK over the year.

Esh Construction’s £50m projects spearheading US growth

As the housing landscape across England rapidly changes, the Homes England Affordable Housing Programme 2021-26 has provided assurances of a bright future beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.

Seven post-pandemic marketing strategies for Yorkshire

Shops have closed, business models shifted, and we’ve had to quickly adapt to face the challenges presented.

These are the Anne Boleyn locations used across US from Bolton Castle to Castle Howard

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Centuries of academic study and popular culture have succeeded in reducing Anne Boleyn’s life and death to one grisly word in a school rhyme – ‘beheaded’, a simple way to remember that she was Henry VIII’s unfortunate wife number two.

DVLA staff begin four-day strike over Covid safety

Hundreds of staff at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) have walked out in a long-running dispute with management over Covid-related safety concerns.

Why firms must be aware of the law around flexi-working requests post-pandemic

Marie Walsh, an employment solicitor at Consilia Legal, said that there are certain grounds on which a company may decline a flexible working request.

Liberty Steel Group confirms it is to sell its Stocksbridge business placing future of 1,500 jobs in doubt

The company has started a formal sale process for its plant at Stocksbridge near Sheffield, as well as Coventry’s Liberty Pressing Solutions, and Liberty Aluminium Technologies, which has sites in Essex and Kidderminster.

How Leeds poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan became a top political voice and Breaking Binaries podcaster

When Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan had her breakthrough moment, she was barely aware it was happening.It was back in 2017, the same week as the London Bridge terror attacks, when the Bradford-born Cambridge graduate stood on stage in the Roundhouse Poetry Slam finals and in front of 600 people delivered her response to the event, which left eight people dead and dozens injured.

Prince Charles urges small family farms to find 'strength in numbers as he makes case for co-operatives

The sector is undergoing a “massive transition”, Charles said, noting that more than 100,000 family farms have been lost in the last 30 years.

Almscliffe-Dhesi coverts a former social club into a new Toolstation store.

The 4,500 sq ft development has been sold to a private investor for £525,000, reflecting a yield of 6.4 per cent.