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Is it a bad dream ?

16 April 2009 17:10

I thought that I had lost a few days somewhere when I read this mornings financial pages. Surely it must still be April 1st.

Rewarded for failure

04 March 2009 11:29

Todays news is as is usual these days, depressing. Unless you are "a senior banker".

Fred Goodwin, destroyer of RBS, had his pension virtually doubled in a brokered payoff authorised by City Minister Lord Myners.

Are we wasting our waste ?

22 January 2009 15:34


Just when we have all been educated into recycling our waste products the recession has caused a severe drop in demand, and price, for waste products. In particular huge "haystacks" of waste paper are being stored, at considerable expense, for an indete

30% off new Jaguars & Range Rovers - you decide

The Jaguar/Land Rover situation is more complex than at first meets the eye. If this Indian owned company goes under not just their employees will suffer. The jobs of tens of thousands of workers employed by small engineering companies supplying Jaguar wil

Money for nothing

22 December 2008 22:05

Construction and the crunch

27 November 2008 19:44

I think that we all agree that unless the construction and Housebuilding programs are given a very quick kick start the recession will really take hold. Over the last few days I have visited Kim and Marion at Redes, civil engineers involved in infrastructu

First  visit to Eagles Meadow

18 November 2008 17:12

I thought that it would be interesting to visit this new shopping complex on a normal weekday now that the Opening Ceremonies are over.

A guide to help you through the current economic crisis

On Wednesday I attended a Network Meeting, organised by Medwyn Edwards of Hadlow Edwards Financial Advisors and Robert Ellis, Senior Partner of Ellis and Co Accountants and a couple of other promininent local businesses.Medwin and Robert have produced pamp

Snow Business

31 October 2008 16:59


Well what a week that was! Amongst my Monday calls was an overdue visit to Karen at Bundle of Joy Nursery Boutique. Our chat was repeatedly interrupted by customers calling to decide on the buggy, car seat or cot that they would need. Many of them in a

Words of Marketing Wisdom

26 October 2008 17:32


100 business people enjoyed Barclays marketing/networking seminar at the Ramada last Friday. Guru Robert Craven was the guest speaker and he provided a lot of food for thought. With so many different types of business attending it is impossible to gener