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Next unveils its home store

RETAIL giant Next opens its latest store in the region today.

The Next Home store, at Queens Retail Park in Stafford, has created 30 jobs.

The 9,000 sq ft shop (836 sq metres) which is due to open its doors at 10am, will feature the retailer's range of furniture, home accessories and interior design products.

Customer ordering points will be available throughout,...

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Housing firm launches new support project

SOCIAL landlord Aspire is launching a "floating support" package for vulnerable residents. The Newcastle-based firm has won £150,000 funding from Government agency Supporting People to provide assistance to older people, homeless people and the young...

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Towers favourite with home crowds

ALTON Towers owner Merlin Entertainments said its attractions welcomed more than three million extra visitors last year despite the recession. The firm, which also owns Madame Tussauds and the London Eye, said total visitor numbers rose by 3.4 million to 38.5...

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Funding boost to spark expansion

A POTTERY firm is planning to expand after securing extra funding. Hudsons Fine Bone China, in Longton, was created last year by the former management of the manufacturer Hudson & Middleton, which fell into administration. It was provided with £75,000...

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Vision for town has new shops in store

VISION: Top, an artist's impression of the proposed Scarborough Development Group scheme in Congleton. Above, Princess Street. Below, Gordon Baxendale.

THIS is how Congleton could look if new plans are given the go-ahead. A planning application has been submitted by Scarborough Development Group (SDG), which bought the three-acre town centre site from...

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Public sector pay freeze won't cut debt, Brown told

Insulting: Public sector staff reacted angily to pay freeze.

Gordon Brown was accused of 'gesture politics' last night after announcing a pay freeze for around 40,000 top-earning public sector workers.Comment on this story


Nish criticises Standard Life bureaucracy

Bureaucratic: New boss David Nish says staff are frustrated

Standard Life's new boss has taken a swipe at his predecessor, saying the insurer is far too bureaucratic and that staff have become frustrated as a result.

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BA union to set strike dates as talks collapse

Solidarity: 'We now have no alternative but to carry out industrial action', unions told staff.

British Airways is back on the brink of strike chaos by 12,000 cabin crew after talks to broker a deal broke down last night.

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Tullett Prebon takeover security risk

Tullett Prebon takeover security risk

A Chinese takeover of inter-dealer broker Tullett Prebon could put sensitive economic data on European countries in the hands of a foreign power, investors were warned.

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Ten predictions for the Budget 2010

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Gordon Brown today announced that Chancellor Alistair Darling will present his pre-Election Budget on March 24. Accountant Grant Thornton's Head of Tax Francesca Langerberg gives her verdict on what will...

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