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Speller Metcalfe: Building Excellence Across Worcestershire and Herefordshire
Speller Metcalfe is a leading regional construction company with deep roots in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, and a proud heritage spanning 30 years. Established in 1995, the business has grown into an award-winning contractor delivering complex, high-quality...
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Speller Metcalfe: Building Excellence Across Worcestershire and Herefordshire
Speller Metcalfe is a leading regional construction company with deep roots in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, and a proud heritage spanning 30 years. Established in 1995, the business has grown into an award-winning contractor delivering complex, high-quality...
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Boogie Lights Express Steams into the Severn Valley Railway
There are just days to go until the brand new Boogie Lights Express steams into the Severn Valley Railway. Fortunately, the event is completely unaffected by the recent embankment collapse near Bridgnorth and trains will depart from Kidderminster as planned. Running...
Severn Valley Railway and Bewdley Festival launch children’s poetry competition
As it celebrates its 60th anniversary, the Severn Valley Railway is teaming up with Bewdley Festival’s Step into Stories event, to launch a brand-new children’s poetry competition, with family travel tickets on offer as prizes. The competition is open to children aged...
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World first technology demonstrated at DRPG’S BigTalk
Creative communications group DRPG staged its ‘Bigtalk’ event, which saw 150 of its clients from across Europe attend the headquarter studio complex in Worcestershire this week. Now in its sixth year, Bigtalk is the group’s flagship thought leadership event where...
Law firm’s sponsorship secures acclaimed pianist for Bromsgrove concert
Law firm’s sponsorship secures acclaimed pianist for Bromsgrove concert A donation from a Worcestershire law firm has secured a world-renowned pianist for an autumn music concert being held this month in Bromsgrove. mfg Solicitors, which has offices in the town, has...
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Success of Hereford Queen’s Award event paves the way in Worcestershire
In April, it was announced that three Herefordshire-based companies had been recognised within the prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2019, one of the highest accolades for UK businesses. The awards are designed to recognise and encourage outstanding...
The Engineering Digital Mash Up Worcestershire’s No. 1 event to get SMEs future-fit
Worcestershire and the West Midlands is building its digital capability fast: 5G, superfast broadband, Wi-Fi 6 trials and “digital factories”. Now there is help with training, as the West Midlands Combined Authority launches “Beat the Bots”, a £5 million fund to help...
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BCC: Simplifying planning rules would go a long way to boost rural coverage
Commenting on the government announcement on proposals to simplify planning rules to improve rural mobile coverage, Mike Spicer, Director of Policy at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: “We’ve been calling on the new government to prioritise the...
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BCC: Simplifying planning rules would go a long way to boost rural coverage
Commenting on the government announcement on proposals to simplify planning rules to improve rural mobile coverage, Mike Spicer, Director of Policy at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: “We’ve been calling on the new government to prioritise the...
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All About Magazines celebrates 10 years in business
Local publisher All About Magazines, with three community magazines in Malvern/Upton-upon-Severn, St John’s in Worcester and West of the Hills, is celebrating 10 years in business. Editor Sascha McDonald started work on the first magazine back in 2009 in her...
New project to catalyse innovation in Worcestershire agri-tech launches
A project supporting Worcestershire-based enterprises to diversify into new agri-tech markets got underway recently at Pershore College. GrowAgri Worcestershire, a £2m joint initiative between the college and the European Regional Development Fund, officially unveiled...
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EBC Group selected as SDC Awards finalists in two categories
EBC Group have been selected as finalists at the prestigious national SDC Tech Awards, in both the Cloud/MPS Project of the Year and Managed Service Provider of the Year categories and are hoping to continue their success from the previous two awards events. They were...
Thursfields corporate team set for record year as deals in first six months of financial year top £100 million plus
The corporate team at Thursfields has helped close deals totalling over £100 million in the first six months of its financial year – almost as much as it achieved in the whole of its last financial year. Gareth Burge, director and head of corporate, said: “The team...
Sustainable Car Hire in Worcester Arboretum
Enterprise Car Club have placed a vehicle in the Worcester Arboretum which will help free up parking and provide instant access to car rental via the Enterprise Car Club app. There have been problems with car parking in Worcester City Centre for some time, but the car...
Chair’s Report
It’s great to be able to start with news that affects all businesses: mitigating energy costs and hopefully helping many businesses avoid insolvency. Through a new Government Energy Bill Relief Scheme, the Government will provide a discount on wholesale gas and...
Local theatre director launches Crowdfunder campaign to help colleagues in Kherson, Ukraine
Local theatre director launches Crowdfunder campaign to help colleagues in Kherson, Ukraine. Rachael Savage, Artistic Director of Worcester-based Vamos Theatre has started a Crowdfunder campaign to raise money for food, clothes and medicine in Ukraine. As an actor in...
Introduction to Kev Thomas – Enterprise
My name is Kev Thomas from Enterprise. I represent the Business Rental department and work with businesses helping them to realise the business value in tackling ground transportation costs. Our ability to offer several types of products under one brand enables us to...
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