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Worcestershire Businesses Come Together for Festive Carols and Community Spirit
Local businesses, community leaders and partners will once again come together to celebrate the festive season at the 2025 Worcestershire Business & Community Carols and Networking Evening on Tuesday 9th December, hosted at All Saints Church, Deansway, Worcester...
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Worcestershire Businesses Come Together for Festive Carols and Community Spirit
Local businesses, community leaders and partners will once again come together to celebrate the festive season at the 2025 Worcestershire Business & Community Carols and Networking Evening on Tuesday 9th December, hosted at All Saints Church, Deansway, Worcester...
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Severn Valley Railway Celebrates ‘heartening’ Response to its Resilience Fund Appeal
The Severn Valley Railway says it’s delighted with the support it has received for the SVR Resilience Fund, launched earlier this year in May. So far, it’s received donations totaling £73,000, as it seeks widespread support to meet its ongoing costs. ‘The response...
Two more Autumn Steam Gala Guests for the Severn Valley Railway
The Severn Valley Railway has announced the addition of two more guest locomotives for its Autumn Steam Gala on Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 September. Black Five 44932 and Saddle Tank 51456 will join an exciting line-up of guest and home fleet engines for four days of...
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Law firm bolsters commercial property team with senior appointments
Leading Worcestershire law firm mfg Solicitors has strengthened its commercial property team with the double appointment of a new partner and an associate. Clare Regan has joined the firm as a partner and divisional head of its widely respected commercial property...
Alert issued as water abstraction licence deadline looms
A leading agricultural lawyer has warned those looking to continue to legally abstract water from privately-owned land may have only a matter of months to apply for a licence. The Environment Agency announced last year that changes were being made to Water Resources...
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What have we learnt that will shape the future of conveyancing?
Osprey Approach and InfoTrack’s Marketing Managers, Amy Bruce, and Bronwyn Townsend, discuss the process and behavioural changes that were forced upon conveyancing firms during the last 18 months and share their views on if – and how – they should be embedded...
Retraining essential as 1 in 5 firms consider redundancies post-furlough
The BCC has called for government to extend skills training as new research showed nearly 1 in 5 companies are considering staff redundancies as the next phase of furlough tapering begins. With older workers much more likely to still be on furlough, there is...
Increased furlough contribution to test business resilience
This week employers who are claiming furlough pay for their workers now will have to pay 20% towards the subsidised wages as the Job Retention Scheme continues to gradually wind down. Figures published in July show the fewest number of people on furlough since the...
£7 million fund launched to support more flexible apprenticeship opportunities
Sectors including the creative, agriculture and construction industries can now bid for a share of a £7 million fund to support the creation of new flexible apprenticeships. Apprenticeships are at least 12 months long, so some sectors with flexible employment patterns...
Two million rural homes and businesses to benefit in £5 billion broadband upgrade
Millions of people in rural England will get access to faster broadband speeds as part of a £5 billion plan to level up internet access across the UK. The government’s Project Gigabit fund aims to upgrade digital infrastructure in hard-to-reach areas. New details...
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity’s Walk4Life Returns
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is delighted to announce its popular annual Walk4Life event in Rock, near Kidderminster, is back and is inviting supporters in and around Worcestershire to join in on Sunday 22nd August 2021. Participants of all ages can ‘pound the...
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