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Choosing the Right Survey Partner: 5 Measured Building Experts to Consider

When it comes to construction, renovation, or architectural planning, accuracy is everything. That’s why measured building surveys have become an essential component in the early stages of many UK-based projects.

Whether you're an architect, property developer, or homeowner embarking...

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The Only People who Like Change are Wet Babies!

Many times, in order to survive we have to start a change process. Change, for most people, is an unnerving experience. But as the old saying goes, change is inevitable. It’s one of the only constants in life. I have said before, it is easy to change things. It is not so easy to change people. And therein lies the rub. As author Bruce Barton observed, “When you are through changing, you are...

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Putting road safety at the heart of business

Businesses in Plymouth are being invited to attend a free working breakfast to understand the true cost to them of road safety.

The Better Business breakfast workshop on Tuesday 23 July 2013 at Jurys Inn, Exeter Street, Plymouth between 7.30am to 9.30am will highlight the issue of road safety to local businesses.

It is estimated that a third of all road traffic collisions...

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1000 Club for young people reaches work experience milestone

A club designed to help young people get valuable work experience has smashed its own targets.

The 1000 Club has now opened up the doors of opportunity to 1,028 young people. The club was set up specially to give young people a taste of work – either through work experience, graduate internships, apprenticeships and jobs – full or part-time.

And so far, 285 full-time jobs have...

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Plymouth firm celebrates opportunity to win public sector IT contracts

Plymouth-based technology firm Goss Interactive is toasting its success in earning the opportunity to win contracts across the public sector.

The company has secured a place on the Government’s G-Cloud supplier framework for IT services.

G-Cloud allows government departments and the wider public sector to buy the IT services they need when they need them, ready for use from...

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New service aims to slash £30bn owed to businesses in late payments

Online Direct Debit payments provider, GoCardless, today launched an online payment tool to enable greater numbers of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across the UK to collect variable one-off and recurring payments by Direct Debit.

Traditionally only larger, more established businesses such as utilities providers and mobile operators have been able to access the...

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You're Hired! In search of Plymouth's most employable 17-year-old

The final of Plymouth’s ‘You're Hired!’ will take place today and tomorrow in the Roland Levinsky Building at the University of Plymouth.

The concept of ‘You're Hired!’ is to find Plymouth’s most employable 17-year-old sixth-former. In order to get to these final stages, 11 city sixth forms each staged one of the heats and students competed in two of the challenges provided...

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BBC's ‘The Apprentice’ finalist Susan Ma brings her business to Plymouth

The 2011 finalist of The Apprentice , Susan Ma, will be talking to local residents about her business Tropic Skincare, which she has developed in partnership with Lord Sugar.

The skincare products her company sells are animal cruelty-free and vegan friendly and are rich in minerals, vitamins and antioxidants. It is designed to appeal to women of all ages.

The main concept of...

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Local enterprise partnership plans business consultation events

Helping regional enterprise partnership, the Heart of the South West to access a greater share of EU and Government funds is the aim of a series of events being held later this month, targeted at businesses and organisations throughout Devon, Plymouth, Somerset, and Torbay.

The sessions organised by the Heart of the South West (HotSW) Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) will provide an...

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Employers who Ignore Workplace Stress could be Liable

All businesses in the UK are legally required to ensure the health, safety and welfare of their employees. This includes a duty to control workplace stress: if an employee develops a stress-related illness as a result of a 'reasonably foreseeable incident', the employer may be held liable. ‘Foreseeability’ depends on what the employer knows (or reasonably ought to know) about the member of...

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