Troubled Barratt merges East Midlands offices as 1,000 jobs go
03/07/2008 14:51:25: Troubled Leicestershire housebuilder Barratt Developments today said it was merging its Barratt and David Wilson offices, costing 60 jobs. more »

Legal 'heavyweight' Jacobs joins Flint Bishop - Nottingham Evening Post
03/07/2008 09:00:00: 'Heavyweight' lawyer Tom Jacobs has joined Nottingham firm Flint Bishop. more »

Creative Business Awards set for launch in Nottingham - Nottingham Evening Post
03/07/2008 09:00:00: The city's most creative businesses are being urged to stand up and be counted in this year's Nottingham Creative Business Awards. more »

UKTI urges Notts firms to follow in Benoy's award-winning footsteps - Nottingham Evening Post
03/07/2008 09:00:00: Businesses are being urged to enter an awards scheme for the East Midlands best exporters. more »

Accountants tell firms: get on yer bike (and save tax) - Nottingham Evening Post
03/07/2008 09:00:00: Notts accountants say bicycles could be the smart way out of the fuel price bind. more »

Oz secondment for UHY Hacker Young's Gray - Nottingham Evening Post
03/07/2008 09:00:00: An auditor at a Nottingham-based firm of chartered accountants is swapping his working life in the city for a three-month secondment to Melbourne in Australia. more »

Nottingham shows off at UK Science Parks Conference - Nottingham Evening Post
03/07/2008 09:00:00: Nottingham has been showing off its potential as a Science City to the sector's property professionals. more »

Parking levy: businesses to pass on cost 'or leave' - Nottingham Evening Post
03/07/2008 09:00:00: Nottingham businesses are looking at passing on the Workplace Parking Levy to employees while others are considering leaving the city.  more »

Pub's ultimatum to sort hygiene - Derby Evening Telegraph
03/07/2008 08:00:00: Food inspectors have asked a village pub to clean up its kitchens.The Blacksmiths Arms, in Birch Cross, Marchington, was visited by an environmental health officer from East Staffordshire Borough Council who highlighted 10 breaches of food hygiene regulations and handed the eaterie two stars out of a maximum five under the authority's Rate My Place scheme. more »

Former Severn Trent MD Duckworth: I've been made a scapegoat - Nottingham Evening Post
02/07/2008 12:00:00: Severn Trent Water has been fined £2m for lying about the rate of leakages, with bosses saying they deeply regretted the mistakes of previous management. Brian Duckworth, the firm's former managing director, puts his side of the story more »