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A leading metal pressings specialist has secured more than £500,000 of funding to help it develop new thin gauge laminates for use in an exciting electrification project. Brandauer, which employs 60 people at its factory in Birmingham, is proving out a manufacturing process for creating special stacks used in a new…

Community charity project, The Village, is extending its virtues in Solihull by building a multi-functional mobile village to deliver support and aid to vulnerable people across the district. After securing funding from local mental health charity, Living Well UK, the charities will work collaboratively to build the…

Birmingham Wine Weekend (BWW) is returning to the city this year brimming with events and unique experiences for wine-lovers. From dinner with a world-renowned Master Sommelier and a ‘beef and wine masterclass’, to the ultimate Sunday Lunch experience: BWW2022 will be quenching Birmingham’s thirst for live…

Licensing and leisure property specialists are urging eligible hospitality businesses to ensure they apply for Government grants of up to £6,000 to offset some of the impact that Omicron had on their operations before the deadline this month. Harris Lamb’s dedicated hospitality businesses rates team warned that…

Nationwide employer John Pye, a Nottingham-based auctioneers, has announced it will increase its entry level minimum wage to £10 per hour on 1 April, in a bid tackle the concerning rise of living costs and go above and beyond the National Minimum Wage. The National Minimum Wage is set to increase on the 1 April to…

An innovative, automated ‘match-making’ platform has been launched by food consultancy The Good Food Group in a bid to partner the UK’s leading retail buyers with up-and-coming brands. The digital platform is designed to help time-poor buyers and disruptive new brands find each other in a seamless product…

Somerset County Cricket Club are pleased to be able to announce Hub Box as an Official Restaurant partner and Official Sponsor. Keeping close to its coastal roots, Hub Box, the renowned and much-loved South West purveyor of award-winning burgers, barbeque and beer has come a long way from its beginnings on St. Ives…

Creative alumni of Derby Grammar School will be among exhibitors at the school’s craft fair – its first public event since the Covid-19 pandemic.  Traditional leather worker Oliver Foulds graduated from the school’s sixth form in 2008 and will be returning to his alma mater for the first time this weekend to…

More than five million households in the UK currently consist of a couple with dependent children, according to Statista. However, with 42% of marriages ending in divorce, according to the Office for National Statistics, this landscape is constantly changing and separating parents across the country are having to…

The trustees and sponsors of a Derby charity are putting their best feet forward in a bid to raise money to support children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The group of 11 businessmen and women will be tackling the Derby 10k on April 10th to raise funds for Enthusiasm, which is based in Cotton Lane. The charity,…