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Faith forum Greater Dandenong Interfaith Network – with Greater Dandenong Libraries – is presenting its annual Talking Faith? Forum online. […]

(0) - Tembo is a new family finance platform, looking to close the vast generational wealth gap in the UK. - Its first product provides an innovative solution to help home buyers get on the housing ladder by increasing the size of deposits by leveraging the income and assets of willing family members. - Over 70% of its users to date were unable to get a mortgage until they used Tembo. - On average Tembo users could save £14,000 in interest charges over the initial term. - The business is b...

The first two go into operation this summer

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Haslingden-based Matrix247, a telecoms and mobile solutions provider, has acquired Task Office Systems. The deal says Matrix247 will help it to capitalise from a surge in demand for technology and systems triggered by lockdown. It will mean the company can add Microsoft Office products, IT support and digital photocopiers with document management to its existing range of services. The acquisition takes the Matrix247 team to 40 full-time employees, with the company looking to recruit more Micr...

Automated Speed Enforcement Cameras are (finally) coming to Mississauga by Lucas casaletto Posted Apr 5, 2021 1:30 pm EDT The City says it will monitor the success of phase one to help plan for future phases of the program. City of Mississauga Drivers in Mississauga have been among the few in the GTA to escape the flash and fines of automated speed enforcement cameras but that’s about to end. Signs have gone up in two areas to let people know the cameras will be installed in the coming month...

For some, the intense isolation felt during Covid hard lockdowns isn’t a passing phase. Keysborough Mens Shed is making a callout for homebound single men to join the camaraderie of its weekly get-togethers, says chair Geoff Wright. During lockdown its 40-strong members had sharply missed a social outlet. By necessity, their shed off Loxwood Avenue in Keysborough Community Park was closed for close to a year. “The time away from the shed due to it being closed has caused small problems,”...

A business providing a home from home for our feline friends is going from strength to strength.

Keysborough Mens Shed has closed until further notice as a Covid precaution. Chairman Geoff Wright said the move was in […]

It comes as an expert warned national coronavirus restrictions are needed to prevent a “catastrophe”. Professor Andrew Hayward, of the Government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, said tighter measures are required to tackle the new variant of the virus. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think we are entering a very dangerous new phase of the pandemic and we’re going to need decisive, early, national action to prevent a catastrophe in January...