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A loan provider will host a lunch event with the aim of bringing businesses across the region together.

The debate around assisted dying resurfaced this week after Dame Esther Rantzen, 83, who has cancer, revealed she has joined Dignitas in case she needs to end her life.

130 jobs have been safeguarded

The alternative lender has provided finance to more than 1,400 businesses which is forecast to create 5,505 jobs and has safeguarded 1,451 more

BCRS will deliver loans between £25,001 and £150,000 via the government-backed scheme to help businesses faced with increasing financial pressures.

The electricity supplier for the North East says it could have been better at talking to customers.

Calls for inquiry after thousands left without power for a week in the north-east and Scotland

Support and it�*s felt it necessary to get the army in and to get people out on the streets because they can�*t be sure from northern powergrid when exactly all of those homes will have their power reconnected, so the soldiers will be going out, knocking on doors, providing reassurance and we saw them yesterday as county durham also providing food parcel, support and that kind of welfare that people without power might need. to give you an idea of how much longer this problem has to run, nor...

They have lifted the cap on the compensation they will give customers and they will make sure that those customers do get some compensation for everything they have been through. that suggestion, that is not going to settle the distress customers has been through but it shows some acknowledgement. earlier, i spoke to stephen deakin. he is in dissington in newcastle upon tyne. he lives with his wife and two children and hes been without power for eight days. you forget how much you use it. you ha...

Lichfield Live Open Search Scheme to offer funding to help small business in Lichfield and Burntwood overcome impact of the coronavirus crisis Share this: Small businesses in Lichfield and Burntwood facing difficulties accessing finance to overcome the effects of the coronavirus pandemic are being invited to apply for money from a loan fund. The three-year Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Business Loan Fund will provide between £10,000 and £50,000 to companies. Staffordshire County ...