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Just days after Scottish firms Morton Fraser and MacRoberts announced their intention to merge, Irwin Mitchell also unveiled plans to combine with Scottish

THOUSANDS of new jobs will see Swindon bounce back from the coronavirus crisis and help lead the way for the rest of the UK. A new report suggests the town will have the fourth-fastest employment growth in the country this year - quicker than Oxford, Edinburgh and Doncaster. Only Cambridge and the Welsh cities of Cardiff and Swansea are expected to recover slightly better. The Powerhouse report predicts 2,400 new jobs created in Swindon by the last quarter of 2021 and its overall econom...

By Andrew Ffrench @OxMailAndyF Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425 An artists impression of Oxford Universitys life and mind sciences building Picture: Oxford University A new economic report said Oxford was expected to lead the nation’s post-Covid-19 recovery in 2021 with some of the fastest employment growth in the UK. The latest UK Pow...

THE rise in staycations over the summer meant Brighton was able to withstand a severe blow to its economy, compared with other places. According to a new report by Irwin Mitchell and the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr), Brighton and Hove saw the third smallest annual contraction in economic output of the 46 UK Powerhouse cities in the third quarter of this year. The city saw a 4.7 per cent decline in the employment rate over the same period and the value of goods and serv...