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The Valleys drainage firm expanding and creating new jobs
Deals
Arch Drainage's expansion is being backed with invoice financing from Lloyds Banks
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"Very welcome news” as Government announces £1.57bn support for Britain's museums, galleries and theatres
Economy
Independent cinemas, heritage sites and music venues are also eligible for the emergency grants and loans
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Entrepreneurship still alive and kicking in Wales
Economy
But they do need greater access to growth finance
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Poundstretcher chain agrees rent cuts with landlords
Retail & High Street
Last month the Leicestershire-based chain started talks with landlords and creditors in a bid to secure its future
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Ƶ’s biggest independent car retailer says it saved customers working for the NHS £140,000 during lockdown
Automotive
Motorpoint launched a discount scheme in late April as a thank you to the country’s health and care workers
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Unions calls for recovery plan as fears grow of mass unemployment in North East
Economy
TUC follows North East LEP and North East England Chamber of Commerce of warning of dangers facing the region's economy
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Opinion: What next for post-Covid manufacturing in its Midlands heartland?
Engineering
“For centuries the Midlands has been at the heart of manufacturing in the Ƶ.
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Parkdean Resorts creates 1,500 new jobs ahead of summer for staycations
Economy
The firm is also launching a multimillion pound marketing campaign as it reopens its 67 holiday parks
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Sports Direct says Government should allow Leicester stores to open amid "half-cocked" planning
Retail & High Street
"The continued bumbling and lurching from half-cocked plan to non-sensical policy is making things far worse"
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Hundreds of Plymouth businesses 'saved' by vital grant scheme
Coronavirus
Plymouth City Council says more than a thousand jobs were protected by the Discretionary Grant Fund
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Print firm offers restaurants free menus to help 'kick-start' economy
Coronavirus
Plymouth's Blackfriars Contracts makes astonishing offer to hospitality businesses anywhere in Ƶ
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Pubs are literally pouring beer down the drain ahead of reopening
South West
With old stale ale having to be disposed off before boozers can welcome the public again it means South West Water was flooded with requests
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Leicester Tigers facing £10 million Covid hit if fans aren’t allowed back by January 1 
Business of Sport
CEO Andrea Pinchen says players including Manu Tuilagi have left after failing to agree on salary cuts
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Chancellor urged to step in as Leicester bars, barbers and restaurants edge "close to complete failure”
Coronavirus
Chancellor warned: "non-essential retailers instructed to close are once again facing an existential crisis"
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Government allocates £20m fighting fund to Leicestershire
Boris Johnson
Government is backing so-called “shovel-ready” schemes - which can be delivered as quickly as possible
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Manchester aerospace firm ASG Group buys Wirral firm AMF Precision Engineering
European Union
It's the latest move in its bid to target new opportunities in the defence and medical sectors
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Planning consent for Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project now expired confirms Ƶ Government
Wales
The project is now dead with Swansea Council saying work started earlier this week is "illegal"
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South West firms on list of Ƶ's pre-lockdown financial successes
South West
Eight of the region's companies are in the top 100 nationally but sales figures were compiled before the coronavirus pandemic
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Brittany Ferries starts recovery plan after 250m euro lockdown loss
Coronavirus
Cross-Channel operator says permanent jobs are not at risk as it restarts passenger services from Plymouth and Portsmouth
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Ex-Cobham boss takes over at defence giant Babcock
Engineering
David Lockwood is named as replacement for Archie Bethel and joins firm as it recovers from coronavirus-related financial loss
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Job losses planned at Next head office
Economy
Retailer joins long list of big name businesses streamlining operations to deal with the consequences of the coronavirus
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Ƶ's second biggest brick maker raises £55m through share placing to help it through coronavirus downturn
Economy
Company warns it could take three years for brick and block sales to get back to 2019 levels
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'Let's all help to rebuild the Humber's economy' - Chamber chief's rallying call to the region
Chamber of Commerce
Buy local call embraces corner shops and resident multi-nationals
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Wales sees highest rise in business dissolutions in the Ƶ
Economic Development
Research from Economic Intelligence Wales also show the majority of firms have seen revenues hit by pandemic
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