Business

The privatisation of Royal Mail last week should present opportunities for private investors, as well as employees and institutions. The chance to buy shares at a discount, the scope for rapid growth following flotation and the injection of private capital and incentives, all contribute to potentially profitable outcomes and the sell-off of such a massive and socially critical institution – must not be held back from the general public – as suggested by some commentators.

Options for raising funds in the pipeline are the sale of its stake in; Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking...

Despite poor weather, Met Office solar PV has generated more than estimated in first year.

A year after a 250 kW solar PV array was installed at the Met Office HQ Exeter, and – despite some terrible weather over the past 12 months – the system has still out-performed initial estimations.

The sun may be in full view now (with the Met Office predicting below average rainfall and above average temperatures throughout July) but official statistics show that 2012 was one of the wettest years on record for the UK and June 2012 was the least sunny in records dating back to 1910....

Everys Solicitors’ office in Seaton is celebrating its first birthday in its modern, accessible offices.

After spending 28 years at the former Eyre Court Road location, Everys moved to the new premises in Harbour Road a year ago. It is one of the firm’s nine offices in Devon and Somerset.

Richard Stokes, resident partner of the Seaton office for 18 years, said: “The old offices served us well but they were on a hill and our clients needed to go up steps to visit us. The new location has proved much more suitable for a modern practice like ours and it is more easily...

No matter where you are based throughout the country there is a wealth of talent just waiting to be tapped into and it has never been as readily accessible as it is now!

Just in the last couple of weeks we have attended exhibitions, business gatherings and breakfast meetings highlighting the resources available to businesses, many of which are free to the employer and could serve as a valuable extra pair of hands to growing businesses watching their cash flow that would benefit enormously from some extra assistance at this time.

In particular, we are talking about the...