Business

Leading Devon legal firm Stephens Scown LLP has recently secured a top funding specialist to boost its renewables team across the region.

Mike Rowe, appointed as consultant with Stephens Scown, brings with him a wealth of experience, including 30 years of blue chip company involvement within the agri-business sector. Much of this experience came through senior management roles within both Barclays Bank and Clydesdale Bank within the South West.

For the last four years, Mike has been running Moorhayes Consultants , a consultancy specialising in the strategic development and...

The UK’s economic recovery appears to have strengthened during the third quarter of 2013, based on a wide range of indicators, according to a review by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Estimates of output in the services and construction industries both show an acceleration between the second and third quarters, while retail sales volumes grew at the fastest quarterly rate since the start of 2008. The labour market continued its recent improvement, with employment and hours rising and unemployment falling. Following a period of relatively flat output growth during 2011 and...

A new Head of Residential Estate Agency has joined Kivells, one of the longest established estate agency practices in the south west. Marc Cottrell has been an estate agent in the south west and beyond for many years. Having sold his own North Devon agency, he relocated to Cornwall and worked for specialist country homes departments in Truro based estate agencies. Subsequently he was offered a directorship of a national estate agency focussed on the higher end of the market. This saw him take on the operational activities for the south and south west of the UK covering an area from Surrey...

Figures released on Friday (25 October) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show ecomonic growth of 0.8% in the third quarter of the year.

The gross domestic product (GDP), which is the main indicator of economic growth, saw an increase of 0.8% between July and September compared to the previous quarter - the best quarterly performance since 2010.

The ONS reports that output increased in all four main industrial groupings within the economy in the third quarter of 2013 compared with quarter two. Output increased by 1.4% in agriculture, 0.5% in production, 2.5% in...