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Devon site manager wins prestigious national award

A Devon site manager is celebrating after receiving a prestigious award for his work at a local housing development.

Chris Spencer, a Site Manager from Devon, received the National House Building Council (NHBC) Pride in the Job Quality Award for excellence in on-site management at David Wilson’s Hampton Mill in Okehampton.

For more than 40 years, the NHBC’s Pride in the Job scheme has been dedicated to recognising the industry’s very best performers and is a prestigious accolade that site managers aspire to achieve.

To receive the award, site managers must score...

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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme Portal opens

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme portal opened on Monday 20 April to allow employers to start to submit their claims for furlough wage costs. Guidance has also been issued to provide employers with assistance in calculating 80% of their employee’s wages, including various scenarios as examples.

Whilst differences remain between the CJRS guidance and the Treasury Direction, the declaration that employers are being asked to confirm when submitting their claim is that their claim is in accordance with HMRC guidance, not the Direction. Employers are also asked to confirm that all...

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Top forensic accountant wins national award for a second year running

Milsted Langdon’s Forensic Partner, Roger Isaacs, is celebrating having once again been named the UK’s leading Forensic Accountancy professional at the Lawyer Monthly Expert Witness Awards.

Roger was honoured in the same category in 2019 and has consistently impressed judges at the prestigious legal awards with the depth and detail of his work within the industry.

Highly regarded by those with whom he works, Roger regularly gives expert evidence to courts in London, the South West of England and the Midlands, as well as acting in international cases. More recently during...

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Exeter food wholesaler changes business model overnight with six-figure HSBC UK CBILS loan

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Posted: Wed, 04/29/2020 - 9:24pm

An Exeter food wholesaler, which usually services the South West food service industry, has secured a six-figure finance facility from HSBC UK to extend its service to members of the public amidst the coronavirus outbreak.

Family-owned J&R Food Service, which supplies frozen, chilled and ambient food predominantly to pubs, cafes and restaurants across the South West, is using the funding to facilitate its new home delivery service, set up to provide essential food deliveries during lockdown.

Since lockdown began in March, the business has seen more than 9,000...

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WBD shortlisted for Planning Law Firm of the Year following Supreme Court win in village green case

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 04/29/2020 - 9:20pm

Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has been nominated for Planning Law Firm of the Year at the 2020 Planning Awards. The awards recognise excellence in professional planning work including outstanding work by councils, consultants, developers, lawyers, voluntary groups and other important players in the UK planning system.

WBD's national planning team was shortlisted on the back of its expertise advising public and private sector clients on a range of high profile projects. There are two matters of note.

The firm advised NHS Property Services Limited (NHSPS) on a...

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South West engineering company supports NHS during pandemic

An engineering company that provides vital services to NHS hospitals throughout the South West and Wales is using funding support from NatWest so it can continue helping frontline medical staff during the coronavirus pandemic.

Rotamec, which is headquartered in Cheddar and has offices in Exeter, Pontypool and Redditch , is a specialist engineering firm that supports multiple sectors with the provision and repair of electrical and mechanical infrastructures and facilities.

These include important heating and pump systems used in hospital theatres and patient wards, which...

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Leading in Troubled Times: How to keep your people motivated, engaged & well

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Posted: Wed, 04/29/2020 - 9:16am

Dr. Peter Totterdill, CEO of Workplace Innovation Europe CLG, based in Exeter, looks at how businesses can use the current pandemic to reflect on their current performance and future direction.

‘Working from home’ is now a fact of life for millions of people while many others experience ‘social distancing’ in the workplace. Both can lead to a sense of isolation, restricting the day-to-day interaction that not only helps people to do their jobs well but which creates the feeling of being part of a team.

Yet we’re also seeing a remarkable surge in entrepreneurship and...

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Waste firm invests to help the SW fight war on plastics

As the fight against plastic pollution gains more momentum, a South West business has invested £280,000 to bring a state-of-the-art plastic processing machine to the region and help Devon and Cornwall businesses recycle more.

Devon Contract Waste (DCW), a leading South West independent waste management company has installed the next generation plastic recycling machine at its plastics recycling and reprocessing plant, DCW Polymers, in Wrangaton.

The new machinery is capable of processing in excess of 100 tonnes of plastic a week. Prior to the arrival of the new shredding...

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Tech Awards to pay tribute to Covid-19 Heroes

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Posted: Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:08pm

Heroes who are helping as part of the nation’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic will be honoured at this year’s Tech South West Awards.

Launching with a live online event on Friday May 1, the annual awards cover Bath, Bristol, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, recognising and celebrating talent, creativity, business success, education, leadership and diversity across the technology sector.

Last year the UK Hydrographic Office in Taunton, Bluefruit Software in Cornwall, University of Plymouth, Rocketmakers in...

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Top 3 lead generation tips for 2020

Is it difficult for you to generate leads for your business? Look no further,

We compiled three of the top strategies to use to generate a massive amount of relevant and high-quality leads for your business.

Let’s dive in.

1. Use cold email campaigns

One of the most effective channels to generate leads is cold email outreach. Research shows that most high-level executives in companies still expect to receive phone calls from relevant services.

So first things first. Get a really clean list of emails and have them verified. You can use a tool like Hunter...

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These are the Qualities that a Successful Entrepreneur Must Have

Working for yourself seems just like living the fantasy, does not it? Envision a universe where you are able to wake up if you need, work when you really feel just like it, and then give yourself all the off time and ancient finishes someone might desire. Sounds perfect, right?

And entrepreneurship -- that is the first or working on your own is nothing similar to that at all. It requires a whole lot of hard work and commitment, in addition to imagination and a fantastic knowledge base of this business you are trying to match into. It is not all ancient endings and overdue wake up...

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