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A fully-funded, after-hours support programme aimed specifically at helping local people start and grow a business is launching at the Node Enterprise Centre in Barnstaple.

Initially held online, Startup Club will give local people thinking of starting their own business or looking to turn their passion into a career, all the resources they need to set up and begin trading, including weekly expert-led workshops and support.

The eight-week programme, which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, will feature a series of workshops where individuals will learn...

The Trade Marks team at Ashfords LLP has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading trade mark practices in the WTR 1000 2021 .

Just released, the WTR 1000 eleventh edition is the only guide exclusively dedicated to identifying the world’s leading trade mark legal services providers. The guide serves as the definitive tool to locating the best trademark advisers in the world.

Through an extensive research process, conducted by a team of highly qualified, full-time analysts, the publication identifies the leading trade mark law firms and individuals in over 80 global...

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Boost in funding for apprenticeships “welcome” to “help encourage a vital stream of talent into the construction industry”.

“In the medium-term and beyond October, we would like to see wholesale reform of stamp duty land tax”.

“We would encourage Government to consider permanently reducing the current stamp duty tax bands across all levels, including the higher bands”.

Matthew Pratt, Redrow’s Group CEO, comments: “Overall today’s Budget gives hope for the UK’s recovery, and we welcome the boost in funding for apprenticeships, which will help...

A business in Honiton has become the 1,000th customer to be installed with ultrafast full fibre broadband from Jurassic Fibre.

MC² Audio – which manufactures and exports audio amplifiers around the world – was connected to Jurassic Fibre’s custom-built network last week. The network provides internet speeds of up to 950Mbps for residential customers and up to 10Gbps for business customers.

Commenting on the move to Jurassic Fibre, Mark Bailey, Sales and Logistics Manager at MC² Audio, said: “We’ve been with a competitor for many years and the service has been ok, but we’...