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Lifetime Contribution award for small business mentor

Tony Robinson with trophy, and, from left, Fabian Hamilton, MP and the IAB President, IAB chief exective Malcolm Trotter and Janet Jack, chair of the IAB council

12:20pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

A SMALL business mentor from Scarborough was awarded the Lifetime Contribution to Enterprise award at the IAB (International Association of Bookkeepers) Awards.

Revamped Zizzi branches out

Zizzi manager Paolo Sunda with artist Roberta Muzzetta, also inset, and her mural in the restaurant in Lendal, York.

12:19pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

ITALIAN restaurant Zizzi has undergone a £100,000 refurbishment.

York curry house owners fined £14,000 for breaking safety rules

Bombay Spice in Goodramgate, York

10:18am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

A BROTHER and sister and their company face a £14,000 bill for their “cavalier” and “irresponsible” attitude to safety regulations at a fire-hit York restaurant.

Opportunity knocks with high speed rail link

12:17pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

PROPOSALS on how the proposed high speed rail line HS2 can benefit areas north of Birmingham will be discussed at an event to be held in York in June.

Stodham Investments refinances

Nicola Macgregor from Barclays with Ian Walker, financial director, Stodham Investments

9:24am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

INVESTMENT company Stodham Investments Limited has refinanced through the National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS).

Maitre d’ at Bettys chalks up 40 years

Alan Stockdale, marking 40 years at Bettys in St Helen’s Square

7:52am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

AS much of a landmark in York as the Minster or the city walls, Bettys tea rooms have been a fixture in the city for 75 years this year.

£13m rise in turnover for shopfitters Simpson (York)

11:44am Monday 21st May 2012

YORK shopfitting business Simpson (York) has increased turnover by about £13 million in a strong set of results.

2,200 trips in bike challenge

Peter Shores, left, and colleagues from York PCT, talk to mechanic Eric Sander from Cycle Heaven and Martin Bolt from CTC outside the Ryedale Building in Piccadilly

11:45am Monday 21st May 2012

IN the first week of the York Cycle Challenge, employees in the city have made 2,200 trips and burned more than 380,000 calories.


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Plugging the funding gap

Business School Dean Jackie Mathers

9:46am Tuesday 1st May 2012

With reports of a £9.6 billion contraction in business lending in 2011, and missed lending quotas, banks remain under fire for not giving businesses the support they need to survive the economic downturn.

‘Yorkshire grit’ will see us through

Jackie Mathers

12:06pm Tuesday 3rd April 2012

Last month George Osborne delivered a Budget that he said, “unashamedly backs business”. From the conversations I’ve had with businesses here in York, the feeling on the ground is very much “let’s see”.



Ian Reed, director of the Yorkshire Air Museum and Visit York’s York Ambassador Of The Year 2012

Ian Reed

10:05am Tuesday 1st May 2012

Ian Reed, the newly-crowned York Ambassador at the Visit York Tourism Awards last week, has headed a period of change for the Yorkshire Air Museum as it has had to transform into a business.

Liv Garfield, BT OpenReach

Liv Garfield, BT OpenReach

11:59am Tuesday 3rd April 2012

A NORTH Yorkshire woman is the force behind the broadband revolution, leading the installation of fibre broadband into two-thirds of UK premises by the end of 2014.


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