Don’t leave staff holiday calculations until the last minute, Forum urges small firms The Forum of Private Business is calling on smaller companies to work out their employees’ holiday entitlements now in order to avoid any unpleasant surprises at the end of the year. Due to repeated changes to legislation, calculating statutory annual leave entitlements has [...]
The Seconds injury woes continued with the absence of Grog (arm), Uttley (calf and retired), Russell (calf) and Walt (pain in the neck). However they won their third match of the season, collecting maximum points, though it was against a weakened Bollington team. The match got off to a worrying start when Evo, playing at [...]
The Magic of Christmas comes alive at Arley with the scent and spectacle of thousands of fresh flowers in breathtaking floral decorations around the historic Hall on Saturday 4th December until Sunday 12th December. The Hall is magnificently decorated by local Florists G D Flowers from Manchester who will be decorating The South Bedroom, Juliette Hamilton, a local [...]
No matter how many times I’ve used it in the past, I still marvel at the colour changes and the interesting effects that you get with the simplest of patterns. The new Regia Design Line range of sock yarns called Jazz colours, designed by well know knitwear designer Erika Knight is no exception. The pattern [...]
Restaurant and bar group Living Ventures based in Knutsford, Cheshire today announced the acquisition of five restaurants from the Heathcote’s group for an undisclosed sum. The deal sees three of the Olive Press branded restaurants in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire Liverpool and Manchester city centre, moving over to Living Ventures. Grado also in Manchester and a [...]
Forward Ladies Networking Group held their first Knutsford event at Cottons Hotel and Spa on Wednesday Nov 3rd. 20 ladies enjoyed a delicious lunch and an after lunch talk by Andrea Zakers and Andrea Stott of “Nutshell Courses” Forward Ladies was started in Leeds 10 years ago to encourage and inspire women to grow and develop [...]
Members of the popular business network 4Networking may recognise the title of this article as being a “slight” play on the 4N slogan of Meet, Like, Know, Trust. Guilty as charged! But I am so passionate about the importance of building relationships in business that I totally subscribe to the Meet, Like, Know, Trust philosophy [...]
Mace & Jones head of employment law Martin Edwards issued his warning to bosses after the pensions minister Steve Webb confirmed all companies will have to abide by the new auto-enrolment rules, despite speculation smaller firms would be excluded. Mr Edwards said under the reforms all employers will be compelled to enrol their new recruits [...]
At Mary Dendy Fields , Mary Dendy took on Sandbach Town , the league leaders from the Crewe & District League. A focused Sandbach got off to a flyer scoring through Fraser Keena inside 34 seconds but Dendy were level seven minutes later when Matty Morris powered into the penalty area to fire home the [...]
The 27th ASICS Wilmslow Half Marathon will be run on Sunday 27th March 2011 at Wilmslow Rugby Club with the race starting at 10.30am. For the third year running, the race has the added prestige of incorporating the England Half Marathon Championships. The added endorsement to this ever popular and prestigious race guarantees that the [...]
