ON THE EVE of National Apprenticeships Week, YT interviewed four apprentices to assess what they had got out of being apprentices.
Jamie Ashwell and Louisa Mozzilli from the Royal Opera House plus Will Hatton and Mo Rahman from the National Skills Academy have benefitted greatly from being apprentices.
To enable local businesses to gain an insight and understanding of the apprenticeship programme and to appreciate how it can benefit their company in developing their workforce for the future.
Goldsmith is already a shareholder in the Swiss company and has shown interest in snapping up refineries in Cressier in the canton of Neuchâtel, as well as in Britain, Belgium, Germany and France reports World Radio Switzerand.
The European Commission has today (Thursday 2 February) accepted its commitment to make an “appropriate response” to the crisis, setting up a European round table with those affected and responding to fears of permanent closures and the job losses that would result.
STUDENTS from South Essex College set sail for Gravesend last week as part of the tasks set for them as part of Thurrock Council-backed Next Top Boss.They spent the morning down at the Port of Tilbury developing tourism strategies with the port tourism chiefs.
PURFLEET-based Carpetright, Britain’s biggest seller of flooring materials, and considered a barometer of the house repair and maintenance market, has issued another profit warning; its sixth in a year.
Ministers today confirmed the regional allocations of the £500milllion fund, which is designed to boost economic growth by getting the required infrastructure built to enable the creation of new homes and jobs and get stalled projects moving again.
They explained the objects of Rotary and spent time answering many questions in connection with the formation of a new club and the ‘bigger’ Rotary picture involving local and International fundraising projects and closer to home local business networking opportunities. It is proposed this new ‘twilight’ club will meet on Mondays at 7pm in the future, the next meeting being Monday 6th February 2012.
Today’s (Tuesday 31 January’s) announcement that oil has been delivered to the Coryton refinery for the first time since its parent company went bankrupt a week ago, has been described as an important breakthrough by the Essex Euro MP who is tonight leading a lobby of the European Commission in Brussels to help find a long-term solution to keep the refinery open.
FORTH Ports, DP World and Associated British Ports (ABP) announced on 26th January 2012 that Otter Ports Holdings Ltd, owner of Forth Ports, has acquired the 67 percent ownership of Tilbury Container Services Ltd (TCS) not already owned by Forth Ports from DP World and ABP.
The firm is hoping its online success – based on top-notch customer service and a broad range – transfers to a physical store. It has also won favour with parents for its next day delivery and one hour slots. Kiddicare’s expansion is likely to worry its rivals, not least Mothercare which has suffered its far share of teething problems. It is closing 110 stores in the UK, mostly on the high street, after plunging into the red.
PETROL delivery trucks were once again coming in and out of the Petroplus Coryton oil refinery just two days after a shutdown when the company went into administration. The Corringham refinery’s administrators, Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), said after discussions with suppliers and customers, who include BP, they had started shipments of refined oil products with immediate effect, easing fears over fuel shortages.
“Those staff and their families will, quite understandably, be already reducing their expenditure which will mean less being spent in local shops, pubs, restaurants and leisure facilities and if Coryton does close that knock on effect will escalate.
National Grid undertook a wide-ranging public consultation and completed exhaustive technical studies into the plans for connecting the power station to the transmission system (or National Grid if preferred). However, a recent review found that with fewer power generators than originally anticipated needing connecting to the grid in the area, the power station could be connected using the existing substation at South Coryton.
“The loss of 1, 000 jobs would be a real blow to the South Essex economy, which is already suffering. It would affect not just the Coryton workers and their families but the whole community, which would feel the knock on effects of such a large number of job loses.
PETROPLUS, Europe’s largest oil refinery, based in Corringham, has filed for bankruptcy and closed down all petrol supplies. The decision comes after it defaulted on $1.75 billion of loans.
FOLLOWING today’s suspension of shares in the Swiss parent company Petroplus responsible for Britain’s Coryton oil refinery, the Member of the European Parliament responsible for its Essex base who has spearheaded European attempts to prevent up to a 1,000 job losses at the refinery says workers are left fearing for the worst.
The council won a £5 million, four-year bid for sustainable transport in 2011 and on Tuesday (10 January), representatives from the Land Transport Authority for Singapore (LTA) came to see what was being done.
Staff at the Lakeside store told YT that they expect to find out on Thursday who may be losing their jobs. It is understood the stores will stay open and the slimmed-down company will be sold on. All stores would continue to operate as usual, said KPMG in a statement. No stores had been closed and there had been no immediate redundancies.
John Kent, the Leader of Thurrock Council, has reacted angrily to the news that plans for an airport in the Thames estuary are being taken seriously by the government.
“There are so many things wrong with this so-called Boris island idea it’s hard to believe the government want to spend public money talking about it — I suppose it could kill the proposal once and forever.”
Prime Minister David Cameron is said to be supportive of Mr Johnson’s alternative to expanding Heathrow, but will await the outcome of the consultation. Sources close to Mr Johnson said the idea of an airport to the east of London, which would be built partly on reclaimed land, had been gaining ground in conversations with ministers and a formal consultation was a major step forward.
“Supply of crude oil to Coryton is guaranteed only to the end of the month, and we must move beyond these stop-gap solutions to ensure not just the protection of nearly a thousand jobs at Coryton but also to keep the pumps flowing for British and other European motorists.
Labour are calling on the government to use the hundreds of millions of pounds of unspent money allocated to the scheme and extend the tax break to all existing small firms, with fewer than 10 employees, who take on extra workers. The national insurance tax break would apply for a year for each additional employee taken on and could help up to 2,790 small businesses in Thurrock.
Essex FSB Chairman, Iain Wicks, said: “The Index, comprising some 1,600 responses from businesses across the UK, recorded a score of -24.5 – the lowest level since the Index started in 2010 and is a fall of some 15.2 points over the quarter. Given that economic recovery is relying on business investment to create jobs and support the recovery, the ongoing weak sentiment is worrying.
