This month, they will both be held on Thursday, 26 January. The first will between 2pm and 3.30pm and the second between 7pm and 8.30pm and will provide hints and tips on everything from budgeting to borrowing, insurance to retirement-planning.
THE LOW Carbon Business Programme together with the Green Business Forum has already engaged with over 130 Thurrock-based businesses, completed energy audits in 36, and approved more than £160,000 worth of grants for cost-saving projects. The programme is part of the government’s package of publicly funded business support designed to help companies start and grow, and is available until December 2012.
PURFLEET workers at consumer goods giant Unilever are to stage a new series of strikes in a huge escalation of a row over pensions, it was announced today. Leaders of three trade unions decided to call strikes for up to 12 days starting on January 17 in protest at the ending of Unilever's final salary pension scheme reports the Huffington Post.
“Clearly safety must come first so the decision can be understood but the knock on effects on the road network were horrendous with long queues on the M25 itself as well as the A13, A127 and A2 causing major delays for motorists and costing businesses thousands of pounds.
YT went along to interview Andrew to discuss his life as an economist especially his work for the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) where he has been in the engine room of Bank of England fiscal decisions.
The new power station will burn wood pellets to produce electricity and is located on the site of the utility's ageing Tilbury coal-fired power plant, which will shut down by the end of 2015. The plant received its first delivery of 46,000 tonnes of wood pellets in November from Georgia in the United States, where RWE Innogy owns a biomass pellet factory.
Petroplus has made a statement from its Swiss HQ saying onging negotiations with banks were “open and constructive”, though the company has declined to comment on how its financial position will impact on Coryton, which Petroplus bought from BP in 2007 for a reported £714.6m.
“It is ridiculous that staff, who are graduates with post-graduate training and years of experience, are having to take second jobs just to meet bills. This year alone at this centre, we have had two members of staff leave the profession because they felt they just couldn’t afford to work here.
If you are a business based in the Thames Gateway corridor this is an opportunity to identify, share and discuss the challenges that are standing in the way of business growth:
It said its stores at Brent Cross Shopping Park, north west London, and Croydon were performing ahead of expectations, while a further store at Lakeside is due to open in Summer 2012.
WAGES in Thurrock fell by twice the national average and it is the coalition government who are to blame says the GMB union. In what makes for bleak reading at the end of the year, Thurrock’s full time workers suffered the second worst fall in living standards in the region with a drop of 11.6%.
“2012 is also the year when the South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) has got to prove its worth.
The first year of operation has seen too much time spent on getting governance and other procedures finalised and not enough on delivering real results to benefit businesses across Greater Essex, Kent and East Sussex.
SPORTS clubs, churches and voluntary groups face a £100 a day bill for driving older minibuses anywhere in Greater London from next week when tough new emission standards come into force throughout the capital.
Lakeside Shopping Centre has almost reached the end of its 21 Good Deeds campaign and has donated more than 100 toys to Thurrock Women’s Aid, a nearby charity that supports local families seeking protection from domestic violence.
A representative of the applicants, APSCT Ltd told the committee that the club brought much needed employment to the area by employing up to seventy people.
He continued: "It is a safe environment and has a proven track record. A number of high quality acts have performed there including the LA Centerfolds."
