5 Effective Local Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses

It's easy to get caught up in the latest and greatest marketing techniques as more and more come our way, but it's always important to take a step back and make sure that you have a good foundation in place and none of your previous tactics are slipping. In local marketing, businesses put a lot of effort at the start and then let it fall by the wayside as the year moves on. 2016 is the perfect time to refresh some of these "must-have" local techniques. Check out these Local Marketing Tactics Read more [...]

MARKET REPORT: National Grid is finding favour amid whispers UK’s largest listed utility has a major acquisition in …

By Geoff Foster for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 GMT, 21 January 2016 | Updated: 21:55 GMT, 21 January 2016 View comments Forever considered a defensive area of the market in times of extreme stress, selected utilities continue to find favour on yield considerations.National Grid, which brings in a stonking dividend yield of 4.8 per cent, rose 7.6p to 925.4p amid whispers Read more [...]

Community event cancellations | Submit your listing

Here is a list of events that have been cancelled this weekend.Only events submitted to Action News are listed. Check back as new listings are added.If you have an event to add to this list, use the form on this page to submit the information.EVENT CANCELLATIONS:-ArtsQuest is cancelling or postponing its programming at SteelStacks and the Banana Factory this Saturday including the Improv Comedy Festival. The Comedy Festival, originally set for Jan. 21-22 at the ArtsQuest Center, 101 Founders Read more [...]

Timepage: A Beautiful and Clever Calendar App

Although I'm sure Moleskine has crossed your radar once or twice in the past, it most likely was for its collection of notebooks, diaries, or pencils. But you may be unfamiliar with Moleskine Timepage, a calendar app that is a step away from the traditional Moleskine image. Through some interesting features and a beautiful interface, there's a good chance that you'll be keeping Moleskine's app development division on your radar. Week View Despite Timepage's name, I'd be more inclined Read more [...]

CHANGING PLACES: Find out the new uses for 11 pubs across the Bradford …

OLD pubs across Bradford are being given a new lease of life in a variety of imaginative ways with a 11 applications granted for conversions in the last year alone. Houses, flats and restaurants are common re-uses, but in Bradford, shops, a madrassa, an outreach project catering for homeless people, and a nursery are recent examples. Danielle Dixon runs day nurseries across the district and has converted former pubs three times, finding the space provided by old public Read more [...]

Campaigners will try to get listed status for building earmarked for student flats

Campaigners hope to get a Liverpool city centre roller rink building listed to protect it from plans to knock it down for student accommodation. Love Canning, a forum representing those who live in the Georgian Quarter , is set to apply for the community asset listing after supporters met to discuss proposals for the old Rodney Youth Centre. If they are successful the site, on the Mulberry Street/Myrtle Street junction, would be afforded extra protection against efforts to demolish it. Around Read more [...]

KPMG and PwC dominate listed audit market

BIG FOUR rivals KPMG and PwC have dominated the listed audit market over the last decade, according to the 2015 corporate adviser ranking guide. Over the last ten years, KPMG has ousted PwC from top spot by way of client numbers, though PwC remains by far and away the most successful auditor when judged by the aggregate market-cap of its clients. Deloitte and EY retained their respective standings over the ten-year period, but with greatly reduced client counts. The Read more [...]

Bats and mud hold up work on old War Memorial Hospital development

Demolition work at Melton’s former War Memorial Hospital site looks set to begin in March despite bats and muddy conditions holding up progress. As previously reported in the Melton Times plans to build 98 homes at the site on Ankle Hill have already been approved, subject to conditions, by the borough council’s planning committee.Birmingham-based developer Projects 2000 Ltd intends to build 40 homes as well as a block of 38 retirement apartments on the site. It Read more [...]

CHANGING PLACES: Former pubs get new leases of life in a variety of guises

OLD pubs across Bradford are being given a new lease of life in a variety of imaginative ways with almost a dozen applications granted for conversions in the last 12 months alone. Houses, flats and restaurants are common re-uses, but in Bradford, shops, a madrassa, an outreach project catering for homeless people, and a nursery are recent examples. Danielle Dixon runs day nurseries across the district and has converted former pubs three times, finding the space provided Read more [...]