More than 50 workers at the Swindon site of collapsed parcel delivery firm City Link have been made redundant, it was announced this afternoon – leaving 19 staff to clear a backlog and wind down the depot. The 54 workers losing their jobs at the site on Royal Wootton Bassett’s Interface Business Park are...
North Wiltshire businessman and social housing champion David Ashmore and master arrowsmith Hector Cole have been appointed MBEs in the New Year Honours list. Mr Ashmore, pictured, a board member of the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and until January 2013 chief executive of housing group Greensquare, was recognised for “services to housing...
More than 70 workers based at collapsed parcel delivery firm City Link’s Swindon depot face an anxious few days as they wait to find out if they are to lose their jobs. The depot, pictured, on Wootton Bassett’s Interface Business Park, is the firm’s largest in the South West and employs 73 staff. They...
Ian Larrard, director of the Swindon & Wiltshire Initiative at Business West, looks back at the past 12 months and considers why next year’s General Election is set to be one of the most important in recent memory. “The noise and glare of fireworks this New Year must not mask the fact that we...
Vastern Timber, the Royal Wootton Bassett-based sawmill, is using two restoration projects it completed at the Tower of London this year to showcase its use of English oak and to make the case for British timber. The firm supplied wood for the reinstatement of the historic building’s drawbridge as well for furniture for the...
Monday 22 December AGM: Kolar Gold EGMs: Eco City Vehicles, Noble Tuesday 23 December AGMs: Inspirit Energy, Red Rock Resources EGMs: Cupid, Dairy Crest Economics: BBA house purchase loans, GDP (Q3, final revision), Current account balance (Q3) Wednesday 24 December Nothing scheduled Thursday 25 December UK Bank holiday – nothing scheduled Friday 26 December...
