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  • Kids help Condor Ferries get more family friendly - Condor Ferries has enlisted the help of a mum and her three young children to make them more family friendly. Michelle Leicester, from Poole in Dorset and her three children have designed a new activity book for younger passengers. The book, which is full of games, puzzles and colouring competitions, is provided free to all [...]
  • FREE PR for local charities from Seeker News - Seeker News are pleased to offer three Press Relations packages totally free of charge to local charities. If you are a charity or know one that might benefit from this offer please contact us.
  • GD9 sponsors local charity at Dorset County Show 
 - GD9 are delighted to announce they will be sponsoring Diverse Abilities Plus at the 2010 Dorset County Show. The Poole based charity, Diverse Abilities Plus, which has been around for over 50 years; provide people-centred support and services for children and adults, who have physical and/or learning difficulties. “We are really delighted to be working [...]
  • Dolphin Shopping Centre Visitors Enjoy Action-Packed Summer Fun Weekend - Dolphin Shopping Centre visitors enjoyed an action-packed weekend of free family fun as the Escape the Midday Sun events continue throughout the school holidays. The weekend’s free summer fun kicked off on Friday, August 13, with another performance from Silly Scott, the south’s leading children’s entertainer, who kept all the family amused with his magic [...]
  • Peppa Pig & George Join Summer Fun At The Dolphin Shopping Centre - Children’s TV favourites, Peppa Pig and her younger brother George will return to the Dolphin Shopping Centre, on Bank Holiday Monday, August 30, in perfect time to conclude the action-packed programme of Escape the Midday Sun events. Peppa, a loveable cheeky little piggy from the smash-hit children’s TV series, last visited the Dolphin Shopping Centre [...]
  • Dolphin Shopping Centre Visitors Help Costa Coffee Build Third World Schools - Costa Coffee staff in the Dolphin Shopping Centre are going above and beyond to get a bigger buzz from their usual job, undertaking a two-month mammoth fundraising effort to help build and furnish third world schools in coffee growing nations. For the first time, the entire Poole Costa Coffee team expanded their fundraising efforts throughout [...]
  • Sunshine Sam & Boots Help Deliver Safe Sun Advice At The Dolphin Shopping Centre - The Dolphin Shopping Centre teamed up with Boots on Saturday, August 14, to offer shoppers and tourists top tips on skin sun care, as part of the shopping centre’s Escape the Midday Sun programme of free family events. Boots’ popular children’s mascot, Sunshine Sam paid an extra special visit to the Dolphin Shopping Centre to [...]
  • Dorset businesses need to look abroad - Dorset businesses need to think about growth in the coming months and years. Because of this, Dorset County Council has supplied seed funding for a fresh, business focused group called The Dorset Export Group.  With support of key agencies, this project is being driven by Major Events International – a company with a wealth of [...]
  • Supportnet Technology solving local companies network problems - The internet has become indispensable to the modern company. A failing network can lead to companies not only losing business but ultimately going to the wall. Guarding against such disastrous eventualities is Nigel Eldred’s Ferndown-based Supportnet Technology. Support Technology is an IT consultancy geared to helping local businesses with their networking infrastructure problems. Supportnet Technology [...]
  • Lighthouse announces panto time! - There’s nothing more likely to entertain the British family more than a good old fashioned Christmas Pantomime . And the Lighthouse in Poole have announced this year’s seasonal offering – Peter Pan. The Lighthouse announced the showing with a press and photo call which included some of the favourite characters from the much loved story. [...]
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  • Dorset dry cleaners on Sherlock's case - What do super-sleuths Sherlock Holmes and Poirot have in common?
  • Mergers in South West are up - Mergers and acquisitions in the south west increased in value by 92.7 per cent during the second quarter of this year compared to the first three months.
  • Poole's catch of the day - Fish caught from within five miles of Poole are sold by Frank Greenslade Ltd, a wholesale fish merchant.
  • Bournemouth Beales sales up - Sales were stronger in August than in the previous two months, according to Beales chief executive Tony Brown.
  • AFC Bournemouth in fashion - Cherries has launched its own fashion brand.
  • Poole business keeping the trains on track - A new way of diagnosing mechanical problems on trains has been launched by a Poole company.
  • Customer care to be recognised in Dorset Business Awards - Customer loyalty is vital for business growth and this will be recognised in this year’s Daily Echo-backed Dorset Business Awards.
  • Dorset mum in running for award - AN ENTREPRENEURIAL Dorset mum is in the running for Business Mum of the Year.
  • £50m contract for Poole technology company - A £50 MILLION contract has been awarded to Hamworthy, the technology company in Poole.
  • Debt putting students off work experience - Students are being deterred from taking unpaid work experience, according to the National Council for Work Experience (NCWE).
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  • I swear it's the best way to beat pain - I have always been interested in research and market data but I had to smile at a piece of work completed by Keele University’s school of psychology.
  • UK national debt set to rise - to over £2 trillion - THE UK National debt is set to rise above £2 trillion, a figure that is higher than Britain's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - meaning the nation's wealth would be outstripped by its debt. At the end of March 2008, general government debt was £614.4 billion, equivalent to 43.2 per cent of GDP. At the end of January 2009, general government debt was £703.4 billion, equivalent to 47.8 per cent of GDP.
  • Snow good if you throw cash about! - Last Friday I was one of the speakers at the Chamber of Commerce seminar Swim, Don’t Sink!
  • Succeed or Fail in Business – Needs Positive Actions! - IT has been said, "A Butterfly flapping its wings in Peru can start a change in the weather that leads to a typhoon in China." Fear is infectious, spreads quickly and can turn out to be overwhelming and like the flapping of butterfly’s wings affecting the weather, the current economic fear started somewhere.
  • What is the solution to this crisis? - I have real concern about the rising doom-and-gloom which has been voiced by many, including the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) following a recent economic survey.
  • What would you do? - HINDSIGHT is a wonderful thing. As recession grips, “bust” (a state of the economy allegedly banned to history) seems to be following the “boom” (another state of the economy also banned to history).
  • Firms should make the most of Christmas - With the economy under strain, many small and medium-sized businesses in Dorset are beginning to find conditions tough.
  • GAIN NOW, PAIN LATER! - In his pre-Budget report Alistair Darling delivered economic downgrades bigger than any since the 1980s - the row of glum faces on the Government benches as he predicted misery for large swathes of the population said it all.
  • First £10,000 Free of Tax for SMEs or Full Steam Ahead Into a Crisis! - THE British Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Survey (Q3 2008) received over 5,000 responses from businesses of all sizes and sectors and virtually all the key national balances have worsened, and many are in negative territory for the second quarter in a row.
  • Please Sir it Wasn’t Me Sir – A Decade of Dept! - Prosperity based on borrowing is how, over the last decade, this Government have fuelled the economy. This Government and the Country has been on a borrowing binge on the back of property prices and the belief that somehow the property boom would go on and on.
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