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Companies that do not offer flexible working opportunities to their employees are losing out on a fairly large number of highly-skilled recruits, a recent report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has been able to find. The research found that only 6.2 per cent of ‘quality’ job vacancies were advertised with options to work flexibly. […]

A significant deal for the continued in-service support of the RAF Hercules C-130J fleet has managed to secure up to 1,200 jobs across the UK,1,100 of which are located in Cambridge, a recent news report has been able to reveal. The six-year support contract with Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has also resulted in savings […]

Thousands of new homes are set to be built in two new “garden towns” around Didcot and the UK government has already expressed their support for the scheme by pledging £1.1m towards the project, a news report could reveal.

A total of 3,500 new homes, along with nearly 100,000 sq ft of community, business, leisure and retail space are set to be built on the site of a disused Parcelforce depot in Stephenson Street, Newham, London, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.

Plans for a major regeneration scheme in the Greenwich Peninsula have been officially approved by the The Mayor of London Boris Johnson, a recent news report has been able to reveal. The plan has now been drawn up for the 80-hectare former gasworks site being developed by Knight Dragon.

The level of employment in the UK has reached its highest point since 1971 over the three months leading to September 2015, recent statistical figures released by the ONS (office for national statistics) have been able to reveal.

More than half (57%) of the UK’s small businesses are family-run, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal.

One of the UK’s largest construction contractors will build eight schools in the Birmingham region under the Construction West Midlands (CWM) framework, a recent news report in has been able to reveal.

A Peterborough retail centre is set to create 800 new temporary jobs in the run up to Christmas, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal. Retailers at Peterborough’s Queensgate shopping centre have gone on quite an impressive recruitment drive in preparation for the forthcoming shopping seasion.

A parcel delivery company has revealed plans to create 60 new jobs across the East of England, a news report has been able to reveal. DPD has confirmed it is recruiting 58 new drivers to join its expanding owner-driver franchise programme in Peterborough and Snetterton (Norfolk), while also creating around 130 jobs in Dartford, Maidstone, Reading and Exeter.

Up to 1,200 jobs at a plant in Scunthorpe and at two sites in Scotland are set to be cut, the UK’s largest steelmaker, Tata Steel, has announced recently.

A Leicester-based solar energy firm that employs 1,165 people across the UK has called in administrators and is likely to render over 900 members of staff jobless, a news report has been able to reveal. The Mark Group went under and Deloitte were appointed as administrators on 07 October.