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Nottingham-based small and medium businesses will be able to apply for grants ranging between £500 and £5,000 in order to boost their development and growth, a news report in the local business media has revealed.

Leicester City Council’s planning committee decided to accept the proposals for Leicester Food Park, which will be located on a council-owned site off Lewisher Road in the north-east of the city, a news report in the local media has revealed.

Denso, an important part supplier for the automotive industry, has announces plans to boost its workforce after securing some very lucrative contracts with BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

In a bid to support the creation and development of new businesses, the UK Government has decided to create a new fund worth £69m, a news report in the media has revealed. The package includes £34m for the Start-Up Loans scheme, that typically provides a loan of about £4,500 to help get business ideas off the ground. So far more than 35,000 entrepreneurs have formally registered an interest in loan through the scheme with almost 8,000 start-ups helped.

Car maker Jaguar has just announced plans to create up to 1,700 new jobs at its plant in Solihull as part of a £1.5bn investment in expanding its product range, a news report in the media has revealed.

AI Claims Solutions, part of the Quindell group, has just revealed plans to hire an additional 100 members of staff after successfully securing some lucrative contracts, a media news report informs us.

Rugby-based construction company Morgan Sindall has managed to secure a £15.8m contract for building the UK’s first carbon neutral lab, on a site located on the premises of the University of Nottingham.

Retail giant Waitrose has just revealed plans to open at least 10 new stores in the London area and create up to 650 new jobs in the area, a news report on the matter has revealed. Although exact locations have yet to be disclosed, it is believed that the expansion will create up to 650 jobs.

Gym group Xercise4Less has managed to secure funding from the Business Growth Fund (BGF) in order to open up to 100 new gyms across the UK, which could see up to 4,000 new jobs being created over a five-year period.

Doncaster Council’s planning committee has just granted permission for the development of a brand new business park near the Robin Hood Airport, which might see up to an impressive 1,700 new jobs being created in this area.

The Range, a Plymouth-headquartered retailer of home, leisure and garden products, has just revealed plans to create up to 6,750 new jobs across the UK in less than three years, 1,750 of which are to be in Scotland, with the opening of 45 new stores during the period. According to a new media report on the matter, five more stores are set to open in 2013 in Edinburgh, Dundee, Dudley, Milton Keynes and Southend, with a further 20 openings being planned for 2014.

The latest report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that UK unemployment fell by around 4,000 in the three months leading to June, leaving a grand total of around 2.51 million people out of work.