Personnel from the coastguard stations based in Lee-on-the-Solent and Weymouth threatened by closure walked out in the early hours of Friday morning (May 8) in the latest round of prolonged action by transport workers.
Bracknell, Berkshire is the UK headquarters of Hewlett Packard (HP) which has warned of cuts in its British operation. The global computer concern ideally would like to shed 27,000 workers.
As many as 10 jobs may go at BAE Systems’ head office in Farnborough, Hampshire as the defence firm plans to cut hundreds of jobs overall. BAE blamed reductions in orders required by the Ministry of Defence.
A man who had been living in on the run in Poole, Dorset, has been jailed. Mark McGovern was eventually tracked down overseas before being extradited. He had originally admitted laundering money but jumped bail before he could be sentenced in 2008.
New research commissioned for the BBC by Experian found that, although the number of business start-ups increased in almost every part of England, areas like Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight all saw their overall number of busin
