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Web based workforce management system supplier, Webroster Ltd has been accepted onto the new ESPO framework for ‘Electronic Homecare Monitoring’ which incorporates both rostering and monitoring.

The recently introduced Nottingham Workplace Parking Levy will be bringing in £2m less in revenue than Nottingham City Council initially predicted.

A new resource for multimedia interaction recording, quality management, interaction analytics and workforce management solutions

Announced in the recent budget, VAT is now to be charged on all protein shakes, with this new law coming into place in October later this year.

The world of covert policing is an ever emerging and changing arena and our covert policing conference aims to showcase some of the cutting edge advances in this area.

Unless you been out of the country for the last few weeks, you cant fail to have heard about the latest problem facing the UK’s motorists.

CSols specialises in optimising the performance of regulated analytical laboratories by the integration and automation of laboratory data systems, scientific instruments and their laboratory staff.

South Ayrshire Council has appointed Kate O’Hagan as its new Head of Human Resources (HR) and Organisational Development, following the departure of Angela Wilson, who has taken up a post as Executive Director at West Dunbartonshire Council.

The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies, they use data8’s online data cleansing services as part of their data quality strategy.

The European Commission has approved the nationalisation of the Royal Mail's pension scheme which allows the government to privatise the Royal Mail without its huge pension scheme liabilities.

From September 2012 all schools in the UK are required to publish how they have spent their Pupil Premium and what impact it has had on their pupils. In response to this, specialist educational systems company EX Solutions have released 'TIMEextra'

The new planning rules are now irrevocably tainted by the suggestion of cash for access and must be withdrawn….

Continuing to ride the wave of success, the Panic Room Company has returned from Madrid security show SICUR 2012 (Salón Internacional de la Seguridad) where its product gained centre of attention screen time on Spain’s most-viewed TV channels.

New CCTV camera features wide and narrow beam LED infra-red (IR) illumination and 360 degree pan and tilt night vision

SSC Marketing comments on the Transatlantic Alliance between the US and UK

Visiongain’s analysis indicates that India will spend $38.51bn on defence in 2012. The Indian Defence Market 2012-2022 report finds that India’s strong and dynamic growth in military spending will continue through the next decade.

Commenting on today’s Budget announcement in relation to Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS), Tony Hales, Managing Director at Stadia Trustees, said:

Budding entrepreneurs in Ayrshire, Scotland are set to receive a fantastic boost in 2012 – and beyond – as South Ayrshire Council has agreed to part fund a fantastic new and fully expensed support unit for new businesses.

There has been much debate recently over the introduction of a mansion tax and the dropping of the 50p tax rate in order to tax the rich, but which is the fairer option?

The government recently announced proposals which will encourage homeowners to downsize their home, in the hope of increasing the availability of larger properties for families. Millgate Homes asks the question: How easy is it to downsize?

UK Mail's hybrid mailing service; imail, plays a significant role in winning a £3.3m contract to fulfil the postal service requirements of 17 London Boroughs.

Olivier Cadic will be officially announcing his running for the French Parliamentary elections of 2012 at a Press Conference 10 for 10.30 am Tuesday 20 March Café des Amis 11-14 Hanover Place London WC2E 9JP

HOURS before Bristol sees six leading media figures discuss the future of press regulation, media journalist Roy Greenslade has challenged the Leveson Inquiry to investigate how the Sun got some of its 'exclusives' during the Jo Yeates case.

The influence of a genetic component to an individual’s susceptibility to mesothelioma has been the subject of ongoing research in recent years as attempts to prevent the onset of the incurable cancer continue.

LogiXML, the web-based business intelligence (BI) software provider, is demonstrating its agile and sophisticated technology at Parkex, Europe's largest dedicated trade Parking Exhibition, at Olympia, London, on 17/18 April.

Asbestos awareness to the widespread use of asbestos as an inexpensive insulator and fire retardant during the twentieth century was recently raised once again by a recent report of asbestos fibre being present everywhere across the entire...

Despite reports of consumers being squeezed and the country being plunged back into recession, Chris Endsor, chief executive of Miller Homes, believes this year will see significant change for the better within the property market.

Mike Norton, editor of the Bristol Evening Post, and Steve Brodie, BBC Points West Home Affairs correspondent, join the panel for Hacked to Bits, the 2012 Benn Debate this Friday

Chief Fire Officer, James Courtney of South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (SYFR) welcomed 70 attendees to the 2012 Cadcorp Fire Conference, held at the brigade’s HQ in Sheffield on 6th March.

The Government has announced its next stage of a review of governance arrangements for English National Parks in order to increase local accountability.

HEALTH and social care groups are being urged to have their say on how a new Staffordshire watchdog and consumer champion should be run.

The Romanian Government has recently announced a planned series of privatizations that focuses primarily on the energy and transport sectors.

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Immigration drives communication trends world wide and Nvirocom group are hot on its tail driving down user costs but increasing user quality and capacity.

Out of town shopping centres and retail parks are now part of our everyday lives, housing large retail stores with free parking, but with town centre vacancy rates doubling in the last two years what is the future of the British High Street?

Damning report on competence of failed Bristol TMO development reveals huge problems and cost to taxpayer of £212,339.64

As Greece tips deeper into a seemingly spiraling financial disaster, the latest rescue package comes in the form of an extra £108 billion in a new bail-out deal.

As the SDS Bill is laid before the Scottish Parliament; a consortium of specialist agencies plan to lead the way in making self directed support accessible to all people who have sensory needs.

CESG, the UK Government’s National Technical Authority for Information Assurance, and Becrypt, a leading data security provider, are pleased to announce the first product to be certified under CESG’s Commercial Product Assurance scheme.

New mobile compliance solution meets all regulatory requirements to record customer interactions taking place over mobile phones

Could more employee-owned businesses like the retailer John Lewis help the economy recover. DEPUTY Prime Minister, Nick Clegg will travel across the country this week he launched a Government initiative to encourage Mutualism.

Praetorian Marketing have discovered that the popular fast food chain Burger King has pulled out of the Governments ‘Get Britain Working’ scheme.

HARD PRESSED: This year Bristol NUJ expands its annual Benn Lecture into two events on the future of the media.

Nvirocom Group are steaming ahead in the telecoms industry, Success of licensing in Cameroon has opened the doors to a whole new look at call termination in Africa.

Local authorities are facing not only financial, but legislative pressures from the Localism Bill - Without Good Strategic Governance, many Local Authorities will simply flounder. This whitepaper explores how good governance can be implemented.

Without robust strategic joint governance, the reforms will fail, a lot of money will be wasted, as will many careers. The whitepaper by Op2i, written by Dr Bharat Vagadia, examines the challenges, but also the opportunities for successful reform.

In the UK in 2010, the rising number of asbestosis claim cases had reached over 1,160 while around 2,000 incurable asbestos-related mesothelioma cases continue to be diagnosed every year.

Apart from alcohol and tobacco smoking, it is known that three quarters of all cancers are caused by the main carcinogens of sunlight, silica, mineral oils - and the most predominant - exposure to asbestos.

HEART UK, the Cholesterol Charity, has today urged health authorities in England to undertake a targeted national programme of testing for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia, a form of inherited raised cholesterol, and prevent thousands of early deaths.

Clwyd West AM Darren Millar took the Communities Minister to meet TAPE, a social enterprise based on Old Colwyn to discuss their hard hitting Legacy film project.