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A brand new hotel has opened in Basingstoke, as part of Village Hotel Club’s £480m investment programme. Village Hotel Basingstoke has 153 bedrooms and a gym, and is home to a branch of Starbucks and the co-working space VWorks. The Village Hotel Club hopes to open an additional 20 new hotels in the next six […]

Durkan, an independent construction company, has been chosen to build the next phase in the regeneration of South Thamesmead in south east London The company is already building phase one, which consists of 130 new homes around a lakeside square with shops, cafes, leisure facilities, library and civic building. Phase two will be more than […]

Bright & Beautiful, a domestic housekeeping services business, has moved its head office from Manchester to Banbury in Oxfordshire. Bright and Beautiful is a franchise of Neighbourly, which has 3,700 franchise locations in 9 different countries, including 5 brands in the UK. Sue Moore, managing director of Bright & Beautiful, said: “We’re so proud of […]

Mote Park, in Maidstone, will get a new café and visitor centre thanks to approval of planning committee.

Zenergi, a customer services company, has expanded its current premises at Southampton Science Park.

Onecom, a provider of telecoms to businesses, is looking to expand its workforce by approximately 30%.

A car park next to Compass House, a prominent Southampton building, may be developed into a hotel if plans are approved. Compass House, in the Maybush district of Southampton, used to be the home of the Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, until 2011. Approval has already been granted to transform these premises into 245 flats.

Starling Bank has opened its first office outside of London, in the city of Southampton.

With the summer holiday season over for this year, your company might have fallen foul of the many problems caused by out-of-date and inefficient holiday booking procedures.

Biometrics are measurements and/or calculations of the human body, used to identify people.

Accurate monitoring of sickness absences is vital in any workplace. This means something more trackable than a phone-call, or an email to their line manager.

More and more workplaces are needing to grapple with the additional needs of remote workers, as that option becomes steadily more popular. Over the last ten years, the number of UK workers moving into remote working positions has increased by almost 250,000 according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).