The Solent Hotel and Spa in Whiteley has clinched the top spot in the 2011 Beautiful South’s Awards for Excellence with a Gold Award in the Business Tourism category. The awards, held at Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey, recognise businesses and destinations across the tourism industry for their exceptional levels of customer service and dedication [...]
Marks and Spencer and Next are confirmed as retailers in a £64million development scheme at the Whiteley Outlet Village. Design plans in store for new Whiteley shopping centre The Whiteley Co-Ownership Trust has announced approximately 50 per cent of the floorspace has already been let for the 300,000 sq ft development located next to the Tesco [...]
Fareham-based IT company Taylor Made Computer Solutions has beaten off stiff competition from around the UK and Europe to win two coveted awards at an industry summit in Amsterdam. Taylor Made Computer Solutions outperformed other IT companies, winning two of the five awards during the ceremony hosted by N-Able, industry leaders in managed services software. [...]
Nine jobs are to be cut at The Co-operative supermarket in Locks Heath as part of a review of the business country-wide. Of the 166 full and part-time members of staff at the store in the Locks Heath shopping centre, the equivalent of nine full-time employees are being urged to take voluntary redundancy. After conducting [...]
Ten jobs will be created after councillors gave the go-ahead for a Costa Coffee kiosk to be built in the Locks Heath shopping centre. Fareham Borough Council planning committee voted in favour of the 1,500 sq ft pod at the centre, which will come equipped with indoor and outdoor seating. Centre owners NewRiver Retail are [...]
Staff at Segensworth Automobiles are delighted to welcome four new employees to their team as they announce their new Body Repair Workshop. Rhianon Lewis, managing director, is welcoming four new members of staff to work in the new repair centre at the company’s location in Barratt Industrial Park, Whittle Avenue, Segensworth. Paul Johnson and Mark [...]
Staff at Elemense recruitment company in Whiteley will take to the 10-mile BUPA Great South Run for a baby charity. The team of 11 hope to raise more than £2,000 for Friends of PICU, Southampton General Hospital’s Paedatric Intensive Care Unit. Ed Whitehouse, Ashton Church, Tiwalola Otukpe, Lauren Barker, Gemma Lovejoy, Debbie Stock, Nathan Taylor, [...]
The popular annual week-long Used Boat Show is returning to Swanwick Marina from today (September 16) for its 32nd consecutive year. The marina in Lower Swanwick plays host to six leading boat companies selling a wide choice of boats. Premier Marinas is also offering a return coach service to the PSP Southampton Boat Show with [...]
FirstGroup buses in Hampshire has announced a £1.9 million investment in revolutionary touch ticketing technology – including for its fleet running through the Western Wards. The company will be introducing a new ‘touch in, touch out’ scheme, similar to the London Oyster card, for its buses. The new ticket machines, designed to read contactless debit [...]
Fareham Borough Council is backing Southampton’s bid to lobby the Government for cruise industry fairness and is encouraging the public to sign the petition. Cruise ports from around the UK, including Southampton, have joined together to launch a petition asking that Liverpool’s cruise terminal not be used for turn-around cruises unless all public money that [...]
