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Black Country entrepreneur transforms garden workshop into £1.2 million garden furniture empire

A Black Country entrepreneur has turned a rainy-day side hustle into a thriving £1.2 million garden furniture business.

Business|Mar 28

Matt at work in his garden workshop

Sam Norton, Inco Contracts

Cannock firm celebrates 'best ever' year

Business Picks|Mar 11

Dudley College apprenticeships

National Apprenticeships Week: Earn and learn on an Apprenticeship at Dudley College

Business Picks|Feb 13

Dudley College Campus

Apprenticeships Week: IoT delivering higher apprenticeships

Business Picks|Feb 13

Composty co-founder Matt Guest

'We've been bootstrapped to this point' - How two Kingswingford teachers started a successful eco-friendly cleaning products business

Business Picks|Feb 11

The team at ClickingMad

Pride as Shropshire website agency celebrates 25 years

Business Picks|Feb 5

Lora and Ryan with their new baby Theodore.

Shropshire couple excited to take on new franchise and aim to build on 'great legacy'

Business Picks|Jan 28

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Neal Moy

Paragon Bank supports property developers across the Midlands through £150m development finance

Business Picks|Jan 28

Crystal shop owner lives the dream as she turns passion into successful Newport business

Business Picks|Jan 26

Adam Willetts, associate director development, Urban Splash - Glenn Harris, executive director, Midland Heart - Henriette Breukelaar, regional director, Canal & River Trust (West Midlands) - Richard Parker, Mayor of the West Midlands - Joe Reeves, executive director of finance & growth Midland Heart - Martin Edwards, regional development director Places for People - Matt Beckley, director of development Keon Homes and Simon Gawthorpe, director, Urban Splash

Extra £1.7 million allocated to West Midlands social housing scheme

Business Picks|Jan 21

McLaughlin & Harvey

Commercial feature: Building in the heart of the city

Business Picks|Jan 21

Ibstock commercial feature

Investment of £64m in new Atlas brick factory in Walsall brings new jobs, apprenticeships and lower-carbon bricks

Business Picks|Jan 21

Lord directors Emma Tibbetts, second left, MD Stuart Smith and Greg Jones with the Midlands Air Ambulance team

Heating specialists Lord Combustion Services look ahead to another year of success

Business Picks|Jan 21

Apic

Commercial feature: APiC UK Limited celebrates unprecedented growth and sustainability milestones

Business Picks|Jan 21

Nightingale House, set within the former Royal Hospital, officially opened in January within the converted former hospital.

Commercial Feature: whg - Shaping places and building futures

Business Picks|Jan 21

Commercial feature: Will Hire set to celebrate 21 years

Business Picks|Jan 21

City of Wolverhampton College is making a significant contribution to the regeneration of the region by providing first-class training to enable local people to develop the skills and knowledge needed by employers in a range of priority sectors.

Wolverhampton College boosting skills development across region

Business Picks|Jan 21

The front cover of Isabelle's cookbook 'A Taste of Tradition'

Teenager’s cookbook championing her family’s ‘special’ recipes goes viral

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Passengers queue at a check-in desk at Heathrow Terminal 2

Heathrow records busiest April for passenger numbers

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Sir Keir Starmer

Better English standards and decade in UK to be demanded before citizenship

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Spring Statement 2025

Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns to stand for election as Greens co-leaders

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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson

‘Generational shift’ in free childcare will give women freedom, says Phillipson

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Head and shoulders of Lord John Bird, founder of the Big Issue

Big Issue founder steps up anti-poverty campaign

UK News|8 hours ago

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Primary school pupils begin reading partnership with Ukrainian children

Viral news|8 hours ago

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Partially-sighted man to travel across UK to raise funds for Fife charity

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School pupils hold up a Ukrainian flag

Co Antrim pupils building lasting links with Ukrainian school

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Crowds watch illuminations during the Bealtaine Fire Festival at the Hill of Uisneach in Co Westmeath

Spectators gather for ancient Celtic fire procession that welcomes summer

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Kevin Beresford has devoted 12 months entirely to the industrial action blighting his home city for his calendar called "Rats The Size of Cats".

Britain's 'dullest man' selling merchandise dedicated to the Birmingham bin strikes

Birmingham|May 7

The Royal Mint VE Day commemorative 50p coin

Coins to mark 80 years since VE Day launched by Royal Mint

Viral news|Apr 30

A Palestinian girl struggles to obtain donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis

Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter kills at least 16 people in Gaza

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Calm reported along Indian and Pakistani border after days of fighting

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Young people hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan

Kurdish militant group PKK to disband and disarm after 40-year insurgency

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Trump promises to bring down the cost of medications

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Trump’s envoy confirms Hamas has agreed to release hostage

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Hamas to release American hostage as part of ceasefire efforts

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