Recently added articles from Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK):
Riding the economic roller-coaster guide
Jul 02, 2009 ... O nce upon a time one could consider the health of the Devon andCornwall economy in isolation from the rest of the UK. Not anymore. The current financial crisis and accompanying global recessionhas given a very different perspective. What happens on one sideof the world, such ...
The logic to survival is simple and compelling
Jul 02, 2009 ... P ricewaterhousecoopers LLP is delighted to be working inpartnership with the Western Morning News in the production of theDevon and Cornwall Top 150, now in its 12th year. PricewaterhouseCoopers has been involved in the publication,which two years ago grew into the larger Annual ...
Buckling down and getting on
Jul 02, 2009 ... W ith some major regeneration and improvement schemes planned forthe area east of Exeter, East Devon is well placed to benefit fromsome economic boosts. Key projects planned for the area include the new community ofCranbrook, which will provide 2,900 homes in the first phase, ...
City prepared to bounce back
Jul 02, 2009 ... O ver the past decade, Exeter has established a reputation as acity with a strong base of science and knowledge, and a relativelyhealthy, diverse economy. Although it has not escaped the economic downturn, it is bearingup well, and business leaders believe partnerships between ...
Healthy mix helps area to pull through
Jul 02, 2009 ... T he devastating impact of the recession has been blamed on theUK economy depending too heavily on one sector - financial services. But in Somerset, the effects of the downturn have not been asgreat precisely because of the way the county has spread itsoptions. "Indicators ...
Games build-up can give boost
Jul 02, 2009 ... I t is a long way from London to West Dorset. But the area willbe full of Olympians in just three years' time now, as the areaplays host to the 2012 Games' boating events. And work is already under way in Weymouth to make sure that theevents taking place there go smoothly and are ...
Remember the lessons learned for next time
Jul 02, 2009 ... W hat a difference a year makes. Looking back at my opening remarks to last year's Annual Business Guide things seemed to be going so well with Westcountry firms remaining stubbornly optimisticabout economic prospects. If only we could have known then that theUK's economy was about to ...
Labour spends its way out of recession
Jul 02, 2009 ... R ed ink manufacturers are probably one of the few industriesable to benefit from the state of the public finances - gallons ofthe stuff have dripped from Alistair Darling's quill as he studiesthe nation's accounts. Over the next two years, the Government is borrowing ...
Pasty wars lift region's profile
Jul 02, 2009 ... I t's not all cream teas and biscuits in the Westcountry,especially when you're a Devon pasty firm sparking a war over theCornish pasty. While cross-border spats are fairly common between Devon andCornwall, as both try to lay claim to having the best traditionalfayre, no-one ...
Optimism and opportunity shine through ; It has been a tough year and conditions could become even more difficult before we see light at the end of a very dark tunnel.
Jul 02, 2009 ... It has been a tough year and conditions could become even moredifficult before we see light at the end of a very dark tunnel. The predictions of a year ago that forecast unprecedented gloomand economic collapse were only partially right and the good news isthat many of us are still ...
Building a strong devolution argument ; Cornwall opened a new chapter in local politics this year with the launch of its new super-council.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Cornwall opened a new chapter in local politics this year withthe launch of its new super-council. April saw England's most westerly county switch to a singlecouncil structure. Decisions over whether to improve a road, close a school or builda factory will no longer be split ...
Future looks buoyant in boats
Jul 02, 2009 ... E very cloud has a silver lining, so the saying goes, but in thecase of Princess Yachts it's more gold than silver. The Plymouth treasure has ended months of concern among businessleaders about its future in the city as demand for leisure boatsdropped, staff were laid off and its ...
Visitors seek a warm welcome as well as some good weather
Jul 02, 2009 ... T he feast of St Swithin is a little under a fortnight away, aday upon which, according to legend, a spot of drizzle can result ina further 40 of showers. It can take a lot to dampen the holidayspirit, but two consecutive summers that were at best damp and atworst torrential, had ...
Investment up as firms look to the future
Jul 02, 2009 ... A s THE nation is now well aware, there are huge gains to be madein fixing leaking water pipes and attending to the sewage system.Entirely by coincidence, less than a month after Totnes MP AnthonySteen resigned over his expenses claims in May, South West Water sawits operating profit ...
Research and development are likely to drive future success
Jul 02, 2009 ... O utput has fallen across the UK by 10 per cent in the past ninemonths alone, but experts see a "mixed picture," for manufacturingin the South West. Among the high-profile casualties in the sector over the pastyear have been the Plymouth-based manufacturing operations ...
Squeeze may last another year
Jul 02, 2009 ... T he Westcountry's engineering sector has had its high-profilecasualties, as manufacturers feel the impact of recession. Among them, were Fitzgerald Lighting of Bodmin, which enteredinto administration in December, 300 workers at Princess Yachts laidoff at the beginning of June, ...
Job losses all round, but west avoids worst
Jul 02, 2009 ... I t HAS been a year dominated by job losses in a sector that hasled economic growth across the UK. With the banking sector brought to its knees by so-called "toxicdebts" from the collapse of the American sub prime lending market,the economic fall-out was always going to be ...
Sector feels effects of ill wind
Jul 02, 2009 ... T he marine sector, like every other sector, has not been immuneto the economic ill wind - but it's very much a mixed picture herein the South West. Strong in both the leisure and commercial boat-building arenas, the sector in the South West was worth pounds834.5million at the last count ...
Radically changing our lives
Jul 02, 2009 ... B roadband, a word virtually unheard of just 15 years ago, hasemerged as one of the most hotly discussed subjects of modern times. Nobody knows this better than BT Group. The largest broadbandprovider in the UK and one of the South West's largest employersannounced a series of ...
Campaigns have brought about major changes
Jul 02, 2009 ... W estcountry farmers are often viewed as people who have a lotto complain about - and certainly the whole farming community isperceived as being good at it. Or, at least, it used to be. High-profile campaigns by celebrity chefs on the benefits and efficaciesof home-grown produce, backed ...