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Character DPM calls in administrators
Merseyside direct mail and printing company Character DPM Group, which has bought a string of businesses from the hands of administrators in recent months, has itself gone into administration. The company employed 173 staff at four locations in Bootle, Aintree, Warrington and Stockport.
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Deals
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Sky Medical completes £2.5m fundraising
Sky Medical has completed its £2.5m fundraising after securing £450,000 of angel investment through private investor network Envestors.
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Business
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Transport investment vital to regional growth - Osborne
Chancellor George Osborne has told Insider that improvements to transport bring better benefits to regional economies than regional development agencies and other business support initiatives. He said: “The high speed rail link has the opportunity to change the economic geography of the country. It will bring parts of the North and the Midlands close to the centre.”
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ACC reveals new arena plan
ACC Liverpool is bidding to attract a range of new events to Liverpool by launching a fresh arena layout for smaller audiences of up to 4,000.
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Biometrics company scoops counter terrorism prize
Liverpool-headquartered Human Recognition Systems (HRS) has won a Home Office for its work on a project to help counter terrorism at airports – and help them increase revenues.
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Seven up for Active Profile
Liverpool PR agency Active Profile has reported a positive start to the year by picking up seven new clients. The agency was founded by Insider 42 under 42 alumnus Anna Heyes.
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MV Commercial opens Haydock depot
Truck rental business MV Commercial has opened a new depot in Haydock to serve customers across the North West.
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Economic decline worse than first thought - ONS
The economy declined by a bigger margin during the final three months of 2010 than first expected, figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed.
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Property
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Hall Lane works near completion
Long-awaited improvements to a main arterial route in Liverpool, part of the £19m Hall Lane Strategic Gateway scheme, are nearing completion with the opening of the replacement carriageway for Hall Lane.
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Housebuilding projects on the rise - NHBC
Housebuilding levels improved during December with an 18 per cent year-on-year jump in the number of private homes developers plan to build. The figures, released by the National House-Building Council (NHBC), revealed 7,385 were built in December 2010 - up on the 7,149 total in December 2009.
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