Wirral PR firm Artemis Media & Public Affairs has been appointed to help manage the media in the North West for the UK’s leading business organisation the Confederation of British Industry (CBI

Wirral based LT Print Group has recorded a 10 per cent sales increase on 2009, despite the industry going through its “worst period in living memory”.

Leading Wirral recruitment agency Scantec has appointed three new members of staff to the business.

If you like to look your best whilst enjoying a pint of real ale, now is your chance to combine the two.

A major green energy conference offering advice on the latest renewable technology is inviting businesses and organisations on the Wirral to its latest forum.

Leading renewable energy products manufacturer Stiebel Eltron has completed a raft of installation contracts across the UK.

DFDS Seaways is now one of Europe’s largest ferry companies.

Leading North West printer LT Print Group is strengthening its sales team with the appointment of 56-year-old printing industry specialist Lawrie Heal.

Birkenhead engineering firm Northwest Precision Forms has been bought from its administrators, saving 76 jobs.

Two North West companies Cammell Laird and Nuvia are announcing an ambitious partnership agreement which aims to ‘catapult’ them to the forefront of the UK’s multi billion pound new nuclear build programme.

A national IT support company is set to help the SMEs of Wirral by opening a new branch this week.

The award-winning Hankinson Painting Group has unveiled its new Training Academy in Bromborough, Wirral.

Construction work is beginning this week on the North West’s first training centre offering recognised qualifications in installing green energy microgeneration technologies.

The Wirral Food and Drink Festival has grown into one of the most successful in the country, with last year’s event attracting almost 30,000 visitors.

A special ceremony took place along the newly re-vamped New Brighton waterfront on Wednesday to mark the official handover of Neptune Developments completed public realm works.

The award winning Hankinson Painting Group has strengthened its rail expertise with the appointment of an operations manager for its growing rail division.

Intervention sees company turnover for Nutexa Frictions Ltd increase by 12%.

David Furlong, Managing Director and proprietor of Mole Engineering based in Arrowe Park has won the 'Consumer Benefit Award' at the Inaugural Energy Innovation Awards for his innovative CombiSave.

Wallasey-based Bridging Finance Solutions has been appointed as preferred lending partner to Auction House, a national franchise of property auction houses.

Leading Wirral technical and engineering recruitment firm Scantec Personnel has secured a preferred supplier agreement with Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Limited (BBES).

A new Birkenhead business, Discovery Charters has secured substantial grant funding from the Mersey Rural Leader programme to develop chartered boat trips in the Mersey, Dee and Liverpool Bay.

Commercial Property Developers Redsun Developments Ltd has just completed a major industrial project in Wirral and has already secured a hi-tech Wirral based company as anchor tenant for the scheme.

Growing Wirral PR firm Artemis Media is celebrating its third year of trading with a hat trick of client wins.

Birkenhead town centre is set to receive a massive boost with the announcement that Wirral Council and Asda have agreed terms for a new retail food store to be built in the town.

Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF) has appointed a new chairman to its board.

ICE has just been listed in the UK’s Top 25 Public Sector PR Consultancy League Tables 2010, published by leading industry publication PR Week.

Wirral business growth accountants Woods Squared is expanding with the appointment of a new trainee.

Wirral Waters, the largest planning application in the UK was given the go ahead by Wirral Council’s planning committee on Tuesday night. (3rd August)

Leader of Liverpool Council, Cllr Joe Anderson today met with Cllr Jeff Green, Leader of Wirral Council along with Peel Holdings’ Development Director Lindsey Ashworth to give the £4.5billion Wirral Waters project Liverpool’s seal of approval.

Shipbuilding officially returned to Birkenhead on Monday after 17 years when the first steel was cut at Cammell Laird for the new aircraft super carrier Queen Elizabeth.

Members of the public will be given their final chance to hear and see the plans for Wirral Waters on Thursday 29th July 2010 from 7 pm at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead.

Birkenhead based Au Logistics are now able through their group marketing arm to receive and process cash donations directly on behalf of charities.

Wirral-based specialist ground remediation, demolition and recycling contractor D Morgan has paid an undisclosed sum to buy the former TDG distribution depot in Alltami, Flintshire.

The UK’s largest electrical varnish and resin manufacturer is encouraging ‘bottom up innovation’ after signing up to a ‘pay as you go’ organisational development service from the industry’s national skills body.

The North West Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS-NW) has been appointed the national lead to coordinate business involvement with nuclear opportunities.

Local entrepreneur and founder of CPL Training has been named Businessman of the Year at the annual Wirral Investment Network (WiN) awards.

Thornton Hall Hotel’s award-winning restaurant The Lawns is celebrating after being given the highest score in The Mersey Partnership’s Taste Liverpool scheme.

The North West “big shed” industrial market recorded its highest ever second quarter take-up figures, according to consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton.

Wirral’s teenagers got the chance to vote for their favourite bosses at a glittering awards ceremony at The Floral Pavilion in New Brighton on Tuesday.

Foreign owned firms created or safeguarded 5,000 jobs in the Liverpool city region during 2009/10.

Merseyside based green energy firm Stiebel Eltron is celebrating a terrific night of achievement at the Wirral Investment Network Business Awards.

Wirral’s business community has been saluting the success of companies that are strengthening the borough’s economy.

DeskCentre, one of the leading suppliers of Office, Educational and Leisure furniture in the UK held the official opening of its new premises at Wirral International Business Park (WIBP) in Bromborough on Thursday 8th July.

Wirral based Scantec Personnel, one of the UK’s leading recruitment agencies, is celebrating 20 years of trading this month.

Schools from across the Borough have been rewarded by local businesses for their international awareness and appreciation of different cultures and customs.

Wirral’s Thornton Hall Hotel has completed the £160,000 refurbishment of its The Lawns restaurant.

Swiftly following a successful IIP re accreditation and a positive Ofsted Focus visit early on in the year MECNW have been awarded the ‘Matrix Quality Standard for Information Advice and Guidance’.

Wirral creative production house Mills Media has won three awards for its exhibition and design service for Cheshire East Council.

A week after Royal Liverpool Golf Club hosted the premier amateur stroke play event in the world keen golfers from across the region can now enter to play the famous course as part of the inaugural Wirral Golf Classic.

A Wirral company has scooped the top honour at an awards ceremony highlighting green energy initiatives.

A Wirral industrial estate is becoming a major sporting centre and could expand further following another planning application to Wirral Council.

The Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards 2010 have been launched, with £110,000 in cash prizes and services up for grabs.

Leading Wirral accountant Woods Squared has secured four new client wins and five contract renewals.

A Birkenhead cotton company has returned to the black after turning a £13m loss, in 2008, into a £180,000 profit in 2009.

Pharmapac, the Birkenhead packaging specialist to the pharmaceutical industry, has received the final instalment of a £215,000 Selective Finance for Investment grant from the Northwest Regional Development Agency.

A leading North West creative production house is celebrating a successful first half of the year with a 32pc increase in contract wins compared to the same period last year.

In front of an audience of over 400 guests at the spectacular Liverpool Anglican Cathedral The Contact Company were awarded the NWDA Medium Business of the Year 2010.

Are you a Wirral based business who would like to compete for Council contracts but aren’t sure where to start?

A leading Wirral based training provider is urging businesses in the hospitality sector to seek expert advice on plugging the skills gaps across the industry.

Change agency ICE has completed another step in its growth and development strategy with the unveiling of its new look website.

Wirral’s tourism offer was further boosted at this year’s prestigious Mersey Partnership tourism awards as two local businesses were declared as the best in their category.

Britain’s much-loved tea brand Typhoo has today announced their brand new Typhoo Sports for All campaign ambassador.

Small firms in need of finance are being targeted by a new service launched by Wirral accountants Woods Squared.

Cammell Laird helped fly the flag for Merseyside business this week at the National Apprenticeship Service Awards North West finals at Manchester’s Midland Hotel.

In an ever changing mobile and digital business environment, there is a bewildering array of marketing measures available to modern day firms. But when it comes to meeting customers and prospects face to face, nothing can match a business exhibition.

Leading training provider, CPL Training, has been presented with the Judges Choice Award at the prestigious Liverpool Daily Post Awards.

Envirolink Northwest is offering free technical and business support for North West businesses looking to procure regional recycling and waste services.

Leading property consultants, Smith & Sons, has let over 4,000 square feet of Grade A office accommodation at Riverside Park in Brombrough.

The British obsession with DIY has persuaded Spanish timber giant Finsa to open a ‘to the public’ trade counter in Wirral.

Typhoo announced their sponsorship of the fifth annual Wirral Food and Drink Festival with an Alice In Wonderland inspired tea party this week.

Leading Wirral creative production house Mills Media has celebrated completing an extensive event management and production service for a major five day maritime Congress.

The North West Development Agency is offering small and medium sized companies the chance to access £2m of grant funding to develop and demonstrate innovative technologies that reduce carbon emissions.

As part of European SME Week, Invest Wirral has arranged a series of face-to-face sessions for companies to meet a specialist business advisor to discuss training requirements.

Established wedding and portrait photographers, John McCulloch and his step-son, Adam Kenrick, of ‘Studio 900’, hosted a launch event on Thursday 13th May, to mark the opening of their second photography studio at Brimstage Hall.

A £24m funding deal has been signed between Neptune Wirral Limited and HSBC Corporate Banking North West to help complete work on the second phase of the New Brighton redevelopment.

Marketing and communications specialists ICE have recruited a leading specialist in smoking cessation, as part of a drive to market and support stop smoking services and campaigns nationally.

Leading North West training provider Scientiam has continued its ambitious growth strategy by opening a new office in Warrington.

Wirral based Hankinson Painting Group are delighted to announce that they have secured two “Very Highly Commended” Awards in the 2010 Painting Decorating Association Premier Trophy Awards.

Entries are now being taken for Wirral’s inaugural Golf Classic to be staged at some of the finest coastal courses in England this September.

The freshest “asparagus nouveau” has been rushed from farm to forks around the North West region, to Michelin-starred restaurants and to the iconic Big One rollercoaster at Pleasure Beach Resort, Blackpool.

Leading training provider, CPL Training, has launched its new ELearning division following a £500,000, two-year research and development plan.

LEADING Wirral renewable energy products provider Stiebel Eltron has completed four installations at properties across the UK – with the latest project at celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s new Liverpool restaurant just weeks away from completion.

Hankinson Painting Group has scooped a prestigious international award for the ninth consecutive year.

A recycling centre which provides training and support for the long-term unemployed in Wirral is running desperately short of the one product it needs to recycle - waste corrugated cardboard.

Merseyside’s first training centre dedicated to green energy microgeneration technologies is to be opened later this year in Wirral.

An online exchange for building materials has won the third monthly prize in this year’s Merseyside Innovation Awards.

Wirral conveyor manufacturer Sovex has become the first business in the region to secure a new venture capital loan.

Small businesses in Wirral are being encouraged to shop around for their utility bills to get the best energy deals.

A leading Wirral-based training provider is encouraging businesses to take advantage of a new scheme which gives workers the right to take time off for study or training.

Leading Birkenhead recruitment agency Scantec has expanded its Electrical, Control and Instrumentation division with the appointment of Jade Li.

Hankinson Painting Group have demonstrated our commitment to the Construction Skills Scheme with our Platinum Standard Award from the Scheme for having over 90% of our workforce holding CSCS Cards.

Leading Wirral recruitment agency Scantec is further expanding its FMCG Food Manufacturing team with the appointment of Sean Carter, who is joining the department as Principal Recruitment Consultant.

Creative production house Mills Media has launched a new design and print service for businesses on a budget.

SAFC Hitech® today announced plans to invest $2m (approximately £1.2m) in expanding production of trimethylgallium (TMG) at its Bromborough, Wirral, UK manufacturing plant.

The UK's only crayon and chalk manufacturer has moved its head office to Wirral.

A business that has developed a way of testing carbon monoxide sensors has scooped the second monthly prize in the 2010 Merseyside Innovation Awards.

Resurgent Wirral shipyard Cammell Laird has placed an order worth £1.1m with the Warrington office of Konecranes to upgrade equipment in its massive shipbuilding hall.

Educationally led event management company Destination Learning, based in Bromborough, is the latest business to sign up to sponsor Liverpool’s pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

A leading Wirral based green energy product manufacturer is predicting a massive surge in interest from commercial and private property owners to go green following the announcement of two new incentive packages from Government.

Wirral Council has committed to investing £12million in its IT infrastructure so as to provide super-fast Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband to businesses throughout the Borough.

A programme to unlock the potential of Merseyside’s untapped rural economy is now seeking project proposals to benefit from multi-million pound funding opportunities.

Leading Wirral based technical and engineering recruitment firm, Scantec has formed an alliance with two recruitment firms to supply personnel to the industrial services giant Hertel.

North West creative production house Mills Media has completed producing a series of films for social housing provider Wirral Partnership Homes (WPH).

Wirral firm Keeko Kids Limited have won contracts with 2 blue-chip companies to add to their already impressive list of customers.

With the news that the world's best golfers are heading to Wirral in the next few years, now is your chance to play the Borough's finest links courses.

Wirral Council is encouraging more of its rural businesses to apply to the Mersey Rural Leader programme (MRL) after Gregory’s Farm was given the go ahead to create an interactive learning centre at Brimstage.

Wirral is celebrating its one hundredth starter on the Future Jobs Fund (FJF) programme as the Council continues its mission to reduce worklessness in the Borough.

Award-winning marketing and communications company ICE has appointed Gemma Newman as its new Director of Strategic Communications.

Wallasey caterer Pickled Walnut has secured contracts to supply the Blackpool Tower, Hilltop Country House in Prestbury and Peover Golf Club.

The Wirral Business Forum welcomed its 1000th member in February as the free to join online network continues to go from strength to strength.

Wirral based business growth accountants Woods Squared is announcing nine new client wins and five client renewals over the last quarter.

Calling all Wirral businesses….entries are now open for Wirral’s premier business awards.

Peel has let 17,000 sq ft of space on a 10 year lease at Britannia House, Wallasey to rainwater harvesting specialist Combined Harvesters.

A leading Birkenhead based accountancy firm is urging entrepreneurs not to be disheartened by new findings showing that bank lending is seizing up causing one in five businesses to run on credit cards.

The R&A has announced that Royal Liverpool Golf Club will host The Open Championship in 2014. It will be the 12th time the Hoylake links has hosted golf’s oldest Major.

A Wirral recruitment agency has been reaping the rewards of training its staff during the recession, after hitting its £5 million annual sales target.

A leading North West creative production house has been commissioned by The Home and Communities Agency’s HCA) to supply photography for its Kickstart Housing Delivery Programme.

Plans for the redevelopment of New Brighton have been boosted by a £3.9 million investment from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).

A leading work based learning provider has staged an awards evening to recognise successful young apprentices and their employers from across Wirral.

The R&A has announced that the hosting of the 2013 Boys Amateur Championship will be shared between Royal Liverpool Golf Club and Wallasey Golf Club.

Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake in Wirral is today announced as the host venue for the 2012 Ricoh Women’s British Open, the first time that the Club has hosted this prestigious Championship.

Wirral based global renewable energy ‘heat pump’ manufacturer Stiebel Eltron has completed four high profile installations worth more than £300,000.

It’s official! The recession is over, but many local businesses are still feeling the hangover.

A shipping firm in Wirral has secured a £44m contract to build part of one of the biggest and most powerful warships in the UK.

To celebrate all the successes and achievements of Wirral’s food and tourism industry, 2010 has been declared Wirral’s Year of Food; a year long celebration of fantastic food in Wirral.

Wirral Council has announced funding for a further 50 apprenticeship places in local businesses for a period of 18 months.

Wirral Council’s Trading Standards took the opportunity last week to reward the Borough’s best traders after many of them were rated as excellent by their customers.

+++Stop Press+++ Funding for a further 50 apprenticeship places has been approved by Wirral Council's Cabinet.

Multi-award winning David Milligan-Croft has been appointed as the new Creative Director at ICE.

Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders has been awarded a major contract

Office supplier Heatons, based in Birkenhead, has doubled the turnover of its printing division, from £180,000 in May 2009 to £360,000 by mid December.

A leading work based learning provider says the Government’s announcement that it is to offer £2500 ‘golden hellos’ to small firms to take on an apprentice can be reinforced with a programme of specialist support.

Wirral South MP Ben Chapman has been to visit local environmental business, BuilderScrap. He met with Directors Les Owens and John Carroll, who also own and run Wirral based Trustland Construction.

A Birkenhead brewery has rolled out a new range of cask ales as it prepares to expand business across the North-West.

Peel has today submitted the largest planning application in the UK for the East Float part of its scheme known as Wirral Waters which is an investment in Wirral of over £4.5 Billion.

Marketing and communications specialists ICE are celebrating their tenth birthday. It’s a double celebration for the award-winning company, which is also welcoming its 50th member of staff to its ever-growing team.

With more than 90% of businesses in the area earning a Tidy Business Award, Oxton has proudly laid claim to the title of Britain’s first ‘Tidy Business Village’.

Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird has recruited 18 new Apprentices.

Elaine Owen of Wirral-based Designated Associates has won the Business Personality of the Year award at the Asian Business Federation’s 2009 Tiger Awards.

North West based Scantec Personnel, one of the UK’s leading recruitment agencies, have implemented a major reorganisation of its management team as it embarks on its 21st year of trading.

Tulip Ltd, the UK’s leading producer of pork and bacon products has announced the creation of 270 new jobs at its production facility in Wirral.

Following on from its double success at the Green Apple Environmental Awards, Birkenhead based Hankinson Painting Group has gone on to be a National Green Hero.

Leading Wirral work based learning provider Scientiam is continuing its ambitious growth strategy by opening two new offices in Liverpool city centre and Runcorn this month.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, the US headquartered biopharmaceutical giant, is investing $6million dollars (£3.5million pounds) in its research and development laboratory in Wirral.

Viridian Systems, the Birkenhead landfill service provider, is leading operations in South America with the support of the Northwest Regional Development Agency and UK Trade & Investment.

Wirral recruitment agency Scantec Personnel is launching a new food manufacturing department.

A Wirral baby boutique has secured a potentially-lucrative distribution deal after its core product was selected for Myleene Klass’s Mothercare range.

A Wirral based renewable energy giant is launching an ambitious new package of benefits for installers across the region as it seeks to ramp up recruitment from the sector.

The quality of service and professionalism of Wirral’s tourism industry was celebrated last night at Wirral’s 9th annual Tourism Awards for Excellence.

Birkenhead based LinkDirect has secured a three-year multi-million pound contract with BT to deliver 42m phone books.

An engineering student from Wirral Metropolitan College (WMC) has been named Most Improved Apprentice of the Year in an award scheme sponsored by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE).

Wirral Council will shortly be introducing an electronic system for tendering and quotations. It is known as The Chest and will enable existing and potential suppliers to view forthcoming contract opportunities for Wirral and other Councils in the North West.

Wirral is to host an international golf championship next year with 300 of the top amateur players trying out the borough’s best courses.

Wirral is the only area in the north of England to move through to the next stage of developing a new university.

Wirral Council’s innovative new programme The Wirral Apprentice was officially launched on the steps of Wallasey Town Hall on Thursday with the 100 apprentices and their employers together to celebrate.

Wirral’s Mayor Cllr Andrew Hodson officially opened a new centre for health and wellbeing for young adults with mental health issues in Hamilton Square, Birkenhead today.

Wirral Council has today announced plans to redevelop the coastline between Rock Ferry and Eastham including the Royal Mersey Yacht Club.

Wirral’s Mayor, Cllr Andrew Hodson played host to the cream of Wirral’s business community on Tuesday night with a reception in the Mayor’s Parlour at Wallasey Town Hall.

Residents and businesses stand to benefit from a long-term plan for sustainable economic growth as the second and final phase of the Liverpool City Region Multi Area Agreement (MAA) is signed today, 15 September, 2009 at Tate Liverpool.

A Wirral firm which makes children’s play areas and colouring products has achieved global supplier status with McDonald’s.

Wirral has triumphed in this year’s Which Good Food Guide 2010, published this week.

Having received final approval for their plans for New Brighton Phase 2, Neptune Developments plan to complete the scheme in 2011.

Travelodge, the UK’s fastest growing hotel chain, has exchanged contracts on a new 66 bed hotel in New Brighton, Wirral.

Footballing legend Sir Geoff Hurst kicked off Typhoo's Sports for All project last week.

Wirral Council has approved Peel’s Northbank East proposal that will see some £200m investment and create around 1,000 jobs, in construction and proposed office and retail uses.

A new training programme aimed at developing the entrepreneurial skills of unemployed and workless adults in Wirral has been launched by the Learning and Skills Council Greater Merseyside (LSC).

Birkenhead employer Forum Housing Association is set to benefit from the recent launch of the Government’s ‘Backing Young Britain’ campaign, which will create thousands of job opportunities for young people, through the Future Jobs Fund initiative.

Hillbark Hotel in Wirral has been awarded the prestigious Gold Award for its quality offer and customer service by Visit Britain.

Birkenhead’s Cammell Laird Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders is celebrating another awards triumph after being named ‘Business of the Year’, at the Wirral Investment Network (WiN) Business Awards.

Wirral’s business community was out in force on Friday night to celebrate their achievements at a glittering ceremony for the Wirral Investment Network Business Awards.

MD Engineering apprentice Adrian Wooder, 18, is celebrating after being crowned Wirral Met College’s ‘Student of the Year’.

Wirral specialist manufacturer Heap & Partners will move its headquarters after securing £500,000 of bank funding.

Many people believe that ‘everyone has a book in them’ and Birkenhead Press have been helping budding authors to realise that dream for almost 50 years.

Schools from across the Borough have been rewarded by local businesses for their international awareness and appreciation of different cultures and customs.

Wirral Council has awarded Industrial Insulation and Process Heating specialists Nevron Insulation £35,000 from its ‘Think Big’ Investment Fund.

Several Wirral businesses are celebrating after winning big at the Liverpool Daily Post Regional Business Awards last night.

Wirral Council has announced an innovative new programme which aims to create 100 new jobs for people in the borough - as well as giving the local economy a timely boost.

Wirral Council has committed almost £1million to help residents from disadvantaged backgrounds access job and training opportunities in the construction industry.

Roses tea rooms in Heswall have been awarded the prestigious Tea Guild Award of Excellence 2009.

Neptune Developments have submitted a detailed planning application for the second phase of their £60m regeneration scheme at New Brighton.

After record entries for The Mersey Partnership’s Annual Tourism Awards 2009, Liverpool City Region’s official Tourist Board has announced the shortlist for the final round of judging.

Wirral Council is supporting businesses during European SME Week by arranging a series of free face-to-face meetings with business advice organisations at Egerton House, Birkenhead.

Up to 400 jobs could be created at Merseyside’s Cammell Laird shipyard over the next three years.

Wirral painting contractor Roy Hankinson Limited have scooped a prestigious international award from one of the world’s leading health and safety training, advisory and audit bodies for the eighth consecutive year.

Mersey View Ltd is celebrating the successful launch of its second East Float Dock apartment as demand in the serviced apartment market stays strong. Their latest apartment is a duplex penthouse with private roof top terrace and full landscape views of Liverpool.

Businesses from across the borough have benefited this week from a ‘boost your business’ event at the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton.

Wirral Council and partners are holding a free two day conference to give Wirral businesses the latest information and advice on ‘beating the credit crunch’.

Wirral based green energy product manufacturer Stiebel Eltron is announcing the launch of an innovative new range of products following its most successful trading year.

Birkenhead’s Cammell Laird shipyard has been named joint preferred bidder for a £150m contract to build flight decks for the UK’s next generation of aircraft carriers.

Wirral International Business Park welcomed its latest professional tenant bennettbrooks this week with a champagne reception and official opening performed by Wirral’s Mayor Cllr Adrian Jones at Gateway House, Bromborough.

It was ‘standing room only’ when the £4.5bn Wirral Waters scheme was presented to local business leaders at a recent Wirral Business Park Forum meeting.

Speaking candidly about the current economic crisis, Angela Eagle, MP for Wallasey and Exchequer Secretary to The Treasury, faced local business leaders at a recent meeting of the Wirral Business Park Forum.

Peel have submitted a planning application for the first major mixed use development masterplan/quarter, that forms part of their ambitious £4.5 billion Wirral Waters scheme.

Wirral’s businesses have been urged to take advantage of a number of financial support packages that are available as the credit crunch continues to bite.

Fraiche in Oxton Village, Wirral, owned by Marc Wilkinson, is the first in the region to gain the prestigious star.

Hundreds of senior teachers and school governors were asked to help Wirral Council deliver its investment strategy for the Borough at a high profile education conference last week.

Long standing political rivalries were declared dead as Gordon Brown officially created the Liverpool "city-region” at a Downing Street ceremony on Monday.

Resurgent Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird has completed a massive £18m refit of the largest ship in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the RFA Fort George.

The Roy Hankinson Group is delighted to have won for the second time in ten years the GM Contractor of the Year for work at Ellesmere Port Vauxhall Motors Plant.

Defence secretary John Hutton visited historic Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird last week to hear how its fortunes have been transformed.

One of the most illustrious names in British industry, Cammell Laird shipyard, made a spectacular return to trading on Monday 17th November.

CSM, the world's leading bakery supplier officially opened its Innovation Centre for Frozen and Bakery Products in Bromborough, Wirral.

An Anglo-Italian alliance has been formed to pursue a major UK naval auxiliary shipbuilding contract.

The BBC’s Breakfast Show was in Wirral this morning to highlight how businesses are beating the credit crunch.

The Leader of Wirral Council, Cllr. Steve Foulkes has been invited to deliver a key speech to a prestigious international conference in Suzhou next month.

The Ministry of Defence has placed contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds with the former Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead for the long-term maintenance of several navy support ships.

Wirral’s business community came together this week to celebrate the Borough’s first ever WiN business awards at a glittering ceremony held on the grounds of Birkenhead school.

The quality of life in Wirral has helped place Heswall at the top of a TV listing of the best places to live on the British coastline.

German renewable energy giant Stiebel Eltron has opened its new UK base at Wirral International Business Park, Bromborough.

Peel Holdings has received planning permission for the initial phase of its £4.5bn blueprint to regenerate the Birkenhead docklands.

Wirral Council is celebrating after winning an award for its ‘Think Big Think Wirral’ inward investment marketing campaign at a prestigious national awards ceremony.

Ambitious plans to build a multimillion pound golf resort in West Wirral have met with “significant interest” from international investors at a major conference for property developers.

Wirral's re-branded business newsletter 'Big Horizons' has been launched.

After recently leading a delegation of MPs to China in his capacity as Chairman of the China Parliamentary Group, where he met senior Chinese leaders, Ben Chapman MP has secured a visit from the People Republic of China’s Ambassador to the UK.