I am absolutely delighted that the launch event of this year’s Liverpool Business Week will take place at Goodison Park with three very eminent speakers presenting their thoughts on the future of the beautiful game. On the afternoon of June 22nd the Chief Executive of Everton Football Club Ro... [More]

The second annual Lancashire Business Week has proved a great success for Downtown Preston. We have attracted almost three hundred people to the various seminars and networking events that we hosted; organised presentations from some of the leading professionals and decision makers from across the r... [More]

When I set up Downtown Liverpool in Business (DLIB) in 2004, I was told by a senior official at Liverpool City Council that it wouldn’t last five minutes. Well, five years later, and not only is DLIB still around, but it has established itself as one of the leading private sector lobbying orga... [More]

The April 2009 budget announcement was never going to set the world to rights. In the midst of a depression, the Chancellor has his work cut out for him. Record levels of borrowing, the pound the weakest many of us can remember, unemployment rising, the Conservatives ready to step into Government &n... [More]

A series of results over the past fortnight means that the race for the Premiership has become a three-horse race, rather than the one-horse stroll it had threatened to become at the end of February. This means that only sixteen of the twenty clubs in the league now have nothing to play for – ... [More]