Taylor Wimpey has reported business as normal in the wake of the Brexit vote. The housing giant has been carefully analysing trading since the referendum decision on June 24. Chief Executive Peter Redfern said: “One month on from the EU Referendum, current trading remains in line with normal seasonal patterns. [...]

BP’s latest earnings report shows the company has a long road ahead of it as profits dropped in the second quarter but resolved a great portion of its outstanding claims from the Deepwater Horizon accident. According to its latest report for the second quarter released Tuesday, the UK-based oil company [...]

Vodafone has posted their latest results to 30th June 2016 (Q2 calendar), which shows that they added +28,000 new fixed line broadband customers in the quarter to total 137,000 (up from the +20k added in Q1 and +14k in Q4 2015) and improved their UK outdoor 4G cover to 95% [...]

Health giant RB has appointed M+W Group as the main contractor to design and build its £105m R&D Centre for Scientific Excellence in Hull. The centre will house a new industry-leading Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) healthcare development facility. It will feature a number of product development capabilities including analytical, formulation [...]

The £34m Digital Durham project in North East England, which includes Gateshead, the Tees Valley and Sunderland, claims to have completed its original goal of ensuring that 98% of local premises are covered by a “fibre broadband” network (96% able to receive “superfast” speeds of 24Mbps+). The first contract with [...]

Carillion has decided to go back to the drawing board and demolish a faulty Middlesbrough school built by Mowlem under a PFI deal 10 years ago. The firm started remedial works on South Bank Primary school more than a year ago after serious cracks appeared in the walls. But it halted [...]

I was delighted to receive the Queens Award for Enterprise for International Trade from the the Hon. Mrs. Susan Cunliffe-Lister, the Queens Official Representative and also HM Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire last week on behalf of Bureau UK Recruitment very proud day for everyone.  

KCOM has announced that Hedon and Preston are the next locations on its rollout plan for superfast fibre broadband. It has also released details of more than 50 streets in the Bricknell Avenue of Hull where the service will be available to order later this month. KCOM’s Lightstream service will [...]

Laing O’Rourke has been selected as preferred bidder for the major overhaul and expansion of Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2 building. The firm is understood to have been told last week that it had beaten Chinese-led rival consortium Beijing Construction and Engineering Group, John Sisk & Son and Willmott Dixon. According to [...]

Urban fibre optic (FTTP/H) network builder Cityfibre has today announced a strategic partnership with rural ISP Gigaclear. The deal is designed to “dramatically accelerate” the roll-out of next generation “ultrafast” Internet access to hundreds of thousands of rural homes and businesses across the UK. Most of our readers are probably [...]

Transaction was approved by the European Commission last month. Boskalis has completed the acquisition of the offshore-related activities of VolkerWessels, including VBMS, Stemat and Volker Stevin International. The transaction will strengthen Boskalis’ position in the growing offshore wind market, the Dutch company said. The deal covers the maritime and offshore [...]

Student homes specialist Watkin Jones has won planning consent to build a £100m tower for the University of London in Stratford, East London. The 33 floor Duncan House scheme on Stratford High Street will rise to over 100m and joins a cluster of tall buildings in the area. Mark Watkin Jones, Chief Executive [...]