Midlands Business News

This year RAF Cosford celebrates its 75th Anniversary and the annual Air Show aims to provide one of the greatest family orientated summer days out in the West Midlands

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An American-themed sports bar chain which was first launched in Staffordshire by a top former amateur boxer has just opened another venue to add to its growing franchise portfolio.

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Derbyshire is set fair for a Summer of Vintage as traders set up their stalls in three well known venues. Fair organisers, The Vintage Suitcase, have reported high demand for pitches at the three events in Matlock, Buxton and Bakewell. Now organisers Allison Elkes and Gemma Miller are hoping to attract large crowds to the [...]

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The CLA Game Fair has announced the launch of the Rolls-Royce Country Club – a VIP hospitality enclosure where visitors can enjoy the world’s biggest countryside show in grand style. The exclusive club will be located in an impressive two-storey structure with its own private lawn overlooking the Main Arena at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, from [...]

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People from across Birmingham are being asked to vote for their favourite films to be shown during the second annual Brindleyplace Outdoor Film Festival.

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The Pet Show, which takes place at Stoneleigh Park on 20th and 21st July, have announced that they have already sold a total of 179 exhibitor stands, making it the largest multi-pet event in the UK. The amount of exhibitors secured is doubly impressive given that the 2013 event will be the first time that [...]

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Construction of the CLA Game Fair has started at Ragley Hall – with the first batch of workers arriving to build the show on the 500-acre site in Warwickshire. As the world’s largest countryside show, the CLA Game Fair generates around £80million for the regional and wider rural economy with upwards of 144,000 visitors and [...]

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The family owners of a Midland golf club are celebrating 18 years at the helm with the conclusion of a £1 million investment programme.

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With just a few weeks remaining until the 2013 RAF Cosford Air Show, organisers confirm the complete line-up of flying displays ready to thrill the crowds on Sunday 9th June.

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A new off-road option has been opened for visitors to West Midland Safari Park and incorporated into the “Ream of the Lions” exhibit that has been launched to mark the Park’s 40th Anniversary being celebrated this year.

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West Midland Safari Park has been named the most “Coach Friendly Visitor Attraction of the Year” at the Coach Tourism Awards ceremony held at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral on 9th May 2013.

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The RAF Cosford Air Show has always prided itself on not just being the Midlands’ premier aviation event

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Spring has arrived at Trentham Monkey Forest, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, with new buds and baby Barbary macaques all coming at once.

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A partnership between the RAF Charitable Trust and the Event Mobility Charitable Trust will help increase the accessibility for disabled visitors to the RAF Cosford Air Shopw on Sunday 9th June. The Event Mobility Charitable Trust was founded in 1998 with the sole aim of providing electric scooters and manual wheelchairs for disabled, mobility impaired [...]

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Exhibitor sales are showing the CLA Game Fair is the place to be for businesses looking to benefit from a presence at the world’s largest countryside show. Organisers of the CLA Game Fair, which will take place from Friday, 19 July to Sunday, 21 July, in the grounds of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire, say bookings [...]

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The owners of a popular Midland golf and country club have completed a £1 million refurbishment of its clubhouse facilities – with the promise of future investment.

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Business is booming at a Shropshire personal training studio as people ditch New Year gym memberships to look for an alternative way to get fit.

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Cycle Live Nottingham is delighted to announce a partnership with Nottingham-based Experian, the leading global information services company, to help build on the event’s successes and raise money for the Heart of Experian Charity Fund. As a result, the three-day festival of cycling will now be called Experian Cycle Live. After a successful opening event [...]

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The inaugural Champion of Champions snooker event is to be staged at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry this year. Barry Hearn, Chairman of World Snooker and Matchroom Sport, made the announcement during the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield. A top prize of £100,000 will be available for the winner of the 16 player tournament which [...]

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Dozens of people from across the county turned out to celebrate the opening of the exclusive new spa facilities at Serenity in Shrewsbury this week.

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Birmingham’s workforce is suffering from Vacationitis – a condition affecting stressed workers who are not taking enough breaks from work

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With a fascinating selection of Jaguars on display, RAF Cosford’s 75th Anniversary Air Show is offering a big cat line-up that will be seen nowhere else this summer.

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Cadbury World has a programme choc-ful of adventure for visitors to enjoy this May.

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Leading PGA Professional Julian Mellor is to launch a new golf school in Warwick.

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LV= County Champions Warwickshire CCC have agreed a new deal with Scrivens Opticians to be the Club’s first Official Opticians Partner and sponsor the back of their white championship shirt as part of a two year package.

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Two of the Heart of England’s best loved tourist attractions are celebrating their 40th birthday in 2013.

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There are two baby camels at West Midland Safari Park that are clearly much more content now that spring seems to have finally made an appearance.

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Two members of staff from Nottingham’s top entertainment venue were given the trip of a lifetime having smashed their sales targets.

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The RAF Cosford 75th Anniversary Air Show team is excited to announce that a Chinook and an Apache helicopter from the MOD Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) will be coming to the event on Sunday 9th June.

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A beautician has opened the doors to her new treatment and therapy room at the centre of one of Telford’s growing communities.

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Birmingham based business The Bugs Group – which developed YogaBugs, the largest and most successful children’s yoga specialists – has launched two more franchise programmes,

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The Midcounties Co-operative Travel has been named the best large travel agency in Central England at a top travel industry awards ceremony.

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The RAF Cosford 75th Anniversary Air Show team is excited to announce that the last remaining airworthy B-17 Flying Fortress in Europe will be joining the packed line-up at this year’s event on Sunday 9th June.

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The opening of a spectacular new drive-through African lion exhibit at Easter 2013, marks the 40thAnniversary for West Midland Safari Park.

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Hairdressing entrepreneur Lisa Shepherd is offering a professional head start to business women on the go.

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To support their continued growth, Click Tavel has appointed Vicki Williams to head up their customer implementation team.

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Click Travel has announced the appointment of former Cisco director, Mike Stephens, in the new role of Sales Director.

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RAF Cosford’s 75th Anniversary Air Show is thrilled to announce the news that many have been waiting for, as Avro Vulcan XH558 from the Vulcan To The Sky Trust is confirmed to attend the event on Sunday 9th June.

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From monochrome to matching bags and pastel shades to floral patterns, models will be pulling on the latest fashion and strutting their stuff down The Cornerhouse catwalk at the annual charity fashion show.

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Birmingham’s Staying Cool at the Rotunda has reached the finals of Visit England’s prestigious Awards for Excellence for 2013.

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Exciting plans for this summer’s RAF Cosford 75th Anniversary Air Show are firmly on track thanks to a partnership deal with Arriva Trains Wales.

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A wellness centre in the heart of Shrewsbury is to open its doors today (April 2) after a £40,000 revamp.

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Supporters of Severn Valley Railway are promised an impressive line-up of activities at the members and shareholders weekend this month.

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Progressive independent coffee shop Six Eight Kafé took another ambitious step forward by entering two of its baristas into the national barista championships.

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An “Equestrian Sunday” will take place at this year’s CLA Game Fair at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. Express Eventing will bring a major competition to the show in an exciting development in the sport of equestrianism. The eventing contest – set to feature some of the sport’s leading stars – will be staged on Sunday, [...]

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Realm of the Lions – the latest animal exhibit to be incorporated into the four-mile self-drive safari at West Midland Safari Park – is now open.

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Staff at West Midland Safari Park love nothing more than mixing business with pleasure and the perfect opportunity came this week in the form of Comic Relief.

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A £140,000 refurbishment which aims to enhance visitors’ experience when travelling to the region was unveiled at a VIP reception at De Vere Village Urban Resort Coventry on Thursday (28 Feb).

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Fans of all things Irish will be up for the craic as a popular Cannock venue gets set to host one of the biggest St Patrick’s Weekend of celebrations in the Midlands.

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The Belfry, the iconic hotel, golf and leisure resort, has secured a finance package from the Birmingham office of Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking to fund its planned £25million refurbishment project.

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