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A SELF-confessed latecomer to the aviation business has celebrated 50 years in the industry.

DORSET and Hampshire-based planning consultants Pure Town Planning are warning developers and landowners about a new charge on development set to be brought in.

AN award-winning project to boost business in Bournemouth has culminated in a final ceremony.

LLPR joins business sponsors of Enterprise and Skills Award celebrations LIZ Lean PR has joined a team of business sponsors for this year’s Enterprise and Skills Award celebrations.

THE Wessex branch of the Federation of Small Businesses says high inflation, rising utility bills and reduced consumer spending have caused small business confidence to fall to the lowest level in two years.

THE Green Room is playing cupid by offering guests who pop the question over Valentine’s dinner a gift towards their wedding package booked at the Green House Hotel.

PR specialist Kevin Briscoe has been elected chairman of the Wessex branch of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

A NEW organisation is being launched in April with the aim of boosting jobs and attracting new industry across Dorset.

A DORSET charity supporting people with autism has announced a new senior appointment.

TOURISM workers are gearing up for the biggest-ever summer season in Weymouth and Portland.

I have always been interested in research and market data but I had to smile at a piece of work completed by Keele University’s school of psychology.

THE UK National debt is set to rise above £2 trillion, a figure that is higher than Britain's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - meaning the nation's wealth would be outstripped by its debt. At the end of March 2008, general government debt was £614.4 billion, equivalent to 43.2 per cent of GDP. At the end of January 2009, general government debt was £703.4 billion, equivalent to 47.8 per cent of GDP.

Last Friday I was one of the speakers at the Chamber of Commerce seminar Swim, Don’t Sink!

IT has been said, "A Butterfly flapping its wings in Peru can start a change in the weather that leads to a typhoon in China." Fear is infectious, spreads quickly and can turn out to be overwhelming and like the flapping of butterfly’s wings affecting the weather, the current economic fear started somewhere.

I have real concern about the rising doom-and-gloom which has been voiced by many, including the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) following a recent economic survey.

HINDSIGHT is a wonderful thing. As recession grips, “bust” (a state of the economy allegedly banned to history) seems to be following the “boom” (another state of the economy also banned to history).

With the economy under strain, many small and medium-sized businesses in Dorset are beginning to find conditions tough.

In his pre-Budget report Alistair Darling delivered economic downgrades bigger than any since the 1980s - the row of glum faces on the Government benches as he predicted misery for large swathes of the population said it all.

THE British Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Survey (Q3 2008) received over 5,000 responses from businesses of all sizes and sectors and virtually all the key national balances have worsened, and many are in negative territory for the second quarter in a row.

Prosperity based on borrowing is how, over the last decade, this Government have fuelled the economy. This Government and the Country has been on a borrowing binge on the back of property prices and the belief that somehow the property boom would go on and on.