A South Cave firm has received a business boost from retail entrepreneur Theo Paphitis. Last week, Kelly Derbyshire, owner of Nudge Cards, tweeted Theo about her business during ‘Small Business Sunday’ and was one of six weekly winners to gain a retweet by Theo to his 500,000 Twitter followers. The weekly initiative set up by the former BBC Dragon's Den star in 2010 now has more than 2,200 #SBS...

An accessibility expert based in East Yorkshire is urging businesses to remember their disabled customers when drawing up their new year resolutions. Ian Streets, managing director of About Access, has set out six resolutions that can help business owners and operators build their customer base by making products and services more accessible. He has also drawn up a seventh option – urging...

The 107,000 sq ft, three-storey operational support building is proposed to be developed at Wykeland’s flagship Melton West business park, west of Hull. It will consolidate an existing centre for Humberside Police’s specialist teams and support staff, known as Melton 1, which opened at the business park in 2014. The new building, Melton 2, will be sited next to the existing facility and provide...

Hull’s school that means business has staged a unique event to give its students the edge in claiming apprenticeships with the city’s leading employers. About 260 students from Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC) attended the school’s first Apprenticeships Expo, aimed at informing them about sought-after training opportunities with the school’s employer partners. The Apprenticeships...