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Go-ahead for Tesco extension

APPROVAL: Residents look at the plans for the extension to Barton's Tesco store with Claire Whittaker, planning assistant for DPP, when they went on show at the supermarket.

Friday, March 12, 2010

TESCO has been given permission to extend one of its Scunthorpe area stores by North Lincolnshire Council's planning committee.

The committee accepted the proposals for the extension, which also include a petrol station and demolition of an existing warehouse,...

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East Hull's ADM Cocoa facing closure

DARK DAYS AHEAD: ADM Cocoa in Cleveland Street, east Hull.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Employees at an east Hull cocoa processing plant face an uncertain future after its owners announced the site could close in July. Some 86 staff...

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Jobs under threat at east Hull cocoa firm

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The future of an east Hull cocoa factory is hanging in the balance after the owners announced proposals to close the facility in the summer. ADM...

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New 'swap shop' brings high street hope

COMING SOON: Scunthorpe town centre shopper Mark Harnwell looks at the poster in the window of the soon-to-be opened CeX shop on Cole Street.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

A NEW entertainment exchange store is set to open in Scunthorpe town centre. A branch of the CeX (Complete Entertainment Exchange) secondhand company...

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Weir owners plan new city centre bar

CAUSING A STIR: Levi Goulbourne, left, and Alfie Goulbourne make cocktails at the new Lick bar at the City Exchange in Alfred Gelder Street.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

A new bar is being opened in Hull aimed at the growing number of young professionals working in the city centre.

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Offices could create more than 100 jobs

driving forward: Plans for a new £5.5m office development in Baker street, Hull, have been given the go-ahead by city planners. Picture: Kate Woolhouse

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Plans for a new £5.5m office development in the city centre have been given the go-ahead. Paul Dixon, the developer behind the Baker Street...

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Link-up to create 'one safe source' for lifting needs

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

A HULL-BASED lifting firm has acquired a company specialising in wire rope and chain products. O'Pray & Sons Ltd has been bought by Pearson and...

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Hull proves to be a sweet solution for chocolate bosses

block vote: Sheila Wright, left, and Chris Church, at the Hull One World Shop, Waltham Street, Hull, which stocks Divine chocolate. Picture: Kate Woolhouse

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

FAIRTRADE company Divine Chocolate has cut its carbon emissions by relocating its warehouse to Hull. Following a review of its "chocolate miles",...

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Two-year respite, but parking charges still looming on horizon

UNIMPRESSED: Martin Cuthbert, East Yorkshire branch chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, at Beverley's Saturday market. Pictures: Peter Harbour

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

THERE was an initial sigh of relief when the long-awaited recommendations of the East Riding Council's car parking review panel were published...

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Hull fashionistas will show city's got style

LOOKING GOOD: Florence Ravelle, left, of Kimono My House, and Bob Beasley, of Beasleys, with models Olivia O'Connor, Fionnuala Ravelle and Erika Mann. Picture: Kate Woolhouse

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

HULL is to host its first Fashion Week. The city centre Business Improvement District (Bid) is teaming up with shops across the city for a three-day...

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