Osborne to go for growth with gas announcement in statement tomorrow

It is being widely reported that Chancellor George Osborne will use tomorrow’s Autumn Statement to ratify as many as 30 new gas-fired power stations and make moves towards allowing further shale gas exploitation – a controversial procedure better known as ‘fracking’.

Recruiters hit back as pressure builds on expenses schemes

As critics of expenses schemes prepare for an Early Day Motion in parliament in an attempt to have measures to outlaw them included in chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday, recruiters and others working in the recruitment sector have defended the use of such schemes.

Axon Resourcing brings in Butler and Barry

Recruitment firm Axon Resourcing has appointed new senior recruitment consultants Sinead Barry and Edward Butler to its teams in the North-West and West Midlands.

Resource Group appoints Bull director for consolidated recruitment division

Mark Bull, the former UK group operations director at multi-sector agency Now Recruitment, has been appointed director at technical recruiter Real-Time Consultants (RTC), as the business’s offering is restructured following its purchase earlier this year by Resource Group.

Community recycling specialists looking to expand

As landfills get fuller, a specialist computer and IT waste recycling centre in Leeds says it is set to double its workforce and quadruple its turnover in 2013.

Smart fabrics and 3D printing among technologies to drive UK growth

They might sound like they’ve come straight out of a science fiction film, but ‘smart’ fabrics and 3D printing have been named on a list of 50 technologies that could generate billions for the UK economy in the future.

JAM gets aerospace heavyweight Nix in business development role

Engineering and manufacturing recruiter JAM Recruitment has appointed aerospace industry veteran Grahame Nix OBE as group business development director.