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FOLLOW YELLOW BRICK ROAD Friday, May 2, 2008

FOLLOW YELLOW BRICK ROAD

INNOVATIVE fashion store Yellow Brick Road has gone from strength to strength since opening in June last year.
The shop, situated in Carisbrooke Road in Newport, has just launched a new online store at www.ybrshop.co.uk, which is popular with students and other young and trendy people across the country.
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FLYING HIGH WITH BEST OF BRITISH Friday, May 2, 2008

FLYING HIGH WITH BEST OF BRITISH

AN Island company has been given royal approval by winning one of the country’s most prestigious awards for business-related achievement — the Queen’s Award.
Newport company Inflight Peripherals was an international trade award winner this year after more than quadrupling its overseas revenue in three years and selling more than 90 per cent of its production overseas.
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Friday, May 2, 2008

NEW ISLAND GUIDES TO COMPETE WITH COUNCIL

FINAL plans are being laid to launch rival tourist guides to those produced by the IW Council.
Fed up with claimed  IW Council tourism “inaction,”  the IW Chamber of Commerce, Tourism and Industry is seeking tenders from Island businesses to design and print its own guides.
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CONVERSION OF CHAPEL WAS LABOUR OF LOVE Friday, May 2, 2008

CONVERSION OF CHAPEL WAS LABOUR OF LOVE

THE conversion of the old chapel at Great East Standen Manor has been an inspired labour of love for Ronald Scotchbrook.
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Friday, May 2, 2008

TURNING WASTE INTO MUTUAL BENEFIT

BUSINESSES got together to go green at a workshop in Cowes — and managed to turn waste from some companies into raw materials for others.
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BLINDNESS IS NO BAR TO SUCCESS Friday, May 2, 2008

BLINDNESS IS NO BAR TO SUCCESS

BLIND book-keeper Julie Grant has won a prestigious business award — proving her deteriorating eyesight is no barrier to success.
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Friday, May 2, 2008

HOW TO AVOID COWBOYS

A SCHEME to help consumers avoid rip-off merchants and cowboys has signed up its 200th member.
The IW Council trading standards department launched its Buy With Confidence initiative three years ago to ensure Island businesses traded fairly, were trustworthy and kept to the spirit and letter of the law.
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Friday, May 2, 2008

BEACON STATUS FOR LEARN DIRECT

THE quality and breadth of education at the IW College COOLspot learn direct centres have been recognised in a top national award.
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Friday, May 2, 2008

HELP FOR PEOPLE TO START OWN BUSINESS

HELP is at hand for people who have always dreamed of setting up their own business.
Work for You, a free event, offers an informal setting where potential business owners can find inspiration, motivation, essential information and advice about starting their own business at Quay Arts, Newport, on Thursday, May 15
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Friday, May 2, 2008

GETTING MORE ONLINE

GETTING the most out of online trading is the subject of a new informative guide for businesses.
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