BusinessZone.co.uk is always keen to support new entrepreneurial talent which is why we've launched The Start Line. This regularly updated section profiles the UK's newest and most exciting businesses.

Can you make money and help others at the same time? Gina Dyer meets social entrepreneur Karen Darby, who is about to launch a business that will create 10,000 jobs for unemployed people in the UK's most deprived areas.

It's not often you get to be a part of something that’s a both a commercial and philanthropic success but Polly Gower, founder of Everyclick.com, appears to have come up with the magic formula.

Friends often make the best business partners, but it can also be a recipe for disaster. Thankfully for Ross Elder and Andy Firth, co-founders of Holidaylettings.co.uk, business is booming and the relationship remains in tact. Gina Dyer meets the mogul mates behind Britain's fastest growing holiday home rental website.

In an exclusive video interview, Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragons' Den, offers some sound advice for business owners looking for opportunities amid the economic doom and gloom and also reveals why, unlike other high profile entrepreneurs, she doesn't use social network Twitter.

In the first in a new series of exclusive video interviews, Julie Meyer, who led start-up investment in Lastminute.com, talks entrepreneurship.

British customer service 'best in the world' - UK customer service is the best in the world, says a new report, or is it? We look back at five great British customer service disasters

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Foreign Office advises against dressing up and mooning in Greece - The Foreign Office (FCO) has updated its travel advice... [Travel Weekly]

E.ON says to cut gas prices by 3.3 percent - LONDON (Reuters) - E.ON will cut gas prices to UK customers from Saturday by an average of 25 pounds per year, or 3.3 percent, following a nine percent reduction in power prices effective from March, the company said in a statement on Friday.

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Perpetual Power Completes 1-MW Solar-Powered Water Pumping Systems - Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA Inc. and Perpetual Power (P2) have completed the installation of four solar-powered deep water wells at Limoneira Company's Ducor Ranch in California.

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Video: Marketing Solar Energy to the Public Remains a Challenge - As the solar industry grows, marketing and public outreach are set to become a larger part of the day-to-day operations of installers, integrators, manufacturers and trade associations.

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Heatwave warning for parts of UK - A heatwave alert is issued by the Met Office for England and Wales over the next few days. [Main News]

Ten years for triple death driver - A driver who admitted causing the death of three of his passengers when he crashed into a tree is jailed for 10 years. [Main News]

Oil watchdog cuts demand forecasts - The IEA cut sharply its medium-term forecast for oil demand, saying there was a chance of an extended period contraction as the global recession reduces the appetite for energy [Financial Times]

Northern Rock confirms split plan - Nationalised Northern Rock is to split in two later this year, dividing up its deposits and mortgages. [Business]

£1.4 MILLION CRACKDOWN ON TEENAGE SUMMER BINGE DRINKING - - CALL TO ACTION ON ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR ... (2009/0112) [DCSF]

Jennie Leopard examines how adjusting your approach to technology could help your business cope with the impact of the economic downturn.

With a new version of Microsoft Windows on the horizon, technology correspondent Jon Wilcox investigates the options for PC buyers.

In his latest article detailing the real experiences of real entrepreneurs, business expert Edward Bodiam outlines how a company transformed its sales process through the better use of technology.

As is traditional at this time of year, Nigel Harris offers a seasonal countdown of the best gadgets of 2008. Once you've read his suggestions, we want to hear about the devices you'd like to get this Christmas.

Matthews Holmes, managing director of Liquid Accounts and winner of the web hosted accounting and finance software category at the 2008 Software Satisfaction Awards, reveals how he keeps his customers happy, why social networking is a key part of the company's marketing strategy and his predictions for the software industry in 2009.

In a recent series of exchanges on our sister websites UK Business Forums and AccountingWEB.co.uk, technology editor John Stokdyk has been researching the best printer models for business users.

Small businesses took on the big players and won at the software industry's awards annual shindig in London last Thursday.

The annual upgrade to Sage 50 started arriving on users' desks last week, featuring new features to help small companies cope with the tightening economy.

Specialist small business developers have been nominated alongside some of the IT industry's giants in the Software Satisfaction Awards 2008. Technology editor John Stokdyk reports.

Using web conferencing software can benefit small businesses but making sure users embrace it effectively is key to ensuring that investment in the technology pays off. Stephane Guiblin, from Premiere Global Services, investigates how to get staff buy-in.

Running a business from home is more popular than ever before but without the right technology entrepreneurs could have all sort of problems. In this essential guide, Simon Hurst outlines the key IT kit all home-business owners should have to hand.

Entries are now being accepted for the 2008 Business Software Satisfaction Awards, which honour the suppliers who have done the most to keep their customers happy during the past year.

Wireless technology means entrepreneurs are no longer confined to the office to do business but are the devices as reliable as the humble PC? Louise Druce finds out.

Every 14 seconds a website is compromised by hackers, according to security experts. So what can small businesses do to mitigate the damage? Louise Druce investigates.

To fight the spam menace, McAfee have published to help prevent your email address from becoming a target to spammers.

John Stokdyk examines techniques for coping with the Self Assessment tax filing season.

VoIP technology offers many advantages over conventional telephony to businesses of all sizes. Stewart Twynham investigates.

Nigel Harris chooses the 12 objects that most deeply stimulate his electronic desires this Christmas.

Bernadette Wightman, from Cisco UK & Ireland, examines how start-up businesses are embracing modern technology.

Holding a web conference can be a great way to cut costs, improve staff productivity and product your products and services. But fail to make sure your audience is engaged and the whole exercise will be pointless. Stephane Guiblin advises on how to keep participants interested.

Scottish Government - Detailed analysis of road accidents and casualties on Scottish roads.

Office for National Statistics - Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.

Children, Schools and Families - The GCSE, GCE and AEA code of practice requires awarding bodies to make sure that candidates with particular requirements can demonstrate their skills, knowledge and understanding, for example by providing modified question papers for candidates with visual impairments. The code makes clear that arrangements must be based on the needs of individual candidates and must not give them an unfair advantage or undermine the integrity of the qualifications in any way. In addition, the code of practice states that awarding bodies must give special consideration to candidates affected by an unforeseen and temporary illness, injury or incident at the time of the exam.

Children, Schools and Families - This Statistical First Release reports on statistics on numbers and percentages of young people qualified to levels 2 and 3 by age, cohort and qualification type.

HM Revenue and Customs - Number of property transactions processed with value £40,000 or above - monthly

Office for National Statistics - Weekly release of provisional figures

Office for National Statistics - CPI, RPI and RPIX data for February 2009, including main contributions and tables

Welsh Assembly Government - This statistical bulletin looks at academic achievement by gender, ethnicity, special educational needs (SEN), absenteeism and month of birth.

Sting's wife Trudie Styler and Janis Sharp have presented a petition to Number 10 calling for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon not to be extradited to the US. Styler, and Sharp, who is McKinnon's...

The next version of the web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers

Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern

The FCO has withdrawn a tender, worth up to £2.5bn, for a next-generation telecoms network to replace the Government Secure Intranet and other services

Three patent applications made by Apple were published on Thursday, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved, would...

The company has also made it possible for enterprise and education users of Google Apps to share templates for documents, spreadsheets and presentations internally

Investigators with the US Justice Department will investigate whether Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws

British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has credited techies for being among the 7,000 of BA's 40,000 staff who helped the company save cash by cutting back on hours or pay

A vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the handset, turn on the microphone, or turn the phone into botnet zombie

Enthusiasts have spotted wording in a leaked test build of the operating system that suggests Microsoft may offer a three-PC deal with the new Windows

Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle data in the...

Red Hat has released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualisation based on Qumranet's KVM

Open Videopresence is a managed service that allows interaction between different kinds of videoconferencing kit and across various networks

After months of work, the open source database management software update is released with a focus on better tools for admin and monitoring

Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's Institute of MIcroelectronics have been awarded a £430,000 grant to get busy devloping...

Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions

The government's proposed 50p charge on fixed lines will not be enough to extend next-generation broadband coverage across the whole UK, BT's strategy chief has said

Juniper Networks has cancelled a researcher's talk at the Black Hat and Defcon conferences following a complaint from a vendor

A lack of apps and users having to buy additional monitors to support the technology may hold back the rate of touchscreen take-up

Chrome's extensions framework has matured enough for Yahoo to release an alpha version of an add-on to use its social-bookmarking service

We have recently launched a German language version of our website at http://www.molinsitcm.de/. We plan to provide translations to other languages throughout the year, expanding our reach into markets throughout Europe and abroad. Please pass this news along to anyone who may appreciate reading more about ITCM in German!

ITCM is pleased to announce that another session of ‘Safety Passport’ training for its employees has been successfully completed. Over three quarters of ITCM employees now have this nationally recognised level of training in health and safety in the workplace. The CCNSG (Client/Contractor National Safety Group) Safety Passport Scheme is a nationally recognised 2-day in-house [...]

ITCM has a close relationship with the University of Bath, one of the top UK universities for engineering disciplines. Each year we recruit a number of engineering undergraduates for their ‘Industrial Placement’, which is a 12-month period to gain experience in an engineering business. Recruiting top engineers is challenging, therefore we are very keen to [...]

Growing success and development of ITCM’s Aftermarket and Supply Chain section saw the expansion of the team at the end 2007 and the recent appointment of Ashley Beeden as Director of Supply Chain and Aftermarket. ITCM is committed to developing and improving our Aftermarket service offering to meet the changing needs of our customers. [...]

Following the opening of our extension in July 2007, which doubled the capacity for machine build and development at ITCM, we have wasted no time in putting the space to good use and have enjoyed a busy and varied programme of machine build and development projects this year. Our most recent shipments have included [...]

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A former senior counter-terror officer calls for limits on reporting cases involving suspected terrorists to be eased.

A radical form of banking pioneered in Bangladesh could be brought to Scotland to help people out of poverty.

Andy Murray is "stuck playing defensive tennis" and needs to "change his mentality" in order to win grand slams according to top coach Larry Stefanki.

Questions are raised about the design of a South London block of flats after a fire which killed six people.

The African Union's decision not to help arrest Sudan's president will not affect the international court's work, its prosecutor says.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya vows to return home on Sunday accompanied by several Latin American leaders.

Gay Pride - politics and celebration, the journey so far

Thousands of people turn central London into a sea of colour during the annual Pride march.

Gordon Brown may face a fresh backbench revolt over the scrapping of the 10p bottom rate of income tax.

A confidential police report suggests that jailed Liverpool fan Michael Shields may be innocent, the BBC learns.

UK PM Brown threatens new sanctions against Burma after it refused to let the UN chief meet the jailed opposition leader.

Australia's navy is investigating claims sailors competed with each other to bed female crew, for cash prizes.

9. Figures released today show inward investment and export in the South East remains strong despite the economic downturn.The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and UKTI South East have released their Trade and Investment figures for 2008/09.The report highlights. ...

9. More than 500 South East companies heard from John Armitt, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today about the diverse business opportunities emerging from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.The 2012 Conference was organised by Business ...

. The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) has now entered a period of publicity restriction leading up to the 4 June European and local elections. During this time SEEDA is unable to make any public announcements, host events in the region or produce publications.News releases. ...

. A new £6 million commitment from SEEDA will fund free business advice for the region’s manufacturers to help them drive the region out of recession.This will build on successes over the past six years, where SEEDA funding for the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) has:delivered over £310 ...

. POWER is a 5.8m (5.2 million) interregional programme, led by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) supported by the Environment Agency and co-funded through INTERREG IVC. South East England is heading up this high profile programme involving six other EC ...

. More than 145,000 South East businesses and entrepreneurs turned to Business Link for advice and support over the past year, reveal figures from the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA)Enquiries in January 2009 were nearly 70% higher than January 2008, as businesses sought advice on how to respond to ...