Starting 1st February 2016, new guidelines from the Sentencing Council will dramatically increase fines for corporate manslaughter, food safety and hygiene offences, and health and safety offences.

Thousands more businesses and homes have been hit by the Christmas flooding, which has devastated wide areas of northern and north west England.

Recent news coverage has shown how the Boxing Day floods have caused havoc to residents in the North of England.

The new managers of a pub that was broken into a by a robber with a knife have shrugged off concerns about crime and say they’ll be getting on with business as usual.

Car dealers’ minds may currently be on what Santa Claus will be delivering tonight (Christmas Eve), but there could be even better gifts on the way in the New Year.

We will be open over the Christmas period to handle new commercial enquiries and insurance renewals.

Businesses across Cumbria are again gearing up to deal with the effects of flooding as heavy rain once again lashed the county and river levels rose.

A Surrey takeaway says it has lost thousands of pounds in sales after a fire at the premises meant it had to shut up shop over the busy weekend period.

Car dealers hoping to benefit from the usual winter increase in value of 4x4 vehicles may be disappointed this year, thanks to the continued unseasonably warm weather.

Two people were taken to hospital and two others are being sought police after a suspected failed burglary at a Lincolnshire shop.