Winchester City Council has signed up to the online shopping and ordering platform, ShopAppy.com. Businesses are being invited to register to the website for free, which will provide them with further opportunities to promote their services and sell products to local customers. The council and ShopAppy is offering free membership to all businesses and community organisations in the district for the first 12 months, enabling them to reach a wider pool of customers and extending their online visibility. Cllr Martin Tod, Cabinet Member for Economic Recovery, said: More and more people want to shop locally online as well as offline – and we strongly support that.
AFTER months of closed doors, furloughed staff and lockdown uncertainty, ‘a taste of normality’ is finally returning to the hospitality and leisure industry across the region today. Dawn Raine, manager of the Blackwell Grange Hotel in Darlington said that today is ‘the day we’ve all been waiting for’ as the venue joins thousands of others in throwing open its doors to customers - albeit with Covid restrictions. And as if dealing with a global pandemic wasn’t enough, the landlord of the Black Horse pub in County Durham had to contend with his outdoor plans being affected by another international incident as some of his beer garden equipment was delayed by the marooned container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March.
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A hairdresser at work in Vienna, but April 12 is the earliest salons may open in England
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SIR – We are concerned that the fiscal impact of the Government’s lockdown measures on women is being overlooked.
The virus has taken its toll on a great many people in Britain, but a significant number of female employers, entrepreneurs and employees are being affected – and the damage could take decades to repair.
More women than men work in sectors that have shut down. Mothers are almost 50 per cent more likely than fathers to have lost their jobs or been forced to leave because school closures have created a childcare crisis.
BRITAIN S oldest butcher has been named as one of the UK s best loved local businesses . R J Balson and Son of West Allington, Bridport, has been recognised in a national event which gives local people the opportunity to nominate their favourite businesses. The Love Local Day event is a support local campaign which recognises most loved local businesses throughout the country as well as those most loved within their local and wider areas. The event is being championed by ShopAppy, a digital platform and shop local campaign backed by Dorset LEP. R J Balson and Son celebrated its 505th anniversary in September and has spanned 25 family generations.
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