Group Business Editor

CRIMINALS may be “making up for lost time” this year by targetting businesses after a drop in rural crime in Dorset in 2021.

A TRAVEL business expects sales this year to be more than double those of 2021 as it prepares to hire more staff.

MOREBUS will not hike fares now it has a near-monopoly locally – but will have to put them up because of inflation, its boss says.

MANY more company directors may go to jail for fraudulently claiming coronavirus bounce back loans, an insolvency practitioner has said.

THE script is not far short of a century old, but this production of Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels is one of the fastest-paced and funniest nights at the theatre you could wish for.

AN EXPANDING Dorset recruitment specialist has opened an office in Chicago to better serve the US.

THE Bank of England last week raised interest rates and warned of difficult times ahead. Andrew Holder, the Bank's agent for Central Southern England, writes about the looming recession and what the Bank is doing to tackle inflation. 

THE boss of Morebus has told how the company moved rapidly to replace Yellow Buses services after the biggest collapse of a bus operator for more than 30 years.

COUNCIL tax payers were owed hundreds of thousands of pounds when a manufacturer at Bournemouth Airport went into administration, administrators' documents suggest.

THE output of businesses in the South West rose only fractionally last month, according to research or NatWest.