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  • Dragon breathes extra fire into Skills Show

    Theo Paphitis – star of BBC Two TV’s Dragons’ Den and one of the UK’s most high profile shopkeepers – is ...

    Theo Paphitis – star of BBC Two TV’s Dragons’ Den and one of the UK’s most high profile shopkeepers – is now Patron of The Skills Show that is open to the public at the NEC, Birmingham from Thursday N ...

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  • UK return for Autologic's NCTS

    Autologic Diagnostics have just released details for their 2013 National Conference & Technical Sessions. ...

    Autologic Diagnostics have just released details for their 2013 National Conference & Technical Sessions. Following the tremendous success of last year’s UK NCTS, the event this year will again return ...

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  • PMM teams up with the BRC

    PMM is excited to announce that we have agreed to become official Technical Media partners to the MSA Bri ...

    PMM is excited to announce that we have agreed to become official Technical Media partners to the MSA British Rally Championship (BRC) for the 2013 season. With an average age of just 23 years during ...

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  • EEC's pink rockers

    Colleagues at Denmead-based European Exhaust and Catalyst (EEC) have been 'going pink' in support of Brea ...

    Colleagues at Denmead-based European Exhaust and Catalyst (EEC) have been 'going pink' in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Staff raised £250 by spending a day wearing pink clothing, baking an ...

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  • Yuasa announces competition winners

    Yuasa Battery Sales (UK) has announced the winners and runners-up in its BTCC 2012 end-of-season competit ...

    Yuasa Battery Sales (UK) has announced the winners and runners-up in its BTCC 2012 end-of-season competition. The winner, Darren Barker from Borras, Wrexham, received two hospitality tickets for the r ...

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  • ADS Technical Conference - reserve your place

    ADS will again be hosting a technical training extravaganza when the Jean Massey Technical Conference ret ...

    ADS will again be hosting a technical training extravaganza when the Jean Massey Technical Conference returns to Harrogate in November. The conference is exclusive to Frank Massey-trained individuals ...

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  • RMI moves closer to UKAS certification accreditation

    The Retail Motor Industry Standard and Certification body (RMISC), a subsidiary of the RMI, is currently ...

    The Retail Motor Industry Standard and Certification body (RMISC), a subsidiary of the RMI, is currently working towards UKAS accreditation for the supply of a cost effective publicly available certif ...

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  • Tyre labelling legislation to shake up retail sellers

    New European legislation, which comes into force on Thursday 1st November 2012, makes it mandatory for an ...

    New European legislation, which comes into force on Thursday 1st November 2012, makes it mandatory for anyone selling tyres to provide information to motorists about each tyre’s impact on fuel economy ...

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  • Social media mis-use can cost sales

    Small companies could be losing sales and damaging their reputation by bombarding potential customers wit ...

    Small companies could be losing sales and damaging their reputation by bombarding potential customers with their relentless use of social media, according to a business networking organisation. Three ...

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  • New loan opportunities for small businesses

    Business Secretary Vince Cable recently announced that the Government has agreed to put £1 billion into a ...

    Business Secretary Vince Cable recently announced that the Government has agreed to put £1 billion into a new UK business bank which will be created specifically to help fund small to medium sized bus ...

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  • Employers risk massive health and safety costs

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently confirmed the launch of its cost recovery scheme – Fee ...

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently confirmed the launch of its cost recovery scheme – Fee for Intervention (FFI) (which commenced on October 1st), meaning business owners need to start ...

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  • Automechanika 2012 - news and reviews

    Spread over six days and with over 160,000 visitors, Automechanika is one of the biggest single sector tr ...

    Spread over six days and with over 160,000 visitors, Automechanika is one of the biggest single sector trade shows in the world. This year’s show in Frankfurt was attended by some of the industry’s bi ...

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  • PMM October issue - available NOW!

    The October 2012 issue of Professional Motor Mechanic Magazine has hit the streets and, as always, the ma ...

    The October 2012 issue of Professional Motor Mechanic Magazine has hit the streets and, as always, the magazine is jam-packed with all of the latest news, technical hints and repair advice, the newest ...

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  • IAAF challenges dealership's servicing statement

    A Ford Fiesta owner, and sometime customer of Matlock Ford, approached an IAAF member regarding a message ...

    A Ford Fiesta owner, and sometime customer of Matlock Ford, approached an IAAF member regarding a message rubberstamped into his 'Service Book' by the Service department at Matlock Ford. The text of t ...

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  • The Skills Show comes to town

    The Skills Show (15th - 17th November, NEC Birmingham) provides the perfect opportunity for the future ge ...

    The Skills Show (15th - 17th November, NEC Birmingham) provides the perfect opportunity for the future generation of technicians to meet employers and to talk with real people about real jobs. There i ...

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