Am I the only person who, whenever I mention being a U2 fan, gets a response via the medium of video rather than words? You probably know which video I mean (the U2-related bit starts at 2:30). Literally this week,

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) announced today that its Inner Moray Firth team will move into new premises on the Dingwall Business Park, Ross-shire.

DMC Software Solutions, an award winning Sage and Microsoft Gold Business Partner, has found another innovative way to guide Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software users through the recession with their CRM buyers' guides and DMC Software's Top Five CRM Tips

Decline in consumer confidence and rising costs means increased difficulties for UK SMEs. But how is the downturn affecting small business abroad?

Smaller firms face a funding crisis in the New Year as 'committed' credit lines are withdrawn, Financial Mail understands

Entrepreneurs need an average of £120,000 to set up a company and typically put up more than 70% of the funding themselves

Ross Marshall and Andrew Harding were just 24 when they set up yourgolftravel.com in July 2005

Their names read like a who's who of British business - easyJet founder Stelios Haji- Ioannou, Sir Bill Gammell, boss of Cairn Energy, and Charles Dunstone of The Carphone Warehouse

More than one million women now run their own business - up 17% since 2000

The Government is considering 'renationalising' export credit insurance to ensure small and medium-sized export firms are protected against bad debt

The Director of the new United Nations CLIMSAT centre in Brest, Breizh (Brittany) said on the weekend that the future of the Breton environment lay in the autonomy of Brittany.

Members of the Camborne and Redruth constituency party of Mebyon Kernow have called on both the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) and the Urban Regeneration Company (URC) for the area to drop any opposition to the current re-opening of

Following a specious and mean-spirited decision an Irish prisoner in England has had his request for a transfer to a prison in Ireland been rejected once again, for the fifth time.

He said this in an interview with the Hlavred Internet medial outlet.

This is stated on the agenda of the plenary session.

Yurii Kostenko, acting first deputy foreign affairs minister, told this at a briefing.

Vasiunyk also said that the Cabinet of Ministers at its next session intends to consider the system of supporting private investors who will build hotel complexes within frames of the preparations for the European Football Championship 2012.

The National Bank asserts that the bank system of Belarus in the conditions of the global financial crisis "works stably".

Activist of the civil campaign "European Belarus" Alyaksandr Barazenka has gone on a protest hunger strike in the Minsk detention facility and is going to continue it unless he is released. He wrote this in a letter to his friends.

The cloud of crisis that looms over the country has a silver lining: the authorities are not ignoring the people anymore and have to heed industrial managers, bankers, and experts....