UP TO 35,000 new jobs could be created if the threshold at which small firms start to pay VAT were increased, says the UK’s small businesses.

A MILTON Keynes MP is leading a campaign for the city to receive a better deal on business rates.

THE IMPACT of the recent recession on the sales performance of small and medium-sized companies was more sudden and severe than that experienced in the early 1990s, according to research by the Open University Business School.

BUSINESS nationally has backed the government’s decision to move forward with its HS2 high-speed rail link project.

AN INCREASING number of local businesses are feeling optimistic about their business prospects for 2012, despite one in four feeling increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for the UK economy, according to a survey by business advisers KPMG.