FORMER Army colonel Iain Standen is to take over as chief executive of Bletchley Park Trust. He succeeds Simon Greenish, who is due to step down at the end of this month.

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.