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Workplaces sign up to Big Herts Cycle Challenge

With just one month to go until The Big Herts Cycle Challenge, workplaces across the county are signing up and are raring to go.

Employment mentor website launched

A website has been launched to provide unemployed people across London and East Anglia with a mentor who can offer support, advice and guidance to help them back into work.

Have you checked out the new National Careers Service yet?

If you're looking for work, struggling to find a role that suits your skillset or just fancy a change of career scenery, the National Careers Service could be a valuable resource. Launched at the

Work experience key to apprenticeships

A report on apprenticeships launched by Ofsted today has found that those who had completed work experience, course tasters or vocational study were more likely to make good progress in their apprenticeship than those starting straight from school.

Carpenter James turns his hand to policing as a volunteer bobby

Former Bishop's Stortford College pupil James Williamson is pictured in the middle row, second from the left, with his fellow new special constables

A FORMER Bishop's Stortford schoolboy is one of 13 fresh-faced special constables to join Herts police.

East of England council job losses 'mostly women'

PA salaries in the East of England are now among the highest in England

Women make up 72 per cent of local government workers who have lost their jobs in the East of England since the general election, new research has shown.

More women on board but target figure missed

Below average: 18 per cent of women hold board positions in private companies in the eastern region, the national average is 23 per cent

The number of women directors on top company boards has increased to a record 15 per cent but is still well down on a target of 25 per cent set by a government commissioned review, new research has revealed