Business

Electricity chiefs this morning blamed a squirrel for a fault which left 1,000 homes without power.

Businesses in Wisbech are being urged to take part in a networking event.

Villages in South Holland and south of Boston could share in an annual £465,000 community fund created by the company behind a new wind farm.

Wisbech is the latest town where Burger King is trialling free home deliveries.

Staff at Barchester Healthcare’s Hickathrift House care home in Marshland St James have welcomed a new general manager to head up the team.

More than 300 new homes could be built in towns and villages across South Holland to meet growing demand from prospective house buyers.

Long Sutton Parish Council is to take up the concerns of a former member over a site considered suitable for new housing in the town.

A new South Holland fish processing business is up and running following a seal of approval from South Holland District Council’s food safety team.

Jobs are to be axed at a Wisbech engineering company after it went into administration.

A Whittlesey shop owner has put a sign up in his window to deter players of Pokemon Go - and help them get their “lives back”.

A Wisbech family business is celebrating after being awarded £50,000 to bring a new product to the UK agriculture market.

Hundreds of brides have been left with their wedding dreams in tatters after an events company in Whittlesey went into liquidation.

A Leverington author has published a collection of stories drawn from her childhood memories growing up in the small Fenland village in a house her father built.

Fenland residents will have to opt in to have their garden waste collected from next April if a proposal by Fenland District Council to cut costs is approved.

Kellogg’s Special K Biscuit Moments Cioccolato packs sold in a popular frozen foods shop have been recalled following concerns over ingredients,

New research into the future of the UK property market has mapped out what the average house price will be in Cambridgeshire by 2030.

The Co-op is selling off 36 former Somerfield stores, including its site in Wisbech, just 8 years after its £1.6billion takeover of the supermarket chain.

A leading grower of vegetables has begun talks with 140 staff about plans to move its potato packaging site in March.

Three Cambridgeshire companies have been named in the list of British firms with the fastest-growing profits.

Struggling department store Beales has issued an urgent plea to landlords to help it survive or see stores and jobs go.