http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Amy+Activ Marketing Amy Activ Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=508400&ca=Marketing Official government figures have confirmed that the UK being is now in recession for the first time since 1991. Like many cities, Peterborough has been impacted by the recession in one way or another. Peterborough businesses strive to achieve economic success with unemployment rising rapidly, and bu... Business Amy Activ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=486619&ca=Business Southampton is a city that contributes over �2billion to the British economy every year and boosts some of the most famous household names in the UK �EBandQ, HSBC, Skandia and Ordnance Survey just to name a few. There are over 7,700 businesses operating in Southampton and provides employment for ove... Society Amy Activ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=488091&ca=Society Crewe and the surrounding areas used to depend heavily on the Engineering Industry for thousands and thousands of jobs. There was a time just some 30 or 40 years ago that most male school leavers would walk straight into an engineering apprenticeship. British Rail Engineering used to build and repai... Business Amy Activ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=473803&ca=Business Portsmouth is located on the South coast of England in the county of Hampshire and is the UK�s only island city with a population of around 200,000 in the city and combined population of 450,000 in the wider urban area of Portsmouth. The city has always had a big connection with the Royal Navy and d... Advice Amy Activ Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=464236&ca=Advice Portsmouth is Britain's only island city and is most noted for its naval ports. Portsmouth has one of the world's oldest dry docks, which has the HMS Victory sitting in it, which was the flagship of Lord Nelson. When the Mary Rose was raised it was moved to Portsmouth and is on show in a museum. In... Business Amy Activ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=461160&ca=Business Coventry has had a very tough year in 2009 on the economic front with some heavy job losses. The city has been through tough times before in its history and �risen from the ashes� both literally and metaphorically. Coventry has been and still is a centre of excellence for engineering and manufacturi... Business Amy Activ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=451506&ca=Business Birmingham, like the majority of towns and cities in the UK, has seen major industrial changes during the last three/four decades, with numerous companies, both large and small, opening and closing their gates for the last time. It has also suffered considerably in the current economic recession as... Business Amy Activ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=448880&ca=Business At one point during it's history, Downpatrick was a bustling centre of business activity � the town even had a direct transport link with Liverpool via a steamer which departed from Quoile Quay. In more recent times the town seems to have played second fiddle to others within the district, quietly w... Travel Amy Activ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=447640&ca=Travel So Britain has its newest (and ninth) national park! Stretching from Beachy Head in Sussex to the very edge of the city of Winchester, the South Downs National Park contains some of the most beautiful countryside in Britain. The new Park covers over 630 square miles and contains the Winchester villa... Business Amy Activ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=443584&ca=Business Some would describe Glasgow as a tough city, with high unemployment, ill health with age long bigotry between its 2 main football clubs. And if you walk around the city I guess you will see examples of all of these things, so you could be forgiven for assuming Glasgow must be in a bad way given the...