If last year, at least according to the media, was not the best for business, we still observed plenty of people in the shops around Christmas time and plenty of business being done, so we kept positive.

It seems that there are more positive changes on the way in the Berkshire as the government allocated £10.8m for the economic growth in this region. This budget managed by the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) will focus on infrastructure building and jobs creation. Read the full article here.

The local business owners should take one simple message from this: now is the time to prepare your business for growth. According to the LEP leader:

This injection of funds will help us to be more innovative, productive and attractive for business as we focus on building the infrastructure and businesses that will sustain the area for the next 30 years.

On a related issue, Reading has been voted the top micro-city in Europe. Read more here.

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