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Diageo has announced plans to open at least 85 Burger King restaurants in the UK in 2000, creating about 3,000 jobs. 31-Dec-1999 Roxspur is to set up a £4m electronic controls factory in Bristol for its Hortsmann Controls business, which will involve the relocation of workers from Bath and the creation of 160 jobs. 29-Dec-1999 North East Lincolnshire Council has approved plans from Maltgrade Estates for the development of the Meridian Point leisure complex in Cleethorpes, which will create 250 jobs. 29-Dec-1999 Caudwell is to create 500 new jobs at its mobile phones distribution business in Staffordshire, which will benefit sites in Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle and Crewe. 29-Dec-1999 Edinburgh Woollen Mill is planning to set up a nationwide distribution centre for its retailing business in Carlisle, with the creation of 50 new jobs and the relocation of 120 jobs from existing sites at Longtown and Langholm. 29-Dec-1999 Fife Council is considering plans from Premier Property Group and Muir Group for a £140m retail and leisure development near Kirkcaldy, which could bring up to 4,000 jobs to the area. 29-Dec-1999 Luminar Leisure is to set up a Chicago Rock Cafe at Newport on the Isle of Wight, with the creation of up to 60 jobs. 29-Dec-1999 Europa Magnetics is planning a £11m expansion at its factory in Cramlington to manufacture optical discs for internet service providers, with the creation of 107 jobs. 29-Dec-1999 Atlantech Technologies, the Cumbernauld-based supplier of internet software, is to recruit 100 extra staff in preparation for a UK and European expansion that will double its size by the end of 2000. 29-Dec-1999 Bombardier is to start work on a new £30m train depot at the Barton Business Park near Burton in January, and recruitment of the 250 staff is due to start in the spring. 21-Dec-1999 B&Q is planning to expand its Tunnel Drive store in Redditch and create 200 jobs, as part of a £20m scheme to transform the derelict Alcad battery site. 21-Dec-1999 S&A Foods is creating 100 more jobs at its ready-made meals factory in Derby, and is also considering plans to build an additional factory nearby. 20-Dec-1999 Woodville Polymer Engineering is creating 40 new jobs at its airbags factory in Swadlincote, having won new contracts from Fiat, Volkswagen and Mercedes Benz. 20-Dec-1999 Marconi Communications is creating about 100 new jobs in Nottingham, as part of an expansion at its Beeston-based research facility. 20-Dec-1999 Sainsbury has submitted plans to extend its store in Chingford, creating up to 60 new jobs. 20-Dec-1999 Reading Borough Council is considering plans from Shipleys Bingo to develop a £2m bingo hall at the former B&Q store in Whitley, with the creation of 70 jobs. 18-Dec-1999 Inter-Alliance is to set up a finance centre in Middlesbrough, and is looking to recruit a team of 25 financial advisers and support staff. 17-Dec-1999 London Clubs International is seeking permission to set up a casino in Southend, which would create 150 jobs. 16-Dec-1999 Halifax is to recruit a further 600 staff for its internet bank at a second site near Edinburgh, on top of the 500 already being hired at Edinburgh Park. 16-Dec-1999 Newcastle City Council is to consider plans from Thornfield Properties for the £60m redevelopment of the Fossway area in Byker into a retail and business park, with the creation of up to 1,000 jobs. 16-Dec-1999 Rank Group is to open a new call centre in Bognor Regis to handle reservations for its holiday division, with 200 new jobs being created and a further 200 being relocated from other offices. 16-Dec-1999 Redcar Council has announced that work has started on the development of the £1.2m South Tees Imperial Food Park, which aims to house a cluster of food manufacturers and create 400 jobs. 16-Dec-1999 Fitness First is to open a new health club in Hull early next year, with the creation of 20 jobs. 15-Dec-1999 Gordon Jopling, the Barnsley-based food products group, is to invest £2m in new production facilities, new offices and a development laboratory, with the creation of 40 jobs. 14-Dec-1999 Bellhouse Aerospace is to move into a new headquarters in Wigan next April with the creation of 60 skilled engineering jobs. 13-Dec-1999 UCB Films is to invest £30m at its Wigton factory in Cumbria in order to increase production of label and overwrap films, and 60 jobs will be created. 13-Dec-1999 Virgin has bought a majority stake in Worldwide Travel, which will lead to the creation of 100 jobs at the Norfolk-based travel business over the next 12 months. 13-Dec-1999 Quantum Electronics has opened a new £2.5m manufacturing facility in Newport, and 100 jobs will be created over the next two years. 13-Dec-1999 Morrisons is planning to build a 73,000 sq ft supermarket in Kings Lynn with the creation of 350 jobs. 13-Dec-1999 Asda has confirmed plans to open bars serving beer, wine and hot food at 85 of its stores, with the creation of 350 jobs. 13-Dec-1999 OIS International Inspection is to create about 20 new jobs in Aberdeen, having won a £40m five-year inspection services contract from BP Amoco. 10-Dec-1999 Edinburgh Smoked Salmon Company of Dingwall is to spend £2.5m on a new cold store and production facility, with the creation of 60 jobs. 10-Dec-1999 Britax Rumbold is to build an aircraft seats factory in Cwmbran, creating up to 450 jobs, as part of a strategy to consolidate 28 sites across the UK into three new units. 10-Dec-1999 Plymouth City Council has approved a £2.8m plan to expand the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at the Tamar Science Park, with the creation of 175 scientific jobs. 09-Dec-1999 Thomas Vale Construction of Stourport is recruiting 100 extra workers, having won contracts worth more than £8m. 09-Dec-1999 Richmond Foods is investing £2m at its ice cream factory in Leeds, with the creation of 50 jobs. 09-Dec-1999 ADT Fire & Security is planning to create 700 jobs in an expansion of its burglar and fire alarms business, and will open new offices in Reading, Brighton, London, Stoke-on-Trent and Swansea. 09-Dec-1999 MEPC has announced a £100m plan to extend Derby's Eagle Centre with a three-floor department store and 40 other shops, and create 1,000 jobs. 08-Dec-1999 The government is to set up a new call centre in Bristol to handle passport enquiries, with the creation of 60 jobs. 08-Dec-1999 Scottish & Newcastle is to open eight Chef & Brewer pub restaurants in Scotland over the next 18 months, in a £12m development programme that will create 250 jobs. 07-Dec-1999 The Roslin Institute and Lothian & Edinburgh Enterprise have announced a £5m expansion plan for the Roslin BioCentre, creating 250 jobs and space for a further ten biotechnology companies. 07-Dec-1999 Porcelanosa is to set up a sales and distribution centre for its tiles business in Doncaster, with the creation of 50 jobs. 07-Dec-1999 New Horizons Computer Learning Centres is to set up a computer training centre in Bristol, with the creation of 50 jobs. 07-Dec-1999 Hays has won a £200m contract to distribute truck parts for Iveco, which will involve a warehouse in Cheshire and the creation of 180 jobs. 07-Dec-1999 Hays is to create 200 new jobs in Doncaster, having won a contract to distribute goods to B&Q stores. 07-Dec-1999 Aerpac is creating 135 new jobs following the relocation of its wind turbine blades factory to Kirkcaldy. 06-Dec-1999 Sainsbury has confirmed plans to open a depot at Park Royal in London with the creation of about 400 jobs, in order to support its Orderline home shopping service. 06-Dec-1999 Entranet has received a £10m investment from US-based General Atlantic, and is now looking to recruit 150 additional staff to expand its e-commerce business. 04-Dec-1999 NCN Logistics is to open a central distribution hub and call centre in Wednesbury, with the creation of about 100 jobs. 02-Dec-1999 Rhys Davies Logistics is setting up a new depot at the Autobase International estate in Tipton, with the creation of 60 jobs. 02-Dec-1999 AEA Technology is planning to recruit an additional 30 staff, due to the expansion of its Derby-based railway technology business. 01-Dec-1999 UUNET, the internet service provider, is expanding its premises at the Cambridge Science Park and plans to create 350 jobs over the next year. 01-Dec-1999 Oneview.net is to raise £5.3m in a share placing in order to fund the expansion of its internet services business, and is looking to build up a team of 250 sales staff by May 2000. 01-Dec-1999 Indigo Active Vision Systems, the Edinburgh-based manufacturer of security cameras, is to double its workforce to 70 following a £5m investment boost. 30-Nov-1999 Scottish & Newcastle Retail is planning to relocate its 450 staff in Northampton to a new office complex nearby, and a further 200 jobs will be created. 30-Nov-1999 Kirklees Council is backing a scheme by the Kingsgate Employment Initiative to recruit about 500 staff for Huddersfield's £50m Kingsgate shopping centre, which is due to open in 2001. 29-Nov-1999 Tesco is planning to build a £20m store at St Rollox in Glasgow, with the creation of up to 600 jobs. 29-Nov-1999 Kangol is planning to expand its hat-making factory in Cleator with the creation of 150 jobs, and aims to transform redundant factory buildings into a visitor attraction. 26-Nov-1999 Johnson Controls Automotive of the US is planning to set up a manufacturing facility in Redditch by June 2000, with the creation of up to 300 jobs. 26-Nov-1999 West Berkshire Council is considering plans for the tripling in size of the four-star Hanover International hotel in Pingewood, which would create 200 jobs. 26-Nov-1999 East Riding of Yorkshire Council is to consider plans from Essex-based developer Carter Commercial for the construction of a new superstore in Market Weighton, with the creation of 200 jobs. 25-Nov-1999 Jessops has unveiled a £20m plan to expand its department store in Nottingham, with the creation of 70 jobs. 25-Nov-1999 SCA Packaging is planning to expand its factory in Peterlee with the creation of more than 50 jobs. 25-Nov-1999 Independent Lifts is creating a further 30 jobs in Chesterfield, due to an increase in demand for the supply and installation of lifts. 25-Nov-1999 Sandwell Council has approved plans from Parceline for the redevelopment of its distribution depot in Smethwick with the creation of 300 jobs. 25-Nov-1999 Sifam is to create a further 200 jobs at its electronics business in Torquay, following its £60m acquisition by JDS Uniphase. 24-Nov-1999 Finlay Block Making Equipment is planning a £2.9m expansion at its factory in Tyrone with the creation of about 40 jobs. 24-Nov-1999 Greenhill Chemical Products, the manufacturer of washing-up liquid and car care products, is to merge with sister company Reabrook and set up a £4m warehouse at the former Rawdon Colliery near Swadlincote, with the creation of 100 jobs. 23-Nov-1999 Leicestershire & Rutland Healthcare NHS Trust has announced plans for a £9.4m hospital development in Loughborough, creating 100 jobs as well as a day surgery, minor casualty facilities, an X-ray department, and mental health services. 23-Nov-1999 Madford Developments has started work on the development of a £5.5m retail park in Stafford, which will include Currys and Lidl outlets and create more than 300 jobs. 23-Nov-1999 CyberCall is building a new call centre in Cardigan, Dyfed, with the creation of 200 jobs, in a link-up with internet retailing business Avenue One. 23-Nov-1999 Andronics has launched a new satellite communications business in Londonderry in partnership with the Satcom International Group, which will involve the development of the Orbcomm vehicle tracking system and the creation of at least 100 jobs. 23-Nov-1999 ESM is to recruit an additional 70 staff at the former Newport Wafer-Fab microchip plant in South Wales, following an upturn in the world market. 20-Nov-1999 Welsh Development Agency has announced that Soten of Italy is to set up a £2.6m factory at Merthyr Tydfil to manufacture shrink-film packaging, with the creation of 47 jobs. 19-Nov-1999 Kingfisher is to invest £1.5m in the development of a national call centre in Hull for its Comet electrical retailing business, creating up to 300 jobs. 18-Nov-1999 Senior Air Systems is to relocate its air conditioning equipment depot in Manchester to its main site in Stoke-on-Trent, with the creation of more than 50 jobs. 18-Nov-1999 Eurostock Meat Marketing is investing £1.3m in a new production area at its factory in Newry having won a contract to supply meat products to the US, and 23 jobs will be created. 18-Nov-1999 ICL has announced a £100m plan to re-focus its business on internet services, with the creation of 1,000 jobs in the Thames Valley and Staffordshire. 18-Nov-1999 East Midlands Development Agency is supporting plans from OCG Cacao of France to open a £8.5m chocolate factory in Worksop next year, with the creation of 50 jobs. 17-Nov-1999 British Telecom has launched a recruitment drive to find 400 staff for its telemarketing centre in Warrington. 17-Nov-1999 Galen is to create a further 300 jobs at its pharmaceutical sites in Craigavon and Larne over the next three years, in a £40m investment. 17-Nov-1999 Interframe is to expand its windows and doors factory in Paignton with the creation of 20 new jobs, and has just undergone a management buy-out. 16-Nov-1999 MEPC is planning a £70m joint venture with local developer Intercity JIS to build two industrial parks in Liverpool, with the creation of about 4,000 jobs, and it will target motor component and pharmaceutical manufacturers. 16-Nov-1999 Northern Rock is to close 29 of its 105 bank branches with the loss of 250 jobs, but 100 new jobs will be created at a call centre in Sunderland and a further 300 will be recruited at its Newcastle head office to work on e-commerce. 16-Nov-1999 DuPont has opened a £78m Lycra plant at Maydown in Londonderry, with the creation of 100 jobs. 13-Nov-1999 Ilkeston Co-op is to set up a new £3m travel call centre and head office in Ilkeston with the creation of 50 jobs. 13-Nov-1999 Peel Holdings has submitted plans to Doncaster Council for the development of a £80m international airport at Finningley, which could create up to 7,000 jobs over the next 15 years. 13-Nov-1999 Asda is to set up a new £25m superstore at Huyton village on Merseyside, with the creation of 250 jobs. 12-Nov-1999 Greenalls is to develop a £4m health and fitness club at Rubery near Birmingham next year, with the creation of 60 jobs. 12-Nov-1999 Procter & Gamble has confirmed plans to set up a new centre at the Cobalt Business Park in North Tyneside to provide finance, procurement and employee services, with the creation of 245 jobs. 12-Nov-1999 Memory Lane Cakes is to create about 200 jobs at its Cardiff cakes factory, but its Warrington factory will be closed in February with the loss of up to 500 jobs. 11-Nov-1999 Hollywood Signs, the Birmingham-based signmaker, is to relocate to a new headquarters at the Cole Valley Business Park in June, creating an unspecified number of new jobs. 11-Nov-1999 AW Jenkinson, the Penrith-based haulage company, is planning to expand its fleet by 38 trucks, creating an additional 30 driving jobs. 10-Nov-1999 Massilly of France has begun production at a refurbished jar-top factory at Williamstown in the Rhondda, where it will employ up to 80 workers by next spring. 10-Nov-1999 Flying Flowers is creating 150 jobs at a new call centre for its horticultural mail order business in Kelvedon, Essex. 10-Nov-1999 British Midland has confirmed that Lufthansa is acquiring a 20% stake in the company for £91m, and 3,000 new jobs will be created over the next two years at Manchester and Heathrow airport and at its Castle Donington office. 10-Nov-1999 Recognition Systems is to raise £18m in a share placing in order to fund the expansion of its Birmingham-based software business, and about 70 jobs will be created. 10-Nov-1999 EDS is planning to create up to 300 more jobs at its new call centre in Peterlee, where it provides loan services to Lloyds TSB customers. 09-Nov-1999 Gunn & Moore, the sports equipment manufacturer, is to relocate its Nottingham headquarters to a larger facility in Colwick, with the creation of 10 new jobs. 09-Nov-1999 Seagoe Technologies is investing £4m at its electrical heaters factory in Portadown, with the creation of 68 new jobs. 09-Nov-1999 SP Systems is to create a further 40 jobs at its Isle of Wight base, having won a £100m contract to supplying composite materials to a Spanish wind turbine producer. 06-Nov-1999 Tesco is to build a £12m store at Leyland in Lancashire by 2001, with the creation of 300 jobs. 06-Nov-1999 London Electricity is to transfer sales and customer services teams to SWEB offices in Devon, and a further 100 jobs will be created in Exeter and Plymouth. 05-Nov-1999 Triplex Foundry is creating 50 jobs at its casting foundry in Tipton following a £3m investment. 05-Nov-1999 British Telecom has relocated 600 technicians to London and the Thames Valley to cope with a surge in demand for high-speed digital links, and is looking to recruit a further 200. 05-Nov-1999 Esso is seeking permission to build a motorway service station on the M27 near Fareham with the creation of 100 jobs, and is looking for companies to run the motel and restaurants. 04-Nov-1999 McLarens Toplis, the loss-adjuster, is to set up a £3m claims management centre in Portsmouth with the creation of 100 jobs. 04-Nov-1999 West Midlands Co-op is to build new stores in Walsall and Staffordshire and refurbish stores across the region, in a £10m investment programme that will create 200 jobs. 04-Nov-1999 Kingfisher Leisure is to open a £2.7m McClusky's pub and restaurant in Birmingham later this month with the creation of 100 jobs. 04-Nov-1999 New Horizons Computer Learning Centres is opening a computer training centre in Nottingham with the creation of up to 50 jobs, one of 16 such centres planned for the UK over the next three years. 04-Nov-1999 Pressac is planning to set up a £7.5m telecoms components factory near Glasgow next year, with the creation of 200 jobs. 04-Nov-1999 Cap Gemini is to expand its call centre in Nairn with the creation of 78 jobs, taking the site's total workforce to 175. 03-Nov-1999 Nortel Networks is to invest £60m at plants in Paignton and Monkstown to produce optical transmission systems for the internet, with the creation of 1,800 jobs. 03-Nov-1999 Sun Valley Foods is creating a further 80 jobs at its prepared meals factory in Wolverhampton. 02-Nov-1999 Viridian is recruiting 24 software development and engineering staff at a new office near Dungannon for its Sx3 software division. 02-Nov-1999 Teignbridge District Council is considering plans from ASM Properties for the development of a new shopping complex in Newton Abbot, including an Asda superstore and the creation of 300 jobs. 30-Oct-1999 BAA McArthur Glen is planning to add an extra 70 shops at its shopping village near York next year, with the creation of up to 700 jobs. 30-Oct-1999 John Williams Mouldings is creating 100 new jobs at its light assembly department in Dudley. 30-Oct-1999 Matalan has announced plans for a new £8m discount superstore in Plymouth, creating 25 jobs, as part of a nationwide expansion programme. 30-Oct-1999 Martin Dawes Business Communications of Warrington is planning to increase the size of its workforce from 66 to over 110 as it rolls out its national network service. 29-Oct-1999 Corkills Motor Group is looking to recruit an additional 30 staff at its new Volkswagen showroom in Liverpool. 29-Oct-1999 AVX is to create a further 50 jobs at its electronic components factory in Coleraine, having won new orders from the Far East. 29-Oct-1999 Brulines, the Thornaby-based supplier of measuring equipment to pubs, has acquired control of cash shell Comprehensive Business Services, in a £5m deal that could lead to the creation of 60 jobs. 29-Oct-1999 Psyche is to set up an internet-based shoe retailing business, which will be based in either Middlesbrough or York and will create about 100 jobs. 29-Oct-1999 Tesco has submitted plans for a new £10m store in the centre of Hednesford, which would create more than 250 jobs. 29-Oct-1999 Ethnic Cuisine is to create 300 jobs at its prepared meals factory in Swansea, which will double the workforce to 600 by the end of next year. 29-Oct-1999 B&Q is submitting plans to build a £15m DIY store and garden centre in Burton, creating more than 200 jobs. 29-Oct-1999 Hyder is to invest £30m in Lincoln in order to run financial services for Lincolnshire County Council, and up to 500 jobs will be created on top of the 700 employees being transferred from the council. 29-Oct-1999 Wrights is to create 50 new jobs at its bus factory in Ballymena having formed a strategic alliance with Chance Coach of Kansas to develop a new bus for the US market. 29-Oct-1999 Boeing has selected Luton airport as the site for a new £44m European headquarters and pilot-training centre, with the creation of 35 jobs. 29-Oct-1999 Draexlmaier Automotive of Germany is to set up a £5m factory at Rubery to manufacture car components for Rover's nearby Longbridge plant, with the creation of 200 jobs. 29-Oct-1999 Creative Tooling is to create 11 new jobs at its Oswestry factory to manufacture tooling for the new Jensen sports car that will be built on Merseyside. 29-Oct-1999 First Leisure is to open a £6m health and fitness club in Oxford in January, with the creation of 70 jobs. 27-Oct-1999 Conoco is seeking government permission to build a power plant at Killingholme near Grimsby, with the creation of 35 permanent jobs. 27-Oct-1999 KSCL, the supplier of telecoms billing software, is to create an additional 1,000 jobs over the next three years, including 500 at its Edinburgh headquarters. 27-Oct-1999 Atlantech Technologies is creating an additional 60 jobs at its internet software business in Cumbernauld. 27-Oct-1999 Kingfisher has confirmed plans to open up to 10 Big W discount stores, with the creation of more than 2,000 jobs. 27-Oct-1999 Cannock Chase Council is considering plans from Echo Estates for the development of a leisure park in Hednesford, including pub, restaurants and health club, with the creation of 50 jobs. 26-Oct-1999 HSBC is to recruit a further 120 staff for its banking call centre in Swansea, in order to set up a 24-hour service. 23-Oct-1999 Quantex is planning to set up a computer manufacturing centre in the Stevenage area, creating about 1,000 jobs. 23-Oct-1999 MM Group Ireland is to create more than 100 jobs at its Bangor communications centre, including new management, clerical and tele-services staff. 22-Oct-1999 Oneview.net, the Dudley-based internet company, is planning to recruit about 100 new staff over the next year, including technicians, administration staff and sales reps. 22-Oct-1999 EWA is seeking 60 new staff for its call centre in Chelmsford, in order to support a home delivery service for one of its clients. 22-Oct-1999 Belfast City Council is to consider plans from Comtech Developments to set up a call centre at the Klondyke Building on the city's Gasworks site, which would create 200 jobs. 22-Oct-1999 Telewest is creating 840 jobs with the launch of its digital service, which will include 150 TV and radio channels. 22-Oct-1999 Linden Foods is investing £5.7m to improve facilities at its Northern Ireland meat processing plants in Newtownards and Dungannon, with the creation of up to 70 jobs. 20-Oct-1999 Hays has won food distribution contracts worth a total of £50m from Kentucky Fried Chicken, Haagen Daz Cafes, and Yates Wine Lodges, which will lead to the creation of 400 jobs. 18-Oct-1999 Virgin is planning to set up a mobile phone distribution centre near Daventry, creating an initial 35 jobs. 16-Oct-1999 Morrisons is planning to set up a new superstore in Fleetwood town centre with the creation of 350 jobs. 16-Oct-1999 Buko is to create 60 jobs at its factory in Glenrothes, having won an order to supply shopping trolleys to Asda. 15-Oct-1999 B&Q is seeking planning permission to build a £14m superstore to replace its Cheltenham branch, with the creation of up to 200 jobs. 15-Oct-1999 Alpine Rose, the Walsall-based babywear manufacturer, is creating 40 new jobs having won an order to supply clothes to France and Germany. 14-Oct-1999 Taylor Woodrow and Athanaeum Developments have submitted plans for a £25m family entertainment complex in Sunderland city centre, which could create up to 300 jobs. 15-Oct-1999 British Telecom is said to be planning to set up a new call centre in Londonderry with the creation of 500 jobs. 15-Oct-1999 Hill House Hammond is moving one of its Bristol-based insurance call centres to new premises in The Pithay, where it will create up to 150 jobs. 14-Oct-1999 EDS, the US-owned supplier of financial and management services, is seeking an additional 50 staff for its recently-opened call centre in Peterlee. 14-Oct-1999 Tamarind Touch is to set up a new facility near Mansfield to prepare Indian foods for sale in pubs and restaurants, with the creation of 22 jobs. 14-Oct-1999 SP Systems has won approval from the Isle of Wight Council to double the size of its manufacturing facility in Newport, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 14-Oct-1999 Jensen Motors is to set up a £10m factory on Merseyside to manufacture a new two-seater sports car, building up to 600 units a year and employing 60 people. 13-Oct-1999 Tibbett & Britten is to build a £1m automotive pre-delivery inspection centre at Tynedock through its Axial Logistics division, with the creation of 120 jobs. 13-Oct-1999 Spaform, the manufacturer of spas and hot tubs, is to set up a new European headquarters in Portsmouth, which will involve the relocation of 120 staff from existing sites in Botley and Hedge End and the creation of 30 new jobs. 09-Oct-1999 MM Group is to create more than 500 jobs over the next three years by setting up a communications call centre at the former SWEB base at Avonbank in Bristol. 08-Oct-1999 MGt, the provider of call centre services, is to create a further 100 jobs at its premises in the John Smith Business Park in Kirkcaldy. 08-Oct-1999 PowerGen is creating 50 new jobs at its call centre in Nuthall and a further 100 people will be recruited next year, due to rising demand for its gas and electricity supply services. 08-Oct-1999 Greenalls is planning to set up a £7m health club at the Old Tannery building in Norwich, with the creation of 60 jobs. 07-Oct-1999 Landmark Securities is planning to build an office block in Cardiff to house a 1,000-job call centre. 07-Oct-1999 Bradford & Bingley Building Society is to create up to 200 new jobs in the Bingley area, having decided to centralise its operations in West Yorkshire, but a call centre in Leamington Spa will close with the loss of up to 275 jobs. 06-Oct-1999 Halifax is to set up a separate internet and telephone banking division at a cost of £100m, with the creation of 500 jobs in Edinburgh. 06-Oct-1999 Goode Durrant has relocated its head office to Darlington and is being renamed Northgate, in preparation for a nationwide expansion of its vehicle hire business that will create 500 jobs over the next five years. 05-Oct-1999 Telewest is creating 27 new jobs at its Brierley Hill customer service office, in order to cope with rising demand for its new digital services. 05-Oct-1999 Dataracks is seeking permission for a £1m expansion at its metal rack enclosures factory in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, with the creation of 15 jobs. 02-Oct-1999 East Staffordshire Borough Council is to consider plans from MJ Barrett Developments to build a factory to process dry food ingredients at Dovefields, which would create 40 jobs. 02-Oct-1999 West Anglia Great Northern has announced a £10m plan to relaunch the Stansted Airport rail service to London, with the creation of more than 50 jobs. 02-Oct-1999 B&Q is seeking 100 workers for a new DIY store that will open in Washington in November, and there are also vacancies at another store in nearby Sunderland. 01-Oct-1999 Lyte Industries has taken over the former Lucas SEI factory in Ystradgynlais, Wales, where it will employ up to 250 workers to manufacture ladders and access equipment. 01-Oct-1999 Caterpillar Logistics Services is to extend its Desford warehouse facilities in Leicestershire having won a contract to distribute parts for Rover, with the creation of 300 jobs. 01-Oct-1999 Motorola is planning a £50m expansion at its mobile phones factory at Bathgate near Edinburgh, with the creation of 1,000 jobs. 01-Oct-1999 Kingfisher is to open a Big W superstore in Coventry in October with the creation of 250 jobs. 30-Sep-1999 Braintree District Council is considering plans from JL French to build a new £20m automotive castings factory in Witham, with the creation of 200 jobs. 30-Sep-1999 Addenbrooke NHS Trust has announced a £340m plan to expand the Cambridge hospital onto green belt land and build an adjoining biomedical campus, with the creation of 5,000 jobs. 30-Sep-1999 Scottish & Newcastle is seeking approval to build a £3m Lodge Inn hotel in Nottingham, creating about 40 jobs. 29-Sep-1999 Arcadia is to centralise its head office functions in Leeds with the creation of 59 jobs, but 103 jobs will be lost at the recently-acquired Sears offices in Leicester. 29-Sep-1999 Poundland is creating 80 new jobs at its base in Wolverhampton, as part of an expansion programme that will result in eight new stores nationwide. 29-Sep-1999 Sheffield United football club is linking up with regional development agency Yorkshire Forward to transform a site next to the Bramall Lane stadium into a £1.6m business centre, creating 300 jobs. 29-Sep-1999 Connect-2 Technology is creating ten new jobs at its Teesside factory having won a contract to manufacture circuit monitoring and protection devices for W Lucy of Oxford. 29-Sep-1999 Costco UK is seeking permission to build a retail warehouse near the Wyvern Centre in Derby, which would create 250 jobs. 29-Sep-1999 Merthyr Tydfil Council is planning to restore the historic blast furnaces at Cyfarthfa, creating a tourist attraction that will bring 100 new jobs to the area. 29-Sep-1999 Tibbett & Britten has opened a rail-connected warehouse facility at the Daventry International Distribution Centre, which will create 300 jobs for warehousing, administrative and driving staff. 29-Sep-1999 ICL has opened a new software development centre in Belfast that will employ 225 people in a joint venture with Microsoft. 29-Sep-1999 Peoples Choice is to set up a call centre in Leicester for its motor and household insurance business, creating 600 jobs. 27-Sep-1999 Staples is to open an office supplies superstore in Grimsby next month with the creation of 30 jobs. 25-Sep-1999 Electronic Packaging Systems is creating 50 new jobs at its electronics manufacturing plant in Braintree. 24-Sep-1999 Haslam Homes is relocating its East Midlands headquarters from Alfreton to Kegworth with the creation of up to 30 jobs, as part of a strategy to expand its housebuilding business in the region. 24-Sep-1999 Carphone Warehouse is creating 60 jobs in the West Midlands by opening new outlets in Dudley and Coventry, as part of a nationwide expansion programme that will create 750 jobs before Christmas. 24-Sep-1999 Viktor Achter is seeking an additional 80 workers for its car seat factory in Burnley. 23-Sep-1999 Dutton Forshaw is to open a new Honda dealership at Stockton's Preston Farm industrial estate, employing 30 staff. 23-Sep-1999 Crofts is to add a commercial vehicle centre at its Toyota base in Billingham, with the creation of eight jobs. 23-Sep-1999 Telecom Service Centres has confirmed plans to set up a new call centre at Dunoon on the Clyde coast with the creation of 100 jobs. 23-Sep-1999 LG Electronics is planning to employ a further 400 workers at its Newport factory to copy with rising demand for Apple's iMac personal computer. 23-Sep-1999 Collis Engineering is seeking 12 additional workers at its rail engineering business in Alfreton, having won orders to supply railway signal gantries for the modernisation of the West Coast Main Line. 23-Sep-1999 CrestCo is planning to launch a major recruitment programme in order to help with the development of its Crest securities settlement system. 22-Sep-1999 Westwood Communications is to double the capacity of its mobile phone repair facility at Clydebank, with the creation of 100 jobs over the next six months. 21-Sep-1999 Portsmouth City Council has announced that Northern Tool & Equipment, the US supplier of lathes and drills, is to set up a UK headquarters in the city with the creation of more than 12 jobs. 21-Sep-1999 E Park & Sons is planning a £1.7m expansion at its Epworth potato packing plant in North Lincolnshire, with the creation of 20 jobs. 21-Sep-1999 Orange is to set up a customer call centre in Plymouth at a cost of £8m, with the creation of 1,100 jobs. 21-Sep-1999 Sentinel, the US manufacturer of packaging foam, is to set up a European headquarters in Plymouth with the creation of 200 jobs over the next four years. 21-Sep-1999 Eddie Stobart is planning to set up a distribution centre at the Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate, which will house more than 100 vehicles and employ 200 staff. 18-Sep-1999 BMW is recruiting an additional 100 contract workers for its Land Rover plant in Solihull, due to rising demand. 18-Sep-1999 Locate in Scotland is helping to fund a £7m start-up venture called Cogent, in order to set up an internet-enabled call centre in Airdrie that could create up to 1,000 jobs. 18-Sep-1999 Churchill Insurance has announced an expansion programme that will create 280 jobs, including 160 telesales jobs at its new Bromley headquarters, 90 jobs at its call centre on Teesside, and 30 at its new accident repair centre in Rotherham. 17-Sep-1999 The government has indicated that the proposed Scottish Food Standards Agency will be based in either Aberdeen or Dundee, with the creation of up to 45 jobs. 17-Sep-1999 Sheffield City Council is to consider plans from Speedome for a £1m expansion at its Sheffield Ski Village with the creation of 35 jobs, in order to create a self-contained leisure park with both summer and winter attractions. 17-Sep-1999 British Telecom has taken on 80 more permanent staff at its telemarketing centre in Bristol to cope with an increase in workload, and similar measures are being taken at sites in Warrington, Newcastle, Doncaster and Glasgow. 16-Sep-1999 Costco has won permission to build a £15m cash and carry store on the site of the former Dunston Power Station at Gateshead, with the creation of up to 300 jobs. 16-Sep-1999 Tewkesbury Borough Council has approved plans from Hirata of Japan to build a car parts factory in Ashchurch, which will create up to 175 jobs and supply body parts to Honda in Swindon. 16-Sep-1999 Mott MacDonald is to build a 47,000 sq ft carpet factory for Westbond Carpets of Denmark at the Dearne Valley Enterprise Zone in South Yorkshire, which will create 50 jobs. 16-Sep-1999 Onyx Internet, the Middlesbrough-based internet service provider, has been acquired by Pacific Gateway Exchange of the US, and the business will be expanded with the creation of at least 80 new jobs. 16-Sep-1999 Mackie International's Belfast-based textile and machinery division is to be revived by Bridge Textile Machinery International of Galway, and a significant number of new jobs are expected. 16-Sep-1999 Sauce Company is planning a £10m expansion at its soups and sauces factory in Scunthorpe, with the creation of 100 new jobs. 16-Sep-1999 Bernard Matthews is looking to recruit 100 new workers for its poultry processing plants in Halesworth and Great Witchingham. 16-Sep-1999 Tesco is to recruit about 60 additional staff for its call centre in Dundee, taking the total to 450. 15-Sep-1999 British Telecom is planning to set up a call centre in Lincoln to handle residential fault calls, with the creation of 600 jobs. 15-Sep-1999 Halifax is to set up a banking call centre in Belfast with the creation of an initial 700 jobs. 14-Sep-1999 BCH Vehicle Management of Bristol is seeking a further ten sales executives in order to expand its vehicle fleet from 18,000 to more than 30,000 by the end of next year. 11-Sep-1999 Bowey Construction has built a £1.3m care home for the Helen McArdle Care Group in Forest Hall, Tyne & Wear, which will create 50 jobs. 11-Sep-1999 JD Wetherspoon is to invest £12m in a new hotel in Birmingham and a number of new bars across the West Midlands with the creation of 250 jobs, as part of a nationwide expansion programme. 11-Sep-1999 Laird is to expand its computer assembly division by opening a new 150,000 sq ft plant in Gourock, Scotland, with the creation of an unspecified number of jobs. 11-Sep-1999 Polaroid is to expand its Vale of Leven plant in Scotland to make miniature film for its new pocket camera, with the creation of 250 jobs. 11-Sep-1999 Macaw is planning to build a new soft drinks factory at Nelson in Lancashire, with the creation of 100 jobs. 10-Sep-1999 Ashfield District Council is to consider plans from Sheffield-based Dransfield Properties for the construction of a retail park at the former Evans Halshaw site in Sutton, Nottinghamshire, which would create 100 jobs. 09-Sep-1999 James Beattie has announced a £14m expansion programme for stores in Solihull, Sutton Coldfield and Wolverhampton, with the creation of about 300 jobs. 09-Sep-1999 Hibernia Foods is seeking an additional 40 workers for its frozen meals factory in Hartlepool. 09-Sep-1999 Scottish Amicable is to create a further 100 financial processing jobs in Stirling following the transfer of the life and pensions administration business of M&G. 09-Sep-1999 Jersey European Airways is planning to recruit about 200 new staff in order to expand its services across Europe. 08-Sep-1999 Chorion has announced plans to open seven new venues across the country, creating 840 jobs, with most of them based on the Tiger Tiger all-day cafe, bar and nightclub complex in London's West End. 08-Sep-1999 Tees Valley Development Company has announced that the Katsushiro Matex Company of Japan is to set up a £5m steel structures plant at the former Hallcalm Engineering site in Norton, with the creation of about 150 jobs. 08-Sep-1999 Going Places is to open a new holiday call centre at the King's Court Centre in North Shields in December, and aims to recruit 472 staff. 07-Sep-1999 Perlos is to expand its Sunderland-based plastics business with the creation of 90 jobs, and has also announced plans to move its Washington operation to a new unit next to the existing plant at Rainton Bridge South. 07-Sep-1999 Parisa is planning to open 20 cafe bars over the next 12 months, with the creation of 800 jobs. 04-Sep-1999 Unisys of the US is to set up a new software development centre in Glasgow in order to provide IT project work for European clients, and 350 jobs are being created. 04-Sep-1999 TRW is to create 65 jobs at its airbag plant in Peterlee, having won orders from Nissan, Toyota, Jaguar and Porsche. 03-Sep-1999 MeterLink is to set up a factory in the Forth Valley to manufacture equipment for measuring the use of electricity, water and gas, and 50 jobs will be created when a suitable site is found. 03-Sep-1999 Motorola is to invest £60m at its semiconductor factory at South Queensferry near Edinburgh, in order to double capacity and create 200 jobs. 03-Sep-1999 Thomson Multimedia of France is to set up a consumer electronics sales and marketing centre at Kings Hill near Maidstone, with the creation of more than 100 jobs over the next three years. 03-Sep-1999 Siemens is to expand its accountancy services centre at the National Savings site in Durham with the creation of 100 jobs, and a further 300 jobs will come from a deal with Tier Technologies to develop customer care and telephony services. 02-Sep-1999 Domestic & General, the domestic appliance breakdown insurer, is to create 50 new jobs at its call centre in Nottingham, while a smaller centre in Wimbledon will be closed. 02-Sep-1999 Arnott-Century is creating 20 new jobs as part of an expansion of its insurance business in the north-east. 02-Sep-1999 Haani Cables is to create about 70 new jobs at its cable manufacturing business in Hartlepool, and is seeking permission for a new extension at the site. 02-Sep-1999 Pfizer has awarded a contract to Laing for the construction of a £50m information technology headquarters in Tadworth, Surrey, where it will employ about 900 people. 02-Sep-1999 Greenalls is to set up a health and fitness complex at Trentham Lakes in Stoke-on-Trent next year, with the creation of up to 60 jobs. 01-Sep-1999 Quintiles of the US has confirmed plans to create about 1,500 jobs at its pharmaceutical services business in Scotland, with most of the jobs being related to new drug development at its site in Bathgate. 01-Sep-1999 Atmel of the US is to set up a smart card design centre at its existing facility in East Kilbride, employing up to 200 engineers. 31-Aug-1999 Sun Valley Foods is creating 200 additional jobs at its poultry plants in Hereford and Wales, due to a rise in demand. 27-Aug-1999 Siemens has opened a new semiconductor design centre in Bristol, and expects to employ 100 people by the end of next year. 27-Aug-1999 Sainsbury has submitted plans to build a new supermarket in Otley with the creation of 150 jobs. 26-Aug-1999 Balmoral Group of Aberdeen has merged its two tank moulding divisions to create Balmoral Tanks, which is expected to lead to around 20 new jobs over the next six months. 25-Aug-1999 White Young Green has acquired Mason Pittendrigh, the Teesside-based consulting engineer, and expects to create up to 30 jobs in order to deal with highways, environmental and rail projects. 25-Aug-1999 Lexmark International of the US is opening a factory in Rosyth to manufacture inkjet cartridges, with the creation of 200 jobs. 25-Aug-1999 Weatherseal Windows is to create 200 jobs at its headquarters in Winsford, Cheshire, and there will be vacancies in the factory, office and a new call centre. 25-Aug-1999 Standard Products is to set up a plastic and rubber components division at its plant in Plymouth with the creation of up to 100 jobs, but its Huntingdon factory will be closed. 24-Aug-1999 Bristol & West is to set up a new call centre in North Bristol employing 200 people, in order to build up its position in the telephone and postal banking sectors. 24-Aug-1999 Sylvan Learning Systems of the US is to set up an office in Manchester with the creation of 200 jobs, having won a contract to supply driving theory tests. 24-Aug-1999 Scottish Power is to create 100 jobs at its call centre in Falkirk, in order to sell electricity and gas to consumers and small businesses and to pilot new initiatives such as e-business. 23-Aug-1999 Gough Engineering is to create 30 additional jobs at its Stoke-based factory following an increase in orders from the quarrying, steel and food industries. 20-Aug-1999 Computacenter is to create a further 1,700 jobs by the end of next year due to rising demand for computer services and distribution. 19-Aug-1999 Highland Council has given outline planning permission to Kinloch Base for a £3m project to convert the former Kishorn fabrication yard in Wester Ross into an oil supply depot and rig decommissioning centre, which could create 600 jobs. 19-Aug-1999 BlackStar is to create 75 jobs at its online video retailing business in Belfast, having secured £3.8m of private equity from two US venture capital houses. 19-Aug-1999 Web Factory is to create 80 new jobs at its offices in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stafford, due to rising demand for its internet services. 18-Aug-1999 First Badgerline has opened a new £4m bus depot in Bath, and is planning to recruit an additional 25 drivers. 18-Aug-1999 Sainsbury is to create 650 jobs in its Homebase division by centralising regional administration and expanding the floors business, but 1,200 jobs will be lost by removing a layer of management and withdrawing from the kitchens market. 18-Aug-1999 Wilkinson Hardware Stores is to open five household goods stores and a distribution centre in Wales over the next year, with the creation of more than 1,000 jobs. 18-Aug-1999 Orange is to create 2,000 jobs in the north-east by setting up call centres in Darlington, North Tyneside, and Peterlee, at a cost of £20m. 18-Aug-1999 Telewest Communications is to create 40 jobs in Gateshead in preparation for the launch of its new cable digital service, with vacancies in operations, cable installation, equipment servicing and customer services. 17-Aug-1999 Henry Boot has announced plans for a major new storage and distribution depot with a rail freight terminal on land near East Midlands Airport, which could create up to 3,000 jobs. 17-Aug-1999 Express Dairies is seeking permission to introduce in-house bottling at its Sheffield Park dairy in Uckfield in partnership with Tetrapak, and the £11m project would create 50 jobs. 16-Aug-1999 BHK has built a new furniture factory in Peterlee, where it employs a workforce of 120, and additional jobs are being created. 16-Aug-1999 Sainsbury is seeking permission for a £5m extension at its superstore near Ilkeston, which would create up to 80 jobs. 13-Aug-1999 Perfect Pizza is planning to open 100 new takeaway stores over the next five years with the creation of 2,000 jobs, and the focus of the expansion will be in the North of England and Scotland. 13-Aug-1999 First Choice Holidays is to create 600 jobs in Scotland by the end of the year in an expansion of its new Travel Choice division, including a call centre in Ayrshire and 35 travel shopping outlets. 13-Aug-1999 Asda has announced revised proposals for a £25m superstore in Hull, which will create 400 jobs. 12-Aug-1999 Collectible World Studios is to create 75 jobs to cope with rising demand for its giftware business in Stoke-on-Trent. 12-Aug-1999 Carillion has won a contract from US-owned Malmaison Hotels to build a £20m hotel on the site of Birmingham's Mailbox development, which will create 200 jobs. 12-Aug-1999 Dixons has confirmed plans to set up a call centre at the Nunnery Square offices in Sheffield, with the creation of up to 2,000 jobs. 12-Aug-1999 McKesson HBOC, the US-based distributor of health care products, has opened its new European headquarters at the Warwick Technology Park and is planning to create a further 100 jobs. 12-Aug-1999 United Utilities is to recruit a further 30 sales and marketing staff in order to expand its Norweb Telecom business throughout the country. 12-Aug-1999 Kingston Communications is to set up a £4m call centre in Hull, with the creation of 1,100 jobs. 12-Aug-1999 Lidl is planning to set up a warehouse and distribution centre in Runcorn, with the creation of 250 jobs. 11-Aug-1999 Leighton, the Sunderland-based developer of internet and multimedia products, is creating 100 new jobs this year and will open offices in London, Edinburgh and California. 11-Aug-1999 Quintiles, the US provider of services to the pharmaceutical industry, is said to be planning to double its workforce in Lothian, creating a further 1,000 jobs. 11-Aug-1999 MCI WorldCom, the US-based telecoms services provider, is to invest £150m in the UK, including a new call centre in Edinburgh that will create an initial 30 jobs. 11-Aug-1999 Asda has announced plans to build a £25m superstore in Cannock, with the creation of 400 jobs. 11-Aug-1999 Lunn Poly is to set up a call centre in Glasgow for its direct holiday and travel sales business, with the creation of up to 1,000 jobs over the next five years. 11-Aug-1999 Hanson Logistics is to build a 50,000 sq ft chemicals warehouse in Huddersfield that will create 50 jobs, having won a major contract to store chemicals for Avecia. 10-Aug-1999 RJB Mining has submitted plans to mine up to 320,000 tonnes of coal at a former colliery site at Shipley West near Ilkeston, with the creation of 30 jobs. 10-Aug-1999 Alton Towers has announced a £30m plan to build a second hotel with the creation of 320 jobs. 10-Aug-1999 Costco UK is submitting plans to Derby City Council for the construction of a members-only warehouse store at the Wyvern shopping centre, with the creation of 250 jobs. 10-Aug-1999 Maersk Air, the Birmingham-based British Airways franchise partner, is creating 40 new jobs and increasing capacity on a number of routes following an order for new 70-seater jets. 06-Aug-1999 Tesco is seeking permission to build a new superstore in Cleckheaton with the creation of 300 jobs. 06-Aug-1999 BE Aerospace has won approval for a £4m extension at its aircraft seat factory in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland, which will create 130 jobs. 06-Aug-1999 S Harrison Construction of Yorkshire is seeking an additional 150 employees over the next six months, as it prepares to double its turnover to £25m this year. 06-Aug-1999 Providian National Bank, the US credit card company, is considering plans to set up an office in Crawley with the creation of 500 jobs. 05-Aug-1999 Carphone Warehouse is creating 42 jobs in Southampton in a £10m expansion programme designed to combat cost-cutting of pre-paid mobile phones by supermarkets. 05-Aug-1999 Tesco is seeking planning permission for a £7m superstore on the site of the Grampian Fire Brigade HQ in Aberdeen, with the creation of 300 jobs. 05-Aug-1999 Pisani Natural Stone is re-opening the Westhill Granite Works in Aberdeenshire with the creation of 30 jobs. 03-Aug-1999 Filtronic is in negotiations to reopen the former Fujitsu microchip factory at Newton Aycliffe, where it would invest £35m and create 500 jobs. 03-Aug-1999 Hamer Group has acquired Appleyards' Toyota dealership in Hockley, and plans to create 100 jobs by setting up new dealerships at the Star City complex and in south Birmingham. 02-Aug-1999 Tesco has announced plans to build a new superstore and health club on Merseyside, creating more than 600 jobs. 30-Jul-1999 Manpower is to set up a call centre in a converted textile mill in Selkirk later this year, creating 250 jobs. 30-Jul-1999 Ian Anthony Group is to open a £1m BMW-approved body shop in Bolton in September, with the creation of 25 jobs. 29-Jul-1999 Haani Cables is seeking 30 new staff for its Hartlepool-based electrical cables factory, following a £2m expansion. 29-Jul-1999 TJ Hughes has outlined plans to create about 500 jobs by opening new discount stores across the country, including sites in Crawley, Boscombe, Weston-Super-Mare, Wrexham, Middlesbrough and Burnley. 29-Jul-1999 Pace Micro Technology is seeking 90 additional workers to assemble digital set-top boxes at its Saltaire factory. 29-Jul-1999 Huber & Suhner is to expand its electronics factory in Bicester with the creation of 50 jobs, in order to cope with rising demand from the telecoms industry. 27-Jul-1999 IMS is planning to create hundreds of new jobs as it expands its call centre at Steeton, near Keighley. 27-Jul-1999 Teletech of the US is said to be planning to develop the former Health Board offices in Glasgow's Bath Street into its European call centre headquarters, with the creation of up to 600 jobs. 27-Jul-1999 Piolax is to relocate its car components factory from Burnley to the Altham Business Park near Accrington later this year, with the creation of 60 jobs. 23-Jul-1999 Raven Manufacturing is creating 20 jobs at the Altham Business Park near Accrington, having won a contract to supply digital satellite dishes to BSkyB. 23-Jul-1999 James Walker & Co is to open a £2m sales centre for its fluid sealing business in Crewe, creating up to 40 jobs. 23-Jul-1999 TK Maxx is planning to open a fashion store in the Captain Cook Square complex in Middlesbrough later this year, with the creation of 50 jobs. 22-Jul-1999 Sainsbury is planning to open 200 convenience stores over the next three years, and about 1,000 in the long-term. 22-Jul-1999 Reed Print & Design is to open a new factory at North Tyne Industrial Estate in Benton to provide a packaging service for the pharmaceutical and food industries, and about 100 jobs will be created. 20-Jul-1999 E&I Engineering is to invest £1.1m in its sheet metal products business in Londonderry, creating 18 jobs. 20-Jul-1999 Charles Schwab is to set up a customer call centre in Milton Keynes with the creation of 450 jobs, in order to cope with the rapid growth in internet share dealing. 20-Jul-1999 HSBC's Auto Direct division is planning to relocate its motor insurance operation to a new £1m call centre at the Trentham Lakes employment park in Stoke, creating almost 200 jobs. 19-Jul-1999 Netto is to open a second discount supermarket in Northampton, with the creation of 30 jobs. 19-Jul-1999 Golden Vale is to invest £14m in a Rye Valley Foods plant in Enniskillen with the creation of 130 jobs, in order to manufacture a new range of frozen prepared foods. 19-Jul-1999 Rank has announced that more than 500 jobs will be created at the £40m Sky Dome leisure complex in Coventry. 16-Jul-1999 Tesco has submitted plans for a new supermarket in Burnley town centre, which would create about 300 jobs. 15-Jul-1999 JJ Gallagher is planning to build a £8m out-of-town shopping centre in Scunthorpe, with the creation of up to 200 jobs. 14-Jul-1999 The Concorde Club in Eastleigh is building a 35-bedroom hotel next to its existing facilities, and 15 jobs will be created when it opens next spring. 14-Jul-1999 Safeway is planning to create 3,500 jobs by opening and extending stores, but up to 100 jobs will be lost by removing a layer of regional management. 14-Jul-1999 Berkshire Foods is to relocate its snacks factory from Hook to Gosport with the creation of 20 jobs. 13-Jul-1999 London Emblem is relocating its soft toys business from Surrey to a new office and warehouse facility in Gosport, with the creation of up to 40 jobs. 13-Jul-1999 Lansbury Holdings is planning to invest £35m in three retail and industrial projects in Southend, including a new B&Q DIY store and the creation of up to 760 jobs. 13-Jul-1999 PMS International is creating more jobs at its toy factory in Basildon, having won a licence to produce a new set of TV characters called Jellikins. 12-Jul-1999 Alexander Knight Financial Management is planning to create 10 jobs in Yarm near Middlesbrough, having been awarded the Allied Dunbar financial consultancy franchise. 12-Jul-1999 Gala is to open a new bingo club in Banbury later this year with the creation of 40 jobs. 12-Jul-1999 MB&G Insurance Services is creating 200 additional jobs at its call centre in North Shields over the next 18 months. 09-Jul-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications is creating 100 jobs at a new call centre in Waterlooville. 09-Jul-1999 George S Hall, the Stoke-based supplier of maintenance services, is to relocate its 90 head office staff to a new site at Festival Park, and an additional 20 jobs will be created. 09-Jul-1999 Alba Windows is building a double glazing factory in Inverness, which will create an additional 25 jobs. 09-Jul-1999 Allied Dunbar is seeking 70 additional financial advisers and support staff at its North East regional office on the Newcastle Business Park. 08-Jul-1999 Fife Council has approved plans from the St Andrews Bay Development Company for a £50m golf development at Kingask, including a hotel, conference centre, spa, clubhouse, two golf courses, and the creation of 275 jobs. 08-Jul-1999 Winchester City Council has won a European grant to transform the new Winchester Walk into a tourism attraction, in order to promote the city's links with King Alfred and create up to 40 jobs. 08-Jul-1999 Sala International is to set up a data storage warehouse in Southend with the creation of up to 300 jobs. 08-Jul-1999 Motorola is recruiting 120 R&D engineers at its GSM Systems Division in Swindon, in order to focus on the convergence of wireless and internet systems. 08-Jul-1999 Dixons is planning to create 3,000 jobs this year by opening 100 stores across all five of its retail chains. 08-Jul-1999 Kepac is seeking 200 additional workers following a £10m investment in a new meat packaging plant near Preston. 06-Jul-1999 Derbyshire Building Society is to launch a telephone banking service and up to 50 jobs could be created over the next few years. 06-Jul-1999 Salford Council has announced that the government has approved plans for a £85m SnoWorld leisure complex, which will include ski slopes, shops and multiplex cinema, and create about 2,600 jobs. 06-Jul-1999 Teather & Greenwood, the independent stockbroker, is planning to recruit up to 20 research and sales staff in order to double its marketmaking activities this year. 06-Jul-1999 Gold Medal Travel is to set up a call centre in Preston employing 400 people, as part of a £10m office and leisure development on the docks. 05-Jul-1999 Kirklees Council has approved plans for the transformation of the Providence Chapel in Cleckheaton into a conference centre and restaurant, which will create 60 jobs. 05-Jul-1999 Granville Technology is creating 500 jobs at its head office in Burnley and a further 450 jobs at computer showrooms throughout the country. 05-Jul-1999 BSkyB is planning to recruit 600 staff for its Scottish call centres as well as 2,050 installation engineers, in order to keep up with demand for digital TV. 05-Jul-1999 Bombardier of Canada is considering three sites in the Midlands to set up a rail maintenance depot, which will create about 250 jobs. 02-Jul-1999 Hibernia Foods has won approval to expand its frozen ready meals factory in Hartlepool at a cost of £2.4m, and expects to create 126 jobs. 02-Jul-1999 Wireless Systems International has secured £8m of venture capital funding in order to start full-scale production of amplifiers for mobile phone base stations, and will create about 50 jobs over the next year. 01-Jul-1999 Aerospace Systems & Technologies is to invest £8m in the expansion of its Derwentside manufacturing facilities for aircraft wing components, creating 80 jobs over the next three years. 01-Jul-1999 Dixons is considering plans to set up a call centre in Sheffield, which would create an initial 300 jobs and up to 2,000 in the long-term. 01-Jul-1999 Vosper Thornycroft is planning a £1m upgrade of its boatyard facilities in Dartmouth, which could create about 40 jobs. 01-Jul-1999 Cox Insurance is to set up a call centre in Bradford with the creation of 200 jobs. 01-Jul-1999 JBS Computer Services has acquired Wesswood Management, the software company, for undisclosed terms, and has started a recruitment drive for new staff in the West Midlands and Cheltenham. 01-Jul-1999 Cellular Operations, the supplier of telephone connections and billings services, is building a £7m call centre in Swindon, and is planning to recruit about 100 staff before it opens in November. 01-Jul-1999 Pharmaceutical Profiles, the Nottingham-based clinical research company, is planning to recruit an additional 20 scientists as it prepares to move into a new £2.5m complex at Ruddington Fields. 01-Jul-1999 Obara Corporation has opened a £3m factory in Reading to make welding equipment for the motor industry, and is expected to recruit up to 100 additional workers in the future. 01-Jul-1999 WorldPay is planning to recruit an additional 50 staff following the relocation of its e-commerce business to larger premises in Cambridge. 30-Jun-1999 Lidl is planning to open up to 10 discount supermarkets in Plymouth with the creation of about 200 jobs. 30-Jun-1999 Netto is planning to set up a £3m supermarket in Scunthorpe with the creation of 30 jobs. 30-Jun-1999 Aramark has won an extension to its contract to supply offshore hotel services to BP Amoco, and expects to recruit an additional 100 staff. 30-Jun-1999 Gateshead Council and the Employment Service have teamed up to recruit the 900 construction workers required for the £400m regeneration of East Gateshead. 29-Jun-1999 Fife Council is considering plans for a hotel, business centre, and football academy at Dunfermline Athletic's stadium, which could create up to 500 jobs. 29-Jun-1999 MEPC and John Laing Property have announced plans to double the size of the CastleCourt shopping centre in Belfast, with the creation of up to 2,000 jobs. 29-Jun-1999 FKI is looking to recruit a large number of apprentices at its Brush Electrical Machines factory in Loughborough, due to rising demand for its range of turbo-generators. 28-Jun-1999 Birmingham City Council has given outline planning permission to Birmingham University for a £10m biomedical facility and European Research Institute, which is expected to lead to the creation of 500 jobs. 28-Jun-1999 McDonald's has won permission to build a drive-through restaurant at Camborne in Cornwall with the creation of 60 jobs. 28-Jun-1999 Bridge Computer Systems is planning to recruit 50 additional staff over the next two years, following its relocation to new premises in Burnley. 28-Jun-1999 Victory, the Virgin-owned cosmetics group, is planning to recruit a further 3,000 consultants by the end of the year to sell products direct to the public in their homes. 26-Jun-1999 Matalan is planning to set up a 25,000sq ft clothes store in Inverness with the creation of about 80 jobs. 25-Jun-1999 Isle of Wight Council is considering plans from a local businessman for the construction of a hotel, conference and exhibition centre near Ryde, which would create about 140 jobs. 25-Jun-1999 Leyland Trucks is creating 30 new jobs at its factory near Preston having won a contract to fit braking systems on Ministry of Defence vehicles. 25-Jun-1999 Andersen Consulting is to add to its 350 staff in Aberdeen having won a contract to supply finance and administrative services to BP Amoco. 25-Jun-1999 Avocado Chemicals has won permission to expand its chemicals factory in Heysham with the creation of up to 50 jobs. 25-Jun-1999 Clydeport and Bank of Scotland have confirmed plans for a £500m development on the river Clyde in Glasgow, including leisure facilities, shops, housing and offices. 25-Jun-1999 Lidl has won permission from East Staffordshire Borough Council to build a discount supermarket in Uttoxeter, creating 25 jobs. 24-Jun-1999 Storehouse is to open a 31,000 sq ft Bhs store in Wrexham's Henblas Square development in August, with the creation of 90 jobs. 23-Jun-1999 Cartwright Group is creating an extra 60 jobs at its trailer-manufacturing business in Altrincham. 23-Jun-1999 Eddie Stobart is opening two new distribution centres at the Daventry International Railfreight Terminal site, with the creation of about 200 jobs. 23-Jun-1999 Arcadia is to create 200 jobs by setting up Hawkshead clothing distribution centres in Preston and Burton-on-Trent, but existing warehouses in the Lake District, Barrow and Lancaster will be closed. 23-Jun-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications is to set up a call centre in Swansea with the creation of 1,200 jobs, in order to deal with the anticipated demand for digital TV. 23-Jun-1999 Thistle Confectionery is to set up a confectionery factory at New Leeds in Aberdeenshire, creating an initial 15 jobs. 22-Jun-1999 NTL is to create about 900 jobs over the next four years at various sites across Northern Ireland, in order to provide support to customers of its telecoms and TV businesses. 22-Jun-1999 Haani Cables has tripled the size of its electric cables factory in Hartlepool, and expects to add to the 100-strong workforce over the next few months. 21-Jun-1999 Bank of Scotland's Capital Bank subsidiary is creating 270 jobs at its call centre in Wythenshawe, in order to cope with rising demand for personal loans. 21-Jun-1999 Prowting Homes is relocating its regional headquarters from Surrey to the Crossways business park in Kent, where it will employ 60 people. 21-Jun-1999 Woolwich and Countrywide Credit Industries are to set up a head office for their Global Home Loans mortgage service at the Crossways business park in Kent, creating up to 350 jobs. 21-Jun-1999 BioReliance of the US is creating 50 jobs through the £2.3m expansion of its biotechnology headquarters at Stirling University's Innovation Park. 19-Jun-1999 J Wild is relocating its bakery business to new premises in Steeton near Keighley with the creation of 50 jobs, in order to expand production of its biscuit gift ranges. 18-Jun-1999 Lookers is to set up a £4.5m car dealership in Stretford with the creation of 40 jobs, and it will include franchises for Suzuki, Seat and Mazda. 18-Jun-1999 Park Applications Computer Engineering is creating 20 new jobs at its software development business in Craigavon, in order to become a leading supplier of management information systems to the agri-food industry. 18-Jun-1999 LA International is relocating its IT recruitment business to a £2m purpose-built facility in Stoke-on-Trent, and expects to create 50 jobs over the next two years. 18-Jun-1999 Acco Europe, the office products company, is returning to its former headquarters in Wrotham Heath, where it will employ about 80 staff. 17-Jun-1999 Sainsbury has announced plans for a new £20m store in the Northfield area of Birmingham, creating at least 100 jobs. 17-Jun-1999 Telecom Service Centres is considering plans to set up a new call centre in Argyll with the creation of 100 jobs, in order to run customer service operations for major companies. 17-Jun-1999 Thorn Lighting is to build a £5m distribution centre at its Spennymoor factory in County Durham with the creation of 60 jobs. 17-Jun-1999 Haq, the Yorkshire-based food retailer, is planning to open five new stores in a £9m nationwide expansion that will create 275 jobs. 16-Jun-1999 Tulloch is planning to build a £3m retail park at Portree on the Isle of Skye, which could create about 60 jobs. 16-Jun-1999 Catch Monitored Security, the supplier of security and surveillance systems, has opened two new sales offices in Coventry and Manchester and is recruiting an extra 55 staff for its call centre in Middlesbrough. 16-Jun-1999 Rubicon Beverages is to build a factory to make cartons of fruit juice at Tredegar in South Wales. 16-Jun-1999 First Leisure has confirmed that 200 jobs will be created with the opening of three venues at the new Barbican Leisure Park in Plymouth, including the Superbowl, the Destiny nightclub and the Heroes sports bar. 16-Jun-1999 TownPages is planning to set up 3,500 free online information kiosks across the country, creating 600 jobs in two years. 15-Jun-1999 RF Brookes is setting up a £40m chilled ready meals factory at Risca near Newport, with the creation of up to 450 jobs. 15-Jun-1999 DDA Care Services has announced plans to create 30 jobs in Tyrone in an expansion of its business providing care to elderly and housebound people. 15-Jun-1999 Shorts is to invest £18m in the expansion of its aerospace factory in Belfast in order to build a new fuselage for Canadian parent Bombardier, and up to 170 jobs will be created. 14-Jun-1999 Targetbase is planning to create at least 50 jobs in Middlesbrough over the next three years, having won a contract to provide market research to a Dutch firm. 14-Jun-1999 CP Pharmaceuticals is to expand its factory in Wrexham in order to meet rising demand for generic medicines in tablet form, and about 37 jobs will be created. 14-Jun-1999 Baldwins Industrial Services is to create about 40 jobs at its Middlesbrough depot over the next year due to growth in its heavy cranes business. 14-Jun-1999 Macdonald Hotels is planning to build a £14m 200-bedroom hotel at Leeds-Bradford International Airport, which could create more than 100 jobs. 11-Jun-1999 Travel Merry Hill is creating 20 new driving jobs in order to expand its bus services in the Dudley area. 11-Jun-1999 Greenalls has revealed details of its £12m leisure development in Manchester city centre, including a health and fitness club, a 147-bedroom Premier lodge and a Henry's Cafe Bar, creating 100 jobs. 11-Jun-1999 Exel Logistics is to relocate its chilled food distribution depot in Stoke-on-Trent to the nearby NFC warehouse, which will involve the transfer of 250 staff and the creation of a further 100 jobs. 10-Jun-1999 Severn Trent Water has awarded a £9m pipeline maintenance contract to utility contractor MPB, which could create up to 100 jobs in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. 10-Jun-1999 Book Club Associates, a member of the Bertelsmann Media Group, is creating 60 jobs for German speakers in Swindon. 10-Jun-1999 The government's property agency has agreed plans for the redevelopment of the historic code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, involving a visitor's centre, leisure facilities, and the creation of hundreds of jobs. 10-Jun-1999 Procter & Gamble is to create 200 new jobs at its headquarters in Gosforth over the next five years, despite a worldwide rationalisation programme that will cut 15,000 jobs worldwide. 09-Jun-1999 Fenland Laundries is planning to set up a £4m factory in Louth in order to provide a nationwide garment service, and 80 jobs will be created. 09-Jun-1999 Honda has bought 34 acres of land at the Cabot Park distribution park near Avonmouth docks for £10m, in order to double the size of its car distribution centre, and 125 jobs will be created. 09-Jun-1999 TK Maxx is to set up a 27,000 sq ft fashion store at the £50m Kingsgate shopping scheme in Huddersfield, creating 30 jobs. 09-Jun-1999 Safeway is seeking planning permission to build a superstore in Worcester, which would create up to 280 jobs. 09-Jun-1999 Initial City Link is planning to build a new parcels depot in Willenhall, which will create up to 600 jobs. 08-Jun-1999 Sanderson Bramall is planning to build a new Toyota, Fiat and Alfa Romeo car showroom at Langage in Plymouth, creating 25 jobs. 08-Jun-1999 Philips Semiconductors has started work on a £5m semiconductor design facility in Southampton, which will create 160 jobs. 08-Jun-1999 Science Systems, the US software company, has started work on the second phase of a £4m headquarters in Chippenham, and 350 staff will be employed at the site. 07-Jun-1999 Renishaw is expecting to receive planning permission to expand its electronic measuring equipment factory in Wotton-under-Edge, and aims to double its workforce from 800 to 1,600. 07-Jun-1999 Bass is seeking a major leisure company to operate a planned £1.2m health and fitness complex at the Centrum 100 business park in Burton, which will create 50 jobs. 07-Jun-1999 Virgin is planning to link up with One-2-One to launch Virgin-branded mobile phones, and will set up a call centre with 500 staff. 07-Jun-1999 Tesco has confirmed plans to open 26 stores in the UK and 13 overseas, while its home shopping service will be introduced in another 100 stores. 05-Jun-1999 Pink Elephant, the Dutch-owned systems support company, is to create 250 jobs at its offices in Reading over the next two years as part of an ongoing expansion programme. 05-Jun-1999 Toyoda Gosei of Japan is planning to build a plant to make car window seals in Rotherham, creating up to 120 jobs. 04-Jun-1999 Stoke-on-Trent City Council has announced plans to build a neighbourhood shopping complex at the Florence Park housing development in Longton, with the creation of about 50 jobs. 03-Jun-1999 Virgin Cinemas has started work on a new £4.5m nine-screen cinema complex in Hull, and 60 jobs will be created when it opens next year. 03-Jun-1999 Parisa is to open five cafe-bars in London, Newbury, Bromley, Harpenden and Leeds, with the creation of 200 jobs. 02-Jun-1999 Protek, the computer security company, is to set up an office in Crewe later this month with the creation of about 100 jobs. 02-Jun-1999 L'Oreal is planning to expand its cosmetics factory in Llantrisant by 18,000 square metres, with the creation of up to 20 jobs. 02-Jun-1999 Locate in Scotland has announced that Level One Communications of the US is to set up a £2m communications design centre in Glasgow, with the creation of at least 25 jobs. 02-Jun-1999 Portico has revealed plans to convert Ecclesgreig Castle near St Cyrus in Scotland into a hotel and leisure centre with the creation of up to 60 jobs. 01-Jun-1999 Gloucester City Council is considering plans from Cheltenham-based developer Robert Hitchins Properties for the final phase of a new retail and leisure complex at Quedgeley, which would create about 115 jobs. 31-May-1999 BAA is to apply for planning permission to expand Gatwick airport so that it can handle an extra 10m passengers a year, as it does not expect the fifth terminal at Heathrow to open until 2006. 31-May-1999 Bure Valley Foods, the cooked meats products company, has sold an undisclosed stake in the company to Dutch food group Royal Wessanen, and has also announced that 100 jobs will be created at a new plant in North Walsham later this year. 28-May-1999 Sunderland Council has announced that Esmar of Spain is to set up a new car components factory at the Sunrise Enterprise Park, with the creation of 50 jobs. 28-May-1999 Sage is planning to recruit an additional 300 customer support technicians and telesales staff in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in order to cope with rising demand for its accounting software products. 28-May-1999 Aerolaminates of Denmark is planning to build a £13m wind turbine blades factory on the Isle of Wight's St Cross Business Park, with the creation of 250 jobs. 28-May-1999 NFU Mutual Direct is to set up a £3.8m insurance sales and customer service centre in Glasgow with the creation of 250 jobs over the next three years. 28-May-1999 BAA McArthur Glen is planning to open a £70m designer outlet retail centre in Livingston in August 2000, including space for 100 shops and a 10-screen multiplex cinema. 28-May-1999 Midland Mainline is creating 100 new jobs in Derby following an increase in the frequency of its rail service from Derby and Sheffield to London. 28-May-1999 Modern Engineering is to merge with sister company Billington Structures in order to create a combined structural steel company called Billington Modern Structures, and 50 jobs will be created as it improves facilities at its Bristol site. 27-May-1999 Signum Circuits, the printed circuit board company, is planning to take over the former Exacta factory in Selkirk and more than double its turnover with the creation of 50 jobs. 27-May-1999 Travel House, the Swansea-based travel agency, is planning to create 800 jobs in the city over the next three years following its acquisition by Thomson Travel, and it will move to a larger call centre to run Thomson's Teletext operation. 27-May-1999 Rover is creating 800 new jobs at its Oxford plant in order to build up production of the new R75 saloon car. 27-May-1999 Hilton Meat Products is to invest £1.5m in the expansion of its factory in Carrickfergus, with the creation of 20 jobs. 26-May-1999 Portsmouth City Council is considering plans from Munroe K for the construction of a health and fitness centre as part of the £5m expansion of Port Solent that will create 300 jobs. 26-May-1999 Ford has confirmed plans for a £468m project to prepare its Dagenham plant for a new generation of cars, and it will link up with local authorities and other companies to provide training and leisure facilities and a 90-acre supplier park. 26-May-1999 Newcastle City Council has approved a £120m plan from Stamford Developments to transform Swan House into a luxury hotel and build a shopping mall with an 11-screen cinema, and up to 700 jobs will be created. 25-May-1999 British Ceramic Tiles has announced a £30m plan to expand the former Candy Tiles factory at Heathfield in Devon, creating up to 300 new jobs. 25-May-1999 Oriel Leisure is to build a £4m Holiday Inn Express hotel on Gloucester's Waterwells Business Park, creating at least 20 jobs. 25-May-1999 GT Group, the Peterlee-based engineering company, is to create 120 jobs in the north-east having secured export orders worth £20m. 24-May-1999 Dyson is planning to build a £20m vacuum cleaner factory next to its existing site in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, with the creation of 1,100 jobs. 24-May-1999 Just Rentals, the South Wales electrical retailer, is changing its name to Buy As You View, and is planning to open stores across the country starting with an outlet in Sunderland next month. 24-May-1999 The Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Barnsley has secured £6.5m of funding for an expansion that will transform it into a major tourist attraction, and several hundred jobs will be created. 24-May-1999 STMicroelectronics is planning to recruit an additional 90 staff for its microchip R&D headquarters in Bristol. 21-May-1999 Apion, the Belfast software company, is to open a new office in Drogheda, where it expects to create 100 jobs over the next three years. 21-May-1999 Chadfort Engineering is to expand its factory in Blackburn, with the creation of 35 jobs and the introduction of new robotic welding equipment and a powder coating plant. 20-May-1999 Greenalls is to spend £14m building seven hotels in the car parks of London Underground stations, with the creation of almost 200 jobs. 20-May-1999 Seeboard is to create almost 200 more jobs in Hove, including customer service staff and field sales workers, as part of a strategy to benefit from the opening up of the electricity market. 19-May-1999 BVG Airflo is to expand its 56-strong workforce with the opening of a second factory in Brecon to manufacture fishing tackle. 18-May-1999 RM is planning to recruit 250 staff this year at its Abingdon-based computer business, in order to benefit from government plans to upgrade equipment in schools. 18-May-1999 Absolute Quality of the US is to create 120 jobs in Glasgow over the next three years by setting up a support centre for entertainment software products. 18-May-1999 Acxiom, the marketing services company, is planning to relocate 350 staff to Doxford International Technology Park in Sunderland, and a further 200 jobs will be created. 17-May-1999 Stan Robinson, the road haulage company, is planning to expand its distribution centre at Ladfordfields near Stafford with the creation of more than 50 jobs over the next few years. 17-May-1999 Southampton Cargo Handling is starting its first significant recruitment drive since the business was established in 1990, having won a number of new contracts, and several dozen jobs are expected to be created. 17-May-1999 OSM, the Southampton-based machining specialist, is setting up a new workshop and office in Doncaster to service the offshore industry, and at least 12 jobs will be created. 15-May-1999 Fratelli Sarti is planning to set up four Italian restaurants in Glasgow with the creation on 400 jobs. 14-May-1999 First Leisure is seeking 150 staff for its new bowling alley, nightclub, and bar at the Barbican Leisure Centre in Plymouth, while Pizza Hut and the Old Orleans restaurant chain are also opening outlets at the site. 14-May-1999 Tameside Council is considering plans from Reeb Estates for the construction of a new retail park at Denton that could create 750 jobs. 14-May-1999 Sainsbury is to create 500 new jobs at a new store near the Millennium Dome in East London, and it is expected to open in September. 13-May-1999 Whitbread is seeking 75 staff for its new £2.3m Travel Inn at Hayle in Cornwall, which is due to open in June. 13-May-1999 AVE Rail Products is seeking to recruit an additional 30 workers for its engineering business in Derby due to rising demand for train carriages. 13-May-1999 Marconi Marine is linking up with FBM to re-start merchant shipbuilding at the former Cammell Laird yard on Merseyside with the help of a government subsidy, and up to 1,000 jobs could be created. 13-May-1999 Lynx is looking to spend up to £80m on acquisitions to expand its financial software and IT systems business, and is also seeking to recruit more staff specialising in the installation of SAP systems. 13-May-1999 CCS Mobile Phone World is to open new sales centres in Newcastle, South Shields and Durham and expand its Sunderland head office, with the creation of about 30 jobs. 12-May-1999 Associated British Ports has announced plans to build a new £5m terminal at the Port of Hull in order to double the capacity for paper and board shipments, and more than 50 jobs will be created. 12-May-1999 Rank is seeking 180 staff for a new call centre at Bognor, which will become the national headquarters for holiday reservations for all Rank holiday companies. 12-May-1999 Michelin has confirmed plans to develop a 55-acre industrial park and hotel at Sideway near Stoke-on-Trent, creating up to 1,200 jobs. 12-May-1999 Marks & Spencer is to increase the size of its central Sheffield store at a cost of £5m, with the creation of 80 jobs. 11-May-1999 Costco UK has submitted plans to Aberdeenshire Council to build a £7m warehouse store on the outskirts of Aberdeen, with the creation of more than 200 jobs. 11-May-1999 Allied Dunbar is planning to recruit 750 additional financial sales staff, following a move to convert its salesforce into a franchised network in order to attract better-qualified advisers. 11-May-1999 Irish Road Motors is opening a £1.1m car repair centre at Campsie in Londonderry, with the creation of 40 jobs. 10-May-1999 Tesco is planning to expand its Hartlepool store and create 52 new jobs. 07-May-1999 Pink Home Loans, the Lichfield-based home loans company, is seeking to expand its office space and 50-strong workforce due to its success in the mortgage intermediary market. 07-May-1999 Scottish Power is planning to set up a Welsh language call centre in Caernarfon for its Manweb electricity business, creating 30 jobs. 07-May-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications is to create 2,000 jobs as part of its digital TV plans, including 740 technical staff in Manchester and London and 1,200 call centre staff. 07-May-1999 Jensen Motors has applied for government aid towards a new purpose-built factory in Birmingham, which would create at least 60 jobs. 06-May-1999 McDonald's is planning to build a new flagship restaurant in Birmingham, at the former Bank of England premises in Temple Row, creating 80 jobs. 06-May-1999 Birmingham City Council has approved plans for three shopping developments that will create 1,500 jobs, including a £35m shopping centre and Sainsbury's at Castle Vale, a £20m Sainsbury's store at the Maypole, and a £15m development in Small Heath. 06-May-1999 Unilever's DiverseyLever subsidiary is to build a £10m cleaning products distribution centre in Derby, creating about 70 jobs, in order to replace a facility at Port Sunlight. 06-May-1999 CPG Logistics has applied for planning permission to expand its packaging plant at Fareham Reach in Gosport, creating up to 150 jobs. 05-May-1999 Whitbread is to invest £60m in the north-west this year with the creation of 1,000 jobs, including a new David Lloyd Leisure centre at the former Bolton Royal Infirmary site and others in Warrington, Speke and Kirkby. 05-May-1999 Asda is planning to invest £70m in two new stores in Aberdare and Swansea and a distribution centre in Chepstow, with the creation of about 750 jobs. 05-May-1999 One-2-One is to set up a telecoms call centre in Greenock over the next two years with the creation of 800 jobs, while another 500 jobs will be created at its Dearne Valley call centre in south Yorkshire and 300 jobs at Doxford in Sunderland. 05-May-1999 TIB is to expand its CD pressing plant in Merthyr with the creation of 44 jobs. 04-May-1999 Sterling Fluid Systems is to open a new information technology centre at its site in Letterkenny, Donegal, with the creation of 16 jobs. 04-May-1999 Nottingham City Council has announced plans for a £25m city centre leisure scheme that will include a 14-screen cinema, 100-bed hotel and restaurants, creating 150 jobs. 03-May-1999 Joden, the manufacturer of Jessica Maybury jewellery, is planning to relocate from Hove to Port Talbot, where it will create dozens of new jobs. 03-May-1999 Kymata is planning to set up a factory in Livingston to make telecoms components, and expects to create up to 200 jobs over the next five years. 03-May-1999 Paul Cockcroft Properties is planning to build a leisure park between Brighouse and Elland, including a 30-bedroom hotel, holiday cottages and sports facilities, with the creation of 100 jobs. 30-Apr-1999 KPMG is setting up an associated law firm called Klegal, and plans to launch a recruitment campaign. 30-Apr-1999 Wickes Home Improvement Centres and Blockbuster Video have announced plans to set up stores at a new retail park in Blackburn, and other interested retailers are said to include Argos, Staples, PC World, Pets at Home and Boots. 29-Apr-1999 Airbus Industries has announced plans to develop a 650-seater passenger jet, codenamed A3XX, that could create up to 10,000 UK jobs at the British Aerospace factory near Chester and at 400 component suppliers. 29-Apr-1999 Sunley Holdings and Hawk Property Development Company are planning a new £11m retail park in Torquay, which will include a McDonald's drive-thru restaurant and up to three other retail stores, creating 100 jobs. 29-Apr-1999 Whitbread is to build a 260-room Travel Inn in Belfast's Victoria Street, creating 100 jobs. 29-Apr-1999 ZEDA, the IT services company, is to create more than 400 jobs in Nottingham, Hull, Leeds and Stirling this year as it continues to win new outsourcing contracts, and it is also looking to open new service centres at additional locations. 29-Apr-1999 Vodafone has won planning permission to build a £120m world headquarters in Newbury, where it will employ up to 3,400 staff. 29-Apr-1999 Bass Developments has won approval from the East Staffordshire planning committee to build a £7m nine-screen cinema with restaurants and a pub in Burton, creating 140 jobs. 28-Apr-1999 Grundig UK is to expand production at its TV set-top boxes factory in Llantrisant with the creation of 120 jobs. 28-Apr-1999 Smart Europe is seeking 70 new staff for its telemarketing call centre in Sandbach, and is also planning to open a second call centre in the north employing 30 people later this year. 28-Apr-1999 Celtic Manor, the £100m hotel complex near Newport in Gwent, is seeking 200 additional staff following an expansion that has left it with 400 rooms, two restaurants, two health clubs and a conference centre. 27-Apr-1999 Lambert Smith Hampton is acting as agent for a £4m retail and visitor attraction being planned by the Moygashel Development Association in Mid Ulster, which could create up to 400 jobs. 27-Apr-1999 On Digital is to create an additional 75 jobs at its digital TV call centre in Plymouth, and Plymouth is one of a number of potential locations for a new national customer inquiry centre, which could create 1,000 jobs over five years. 26-Apr-1999 VIS Interactive, the Dunfermline-based computer games designer, is planning to create up to 240 jobs by setting up a network of studios across Europe. 23-Apr-1999 Jagged Globe, the operator of tours for climbers, is to set up a new headquarters at the Foundry climbing centre in Sheffield, creating 20 jobs. 23-Apr-1999 Gateshead Council is reconsidering plans from Costco of the US to build a warehouse shopping outlet on the former Dunston Power Station site, which would create hundreds of jobs. 23-Apr-1999 Filtronic is planning to build another electronic components plant at Shipley in Yorkshire, which will create 400 jobs. 23-Apr-1999 Highland Council has agreed the sale of land at the site of the former Glebe Street swimming pool in Inverness to builders Upland Tulloch for the construction of a £10m hotel and conference centre, which will create 100 jobs. 23-Apr-1999