Lend a nose to help test cold remedy

10:26am Monday 15th January 2007

It is the most widespread viral infection and costs employers thousands of working days every year. Now a family-run business is working on a garlic-based remedy for the common cold and T&A Reporter Clive White has been to find out more.

Textile firm's designer coup

3:34pm Monday 9th October 2006

A small weaving company is proving how successful textiles manufacture can still be, despite fierce competition, especially from abroad. One of Ezra T Lee's latest coups is an order for scarves, from top British fashion designer Paul Smith, which have been seen on catwalk stages across the world. T&A Reporter CLIVE WHITE reports.

A home built on steam work!

5:34pm Monday 17th July 2006

More than 900ft above sea level, high in the Pennine hills, is a business blossoming on the fruits of an era long gone when steam ruled and engineering was big and brash. So in love with the location is one of its founders, that he has even built his new home on the site.

Water fight 'linked to stab death'

Updated 6:07pm Friday 18th July 2008

Friends of a teenager stabbed to death yards from his home in Lambeth, London, said he may have been attacked over a minor insult during a water fight.

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