Northern England, Wales, the Midlands and Scotland have all suffered the largest rises in unemployment. It is the manufacturing and heavy industry areas that have seen most distress.
Official figures published by research consultancy the Work Foundation showed that Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Sheffield, Hull, Manchester, Bradford, Kirklees, Liverpool and Bristol were the worst effected areas.
Fashion retailer Austin Reed plans to create 200 new jobs in the coming year in at least 30 new stores and concessions. New sites for the firm include Liverpool and Newcastle.
Clear Contact Marketing is likely to increase its staff by six times creating around 160 extra jobs by the end of the year. They are currently based in Queen’s Dock, Liverpool but plan to relocate to different offices to accommodate the growth.
At present they only employ 35 staff but will create 37 extra Liverpool jobs immediately after the move. Clear Contact Marketing will be employing call centre staff, and create telecoms jobs and marketing jobs and plans to spend £2.5 million over the next three years developing the company.
We will of course be contacting Clear Contact Marketing about these vacancies please visit our Liverpool Jobs section for more jobs in Liverpool.
Natasha Hamilton from Atomic Kitten (if you remember them) and her fiancé Riad Erraji launched Hamilton’s, a new coffee shop and delicatessen in Liverpool’s fashionable Metquarter last month. This café / bar is the first outlet the couple have opened and the launch did coincide with the opening of their nightclub ‘H’.
The coffee shop and deli is open at 9.30am and offers breakfast, afternoon tea and light meals. This couple are certainly doing their bit to offer part time and temporary contracts in Liverpool, this latest addition to the Metquarter is in good company being placed near Café Rouge and Costa to name but a few of its neighbours.
Click here for a map of the Liverpool Met Quarter
The £920 milllon rebuilding of the Paradise Street area has been going on since 2004 and should be completed late next year. It is the largest scheme in Europe and will have over 1.6 million square feet of new shopping space.
The 42.5 acre site will contain over 30 individually designed buildings. The largest of these will be a 240,000 sq ft John Lewis department store, the chain’s largest in the North West. Also on the site there will be Debenhams, two hotels, a gallery, new bus station, new public park, cinema and 3,000 parking spaces. This will create over 4,400 jobs, many of them being temporary, shift based or part-time. It will bring a huge amount of employment to the area - all part of the generic development that is being seen across Liverpool.
