Better Bankside, SE1's first business improvement district (BID), has won a second five-year term in a ballot of the 460 businesses in the area.
A founding member of a Waterloo based youth forum has been recognised nationally in an inaugural list of future leaders.
When the recession forced fashion designer Amanda Thompson to close her wholesale fashion business, she looked like yet another casualty of the credit crunch. Instead she has made the move from wholesaler to retailer and has seen her business prosper.
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