Business Weekly - Cambridge, UK

Matt Young has been appointed vice president of engineering by Internet search technology pioneers True Knowledge, based at St John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge.

Staff and children at Suffolk-based toy company, Hawkin's Bazaar, (www.hawkin.com ) this week welcomed the latest influx of highly trained racing ducks that have arrived all set for the fourth annual Beccles Duck Race on September 28th 2008.

An East Anglian shop is defying the doom-mongers by putting some real bounce back into its retail sales.

Toys are a serious business in the UK and its worth around £2bn per year. Hawkin's Bazaar with a successful online website (www.hawkin.com ) and 45 shops around the UK, has launched its Christmas forecast of most-wanted children's toys – all for under £20.

Norfolk appears to be the only county in the UK where owners share their swimming pools, leaving scope for other counties in the UK to catch on!

'Share and share alike' is the saying and rising food and oil prices have reduced many people's disposable income. One way of creating extra cash is for people to make their existing assets work a bit harder.

Recruiters who use E4S as part of their recruitment strategy can now save time by posting job adverts through one interface at Broadbean or Webcruit.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to own the yacht, villa or classic car you have always wanted, but without having to fork out the entire cost?