•Publishers demand action to break Google’s monopoly on search and digital ads •Tech giant controls up to 98 per cent of searches and 50 per cent of browsers •Marketers for Open Web had asked Competition and Markets Authority to probe •Critics say Google’s ‘sandbox’ privacy settings will decimate online ad…

The management team at Abatec, a North Somerset based recruitment company have carried out a management buy-out of the firm. Richard Buchanan, Managing Director has been joined by fellow director Rob Dyer, who both led the deal and acquired 100% shareholding of the business. local MP John Penrose can be…

Fingleton’s Simon Oates discusses the potential implications for regulated companies of the Penrose Review of UK competition policy. Is the system of regulatory appeals in the UK about to be overhauled? In September last year, the prime minister asked John Penrose to examine UK competition policy with a view to identifying how…

Weston’s MP John Penrose has welcomed news the Government will drop proposals to increase North Somerset’s housebuilding targets from 1,365 to 1,708 a year. This announcement comes just months after John wrote to Ministers raising concerns that the proposed new housebuilding targets were unrealistic and weeks after John and Liam…