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Britain's record low interest rates, the recession and lingering effects of the banking crisis helped wipe £4.6m off the pre-tax profits of the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society in 2009, it emerged today.
Sir Richard Branson led tributes last night to banking veteran Sir Brian Pitman, who has died at the age of 78.
Sir Brian had forged close links with the Virgin Group after advising the firm on its attempt to buy Northern Rock before the Government took it into public ownership in 2008.
A green energy company last night revealed it hopes to invest close to £2m in expanding its operations in East Anglia this year.
Living Fuels - which converts waste cooking oil into fuel - said it was likely to lodge a planning application to improve its collection and processing depot at Hockwold, near Thetford, this year.
A construction training company has seen rapid growth after securing a government contract which will see it help up to 165 unemployed people into work.
A stabling manufacturer in Norfolk that has counted the Royal Stud at Sandringham and the New York Police Department among its clients has been bought by an international conglomerate.
A family-run leisure and camping firm is hoping to create Norfolk and Suffolk's largest outdoor equipment store by moving its two operations to one site.
A bus firm launched 10 years ago in a Norfolk village has been bought by one of the country's biggest public transport groups.
KonectBus, which serves Swaffham, Dereham, Fakenham, Norwich and Watton, has been bought by the Go Ahead Group for an undisclosed sum.
A helicopter company which ferries workers from Great Yarmouth to North Sea oil and gas platforms is considering moving its base of operations from the town, it was revealed last night.
The entrepreneur behind a series of mobile phone travel guides has sold a stake in his business to a software development firm.
Mark Oakden set up Pocket Places two years ago and has produced a series of tourist applications - or "apps" - that can be downloaded onto smart phones.
A bright future in the renewable energy market was forecast by an East Anglian engineering firm last night after installing the first of 100 wind turbines off the Kent coast.
Fewer jobs than feared have been lost at turkey farmer Bernard Matthews after the company announced plans to shift some operations from a Norfolk plant.