2 November 2026

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Business · 2 min

Holloway Biscuit Company to expand its Eastmoor factory, creating 220 jobs

The family-owned baker will add two production lines and a new packing hall, in what it says is the largest single investment in its 94-year history.

Text: Chloé Martin
Business Wrenhaven Credit Union opens counters inside branch libraries Members in four neighbourhoods without a bank branch can now pay in savings, ask about loans and get help with budgeting on the same visit as borrowing a book. Yasmin Haddad · 2 min Business · 12 photos Fishing boats in harbour: bright hulls and patient nets From the Mediterranean to the Baltic, frames from the colourful world of boats moored in small harbours. Samuel Adeyemi · 1 min Business Asher Valley dairy cooperative builds its own cheese plant Forty-one family farms have pooled €9.5m to turn part of their milk into hard cheese and butter, aiming to earn more per litre than selling it to large processors. Aisha Rahman · 2 min

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Business · 2 min Cruise calls to Wrenhaven double, but residents ask for limits The port expects 64 cruise ship visits this year, bringing an estimated €14m into the city, while Old Quay residents want a cap on the number of ships on a single day. Nadia Karim · Business · 1 min Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field. Lucas Moreau · Business · 1 min Forestry harvester at work in a winter woodland A timber machine working through a snowy birch wood stacks felled trunks by the track. Ingrid Halvorsen · Business · 1 min Combines side by side in a wheat field: the harvest from above Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer. Rafael Ortega · Business · 2 min Saltings shipyard wins order for three electric harbour ferries The contract, worth around €27m, will keep the yard's slipways busy until 2029 and replace the diesel boats that cross between Old Quay and the Saltings. Owen Pryce · Business · 10 photos · 1 min Tea gardens: green terraces on the hillsides From Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations. Isabel Duarte · Business · 2 min Pop-up shops push Wrenhaven high-street vacancy rate to a six-year low A scheme offering empty units to start-up traders on short, cheap leases has filled 37 shopfronts, and a third of the tenants have now signed longer contracts. Callum Reid · Business · 2 min Greyling Hills sawmill switches to engineered timber for apartment blocks Hartshorn Timber has invested in a press that glues layers of local spruce into large structural panels, and has won its first order for a six-storey housing scheme. Marcus Feld · Business · 11 photos · 1 min Harvest time in the vineyards: from grapes to landscapes Frames showing the season's work and scenery in Europe's vineyards. Grace Mwangi · Business · 3 min Port of Wrenhaven handles record container volumes as Asher Point deep-water berth opens The port moved more boxes in the past quarter than in any three months on record, helped by a new 400-metre berth that can take the largest ships now calling in the region. Marcus Feld · Business · 2 min Old Quay market traders adopt card payments as cash use falls Almost every stall at the weekend market now takes cards after a group deal cut fees, though traders say they will keep accepting coins for regulars who prefer them. Leo Novak · Business · 3 min Asher Valley villagers club together to buy their own wind turbine More than 600 residents of Holloway and two neighbouring villages have bought shares in a single community-owned turbine, with stakes starting at €250 and profits promised to stay in the valley. Elena Sokolova · Business · 10 photos · 1 min Beekeeping: honey season at the hives From mountain slopes to woodland edges, beekeepers' colourful hives and combs full of work. Callum Reid · Business · 3 min Old Quay fish auction goes online as inland restaurants join the bidding Buyers can now bid for the morning catch from a phone or laptop, and fishers say prices at Wrenhaven's oldest market have become noticeably less volatile since the switch. Tom Ashworth · Business · 3 min Empty Harbourside office blocks to become 600 flats as remote work reshapes the docks Three office buildings that have stood largely vacant since staff began working from home are being converted into homes, the biggest scheme of its kind the city has approved. Nadia Karim · Business · 3 min Coastal guesthouses fill quiet months by bundling walks and food breaks Small hotels and guesthouses around Greyling Bay report a rise in out-of-season bookings after joining forces to sell guided walks, cookery sessions and harbour suppers as short-break packages. Marcus Feld ·