This document contains information about several travel packages and day trips being offered by Diamond Holidays, including trips to London to see Russell Watson in concert, a weekend experience of 1940s Britain in York and Haworth, a trip combining visits to Hampton Court Palace and Kew Gardens, and a river cruise and steam train journey in Yorkshire. It also includes some brief business news snippets about staff changes at a local law firm and share prices.

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6 June 2015
2 days from £129
Raymond Gubbay presents the
incredible voice of Russell Watson
and one of the world’s leading
orchestras for an afternoon of
classical favourites at the iconic
Royal Albert Hall.
Price includes
• Private coach travel from your local
area
• One night’s stay with three course
evening meal & cooked breakfast
• Ticket for the Best of British concert
at the Royal Albert Hall
• Free time in London
The Best of British
at the Royal Albert Hall
STARRING
RUSSELL WATSON
16 May 2015
2 days from £89
Join us on the home front as we
step back in time and experience
Britain during the 1940s – when
air raid sirens, food rations,
military troops and vehicles were
a part of everyday life.
Price includes
• Private coach travel from your local
• area
• One night’s stay with three course
• evening meal & cooked breakfast
• Visits to York & Haworth
Haworth 1940s
Weekend
20 June 2015
2 days from £139
The River Thames links together
the two attractions of our break
– Hampton Court Palace and the
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew,
where we take a journey from tree
root to tree top.
Price includes
• Private coach travel from your local
• area
• One night’s stay with three course
• evening meal & cooked breakfast
• Entrance to Hampton Court Palace,
• Gardens & Maze
• Visit to Kew Gardens and Rhizotron
• & Xstrata Treetop Walkway
KewGardensTree
TopsWalk&Hampton
Court
2 July &
17 September 2015
6 days from £449
Price includes
• Private coach travel from your local
area
• Return Eurotunnel from Folkestone
to Calais
• Five nights’stay with continental
breakfast & an evening meal on
two nights
• Entrance to Chenonceau Château
& Château de Villandry
• Visits to Amboise & Rochemenier
Troglodyte Village
• Visit to Château Brissac with wine
tasting
• Full day excursion to La Rochelle
The Glorious Loire
Valley & La Rochelle
19 June, 14 August & 9 October 2015
3 days from £169
Visit some wonderful locations and enjoy a classic combination of
cruise and steam. We cruise along the longest canal in the UK, before
travelling along a heritage railway which has appeared in many film
and TV productions.
Price includes
• Private coach travel from your local area
• Two nights’stay with three course evening meal & cooked breakfast
• Visits to Holmfirth, Skipton, Grassington & Haworth
• Cruise on the Leeds Liverpool Canal
• Coach tour of the Yorkshire Dales
• Journey on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
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BUSINESS BRIEFS
Fresh faces join law firm
VERISONA Law has two
new members in
the team.
Chloe Hicks
completed a
law and busi-
ness degree at
Portsmouth
University and is
the firm’s newest
paralegal.
Also joining is
Andrew Matthews.
He is working in the team
dealing with historic child
abuse, based in
Waterlooville,
after moving
from London to
Portsmouth last
year.
Verisona Law’s
CEO, Mark Day,
said: ‘We are
delighted to
have two such
enthusiastic and talented
individuals join the firm.’
SHARE PRICES
Aviva 536 -1
BabcockIntGroup 1,009 -5
BAE Systems 503 -4
BG Group 1,175 +6
BP 484 +4
BT 463 +3
Cable & W 67 0
Centrica 264 +4
Chemring 216 -3
De La Rue 560 0
Eaton Corp ($) 69 0
First Group 100 0
IBM ($) 170 +4
Int Consol Airways 577 -4
Johnston Press 154 -1
Lloyds Banking 79 +1
Lockheed ($) 198 0
Meggitt 549 +4
Pall ($) 97 -1
Pfizer 35 0
QinetiQ 203 0
Rolls-Royce Holdings 1,034 -13
Scot & SE 1,585 +22
Stagecoach 376 +1
Prices at last night’s close
The FTSE-100 index closed up 25.43 at 7053.67
For more business news go to portsmouth.co.uk/business
with
Charlotte Winfield
newsdesk@thenews.co.uk
£2.1m News-backed fund
available to help create
jobs and boost business.
Details at
solentlep.org.uk
NEWS
Business project
aims to be boost
for city start-upsA NEW programme hopes to improve
business start-up rates in Portsmouth.
Currently the city has low rates in
comparison to Brighton which has nearly
double the number of new businesses.
The programme is being launched by
the Business and Enterprise workstream
of the Shaping Portsmouth programme.
Stef Nienaltowski, chairman of the
group said: ‘Historically, in Portsmouth,
people went to work for someone else.
So our theme is that in the future, Port-
smouth will be the place that you work
for yourself.’
‘If we create more entrepreneurial
opportunities in the city then it will
improve our start-up rates and help to
tackle unemployment in the city.’
The launch event which is taking place
on Saturday, May 9, will give budding
entrepreneurs the chance to get informa-
tion from a series of short presentations
and one-to-one appointments with busi-
ness experts.
There will also be a series of break-out
sessions on 12 different areas for both
start-ups and existing business owners.
These will run all day and include a
range of topics from finance and market-
ing to product development.
The programme works in partnership
with Portsmouth City Council and Port-
smouth University.
Peter Hooley, from the university, is
leading the project.
He said: ‘We’re trying to start a culture
of business start-up, so as well as hosting
this event every year, entrepreneurs will
also be able to access a range of business
start-up resources and event details
through a new website we’re launching.
The launch event is at Richmond
Building on Portland Street from 10am
to 2pm.
Local programme which will offer support to local
entrepreneurs hopes to create more opportunities
Business