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A call on the UK government to implement a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to tackle drink-driving by mandating alcohol interlocks for…

By Matt Raines

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In what seemed like a significant milestone for TYPO3 in the United Kingdom, the Open Source CMS held its first ever TYPO3 Camp in the country this…

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It may only be the second time we’ve been, but the annual TYPO3 Developer Days in Karlsruhe in the German Black Forest already feels like a bit of an…

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The Liberal Democrats were founded in 1988 as the successor to the Liberal Party, the oldest political party in the UK.

By Tim Prater

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Duncan and Grace first set up The Bailey Head in Oswestry nine years ago and we were delighted they asked us to help with their website.

By Matt Raines

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When the Liberal Democrats initially came up with the specification for what would turn out to be their Fleet website system, simple bilinguality for…

By Dalton Avery

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Three members of the Prater Raines developer team took an epic journey

By Matt Raines

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Automated testing is a great thing and something we’re always looking at doing much, much more of.

By Tim Prater

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We’re delighted the Liberal Democrats chose Prater Raines to develop and host their websites for their national, regional and local parties.

By Tim Prater

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A Folkestone charity has £10,000 backing for a new digital support project in the town following a grant from the Nominet GiveHub scheme.

By Matt Raines

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Every time I’ve gone away to a conference recently, and PHP UK 2024 was no exception to the rule, I’ve come home jealous of all the pretty…

By Matt Raines

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I’m delighted that there’s been a twenty year trend in the United Kingdom for free and open access to more and more government data. Information about…

By Gary Fuller

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Since we created our first “Email Your MP” website in 2018, the service has expanded to support multiple organisations but has remained relatively…

By Matt Raines

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Salesforce has a handy tool to insert, update, and delete bulk data from CSV, XML, or JSON files. Salesforce says the tool only works on Windows and…

By Matt Raines

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As Germany moves away from closed source software to a strategy using TYPO3 for all government websites, I joined Jana Höffner and Nikolai Jaklitsch…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

I missed spring conference even though it was in my favourite city, York. But I was a fair bit preoccupied waiting for child #2 to be born.

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

FIM Capital (then IOMA FIM), the last of the Assanka customers, chose us to take over support of their fully featured investment management system…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

In our tenth year working together we took on a large portfolio of clients from Assanka Ltd, as they went on to become FT Labs, and I’m very

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

We had to end support for Internet Explorer 6 this year. It had been out of support for nearly 3 years and had 24 known unpatched vulnerabilities.

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

2010 marked the release of our ground-up rebuild of the Liberal Democrat website platform, this time built on top of Symfony, and this kept us busy…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

Tim spent much of the year knee deep in construction material rebuilding our office in a historic building on Sandgate High Street, expertly aided by…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

2008 was an incredible time to be at Prater Raines, a year of events that honestly we are still struggling to live up to 15 years on.

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

We incorporated as Prater Raines Ltd and started to provide technical consultancy in addition to developing and hosting web sites. Our first contract…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

We moved from renting servers to colocating our own equipment in a data centre on Marsh Wall in the Isle of Dogs.

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

After months of hard work we launched our first e-commerce site for Lib Dem Image, official party supplier of branded campaign materials. They’re…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

Our main focus this year was the continued growth of our Lib Dem website platform and by the end of 2004 we reached 175 customers including regions,…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

2003 was a year of remarkable growth for Prater Raines. We built bespoke website developments for the New Politics Network, the campaign for Votes at…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

Tim and I first mooted the idea of working together to build an affordable website platform for Liberal Democrat council groups and individuals in…

By Matt Raines

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A recent talk at Symfony Online guilt-tripped me out of the “var_dump() and die()” debugging style once again and back into using XDebug. It’s clearly…

By Matt Raines

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Following this year’s review by the Boundary Commissions for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, the next General Election will be fought…

By Tim Prater

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Always good to wake up news to the news that a friend and client has had a major success, and we got that news today!

By Tim Prater

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Nominet, the public benefit company that operates and protects .UK internet infrastructure, has partnered with The Institute of Coding (IoC).…

By Matt Raines

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21 Years

When Prater Raines took on its first batch of customers, the only smartphone was a BlackBerry, less than 200,000 UK homes had a broadband Internet…

By Matt Raines

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At Prater Raines we’ve provided campaigning websites for more than 20 years. Our role as provider of choice to every Liberal Democrat local or…

By Matt Raines

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Every morning at our full-team stand-up meeting we all share what we accomplished yesterday, what we plan to work on today, and the obstacles getting…

By Tim Prater

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We’re delighted that our very own Tim Prater has been selected to join the Nominet Members GiveHub Panel for 2022/23.

By Tim Prater

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Prater Raines are delighted that we have been selected to develop “Fleet”, a complete new website platform for the Liberal Democrats.

By Tim Prater

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Prater Raines is an “accredited channel partner” (domain registrars and member) of Nominet, the .uk domain registry. We therefore receive regular news…

By Tim Prater

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In recent weeks, we've spent time updating and improving the Sandgate Business Directory to be even better! There are new images of local businesses,…

By Tim Prater

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Lib Dem Draw  for 2020 is now being launched!

 

Back in 2018 Prater Raines were delighted to relaunch the long running Lib Dem Christmas Draw as an…

By Tim Prater

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Great to relaunch the Midas Training website this week. We rebuilt their existing site on WordPress, hosted and supported by us on our own UK based…

By Tim Prater

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An advert has been made for Prater Raines as part of our sponsorship of the Lib Dem Podcast.

By Tim Prater

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Prater Raines are proud to be the developers of the Liberal Democrats’ membership management portal “Lighthouse”.

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Prater Raines are delighted to bring live the 2020 HG Wells Short Story Competition website. This website provides information about the competition,…

By Tim Prater

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Some of the Prater Raines team have known Mark Pack for many years (probably rather more than any of us are prepared to admit). We were delighted when…

By Tim Prater

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Prater Raines are delighted to be working with the Liberal Democrats on the development of a new Local and Regional Party Portal. This is due to…

By Tim Prater

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Only sometimes do you check the BBC News and find one of your websites being mentioned, but this is one of those days.

By Tim Prater

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We were delighted in 2018 to work with Tendo Consulting on the End Our Pain website. Although they achieved a number of the campaign goals last year,…

By Tim Prater

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We are pleased to bring live a website for Oxford Musical Theatre.  The site is based on WordPress and has songs from the shows which can be…

By Tim Prater

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SCA: Strong Customer Authentication is coming. This is will change the way a large number of credit and debit card transactions that happen online.

By Tim Prater

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For almost 20 years, Lib Dem Image have been the official supplier of Liberal Democrat merchandise, campaign materials, clothing, gifts & books. In…

By Tim Prater

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In September 2017, the management of the Liberal Democrat Christmas Draw told us they were hanging up their tombola wheel. It made us dad that they…

By Tim Prater

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An email arrives from our local (Folkestone and Hythe) District Council regarding a no deal Brexit:

By Tim Prater

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Happy New year deal! After a great Christmas and New Year break, it’s always nice to be back in the office – Happy New Year!

By Tim Prater

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How will .eu domains be effected by Brexit?

By Tim Prater

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Read why it is important to update your WordPress site.

By Tim Prater

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We were delighted to be asked by our friends at Tendo Consulting to help with work on the End Our Pain campaign , which is a Campaign to Legalise…

By Tim Prater

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Come and join us for The Prater Raines Summer Party!

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We’re proud to be supporting the HG Wells Short Story Competition in 2018, providing their website and  giving Facebook support. It’s great to see…

By Tim Prater

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Prater Raines are delighted to be accredited by the Liberal Democrats as an Approved Supplier under their GDPR compliance programme. We’ve been…

By Tim Prater

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As of now, emails we send from all domains that we hold are signed with DKIM, Domain Keys Identified Mail.

By Tim Prater

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Tendo Consulting approached us to make some updates to the Fair Tax on Flying site which was part of a campaign they were working on for a client.

By Matt Raines

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It’s come to light this week that serious security flaws have been discovered in the processors of most modern PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and…

By Tim Prater

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Well this IS nice: an article on our local paper about the H G Wells Short Story Competition 2017, with Prater Raines named as a sponsor.

By Gary Fuller

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Nuff said: new WordPress site set-ups from £250 + VAT.

By Matt Raines

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Now that we’ve set up our multisite WordPress network, the next problem is going to be moving the content from our multiple existing single site…

By Matt Raines

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Last week I went into detail about how we’ve simplified our procedure for keeping WordPress up to date by using Composer for dependency management.

By Matt Raines

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Prater Raines launched our 19th WordPress website recently, a petition campaigning for justice for the marginalised children of Vietnamese mothers and…

By Tim Prater

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

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A customer recently wrote to us to tell us that they wanted to add an EU flag character (??) to an email they sent out from on of our websites but…

By Gary Fuller

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Drupal

Prater Raines support a suite of websites for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations: their Influence PR article aggregating site based on…

By Gary Fuller

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On Saturday 8th July we are planning on moving our server array to a larger “rack” with our existing datacentre (we’re remaining with our excellent…

By Tim Prater

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Prater Raines Ltd are delighted to announce that Stewart Christie will be joining their growing team from mid-April.

By Gary Fuller

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SDC Systems is a company that understands security vulnerability so when they wanted to host their own WordPress site we didn’t mind!

By Gary Fuller

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Each month, we pay a $50 subscription to a US software company for use of their anti-spam and anti-virus product across our sites (just one more…

By Gary Fuller

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We’ve been delighted to work on Major Foodie since moving to our hosting a few weeks ago, and have already delivered the first batch of changes that…

By Gary Fuller

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When we first met Major Foodie, his WordPress site had been going some time, and although he was, in the main, happy with it there were some changes…

By Gary Fuller

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We’ve been proud to be the website provider for the cross-community Alliance Party of Northern Ireland for over eleven years, and throughout that…

By Gary Fuller

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Our friends at Custodian DC (the award winning data-centre where we host our main server array) have today enabled their DDoS mitigation service for…

By Gary Fuller

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Drupal

We’re delighted to have brought live a new web site for APDS – The Association of Palliative Day Services – who are the national representative body…

By Gary Fuller

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Traditionally associated with e-commerce websites, HTTPS is beginning to be more widely used on all types of websites to secure user accounts and keep…

By Gary Fuller

Businesses
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We've hosted and updated a bespoke website for the Sandgate Business Forum for some time, but recently took the opportunity to modernise it and move…

By Gary Fuller

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Symfony

All good things must come to an end.

By Gary Fuller

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Wordpress

As the release from WordPress yesterday says:

By Gary Fuller

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We do a lot of work with the Charted Institute of Public Relations, including supporting their main corporate Drupal based site, the “Influence” site…

By Gary Fuller

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Since the launch of PHP7 in December 2015, we’ve been quietly working at upgrading our servers (and all our sites) from PHP5.6 (and at the same time…

By Gary Fuller

Liberal Democrats
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Symfony

In July we launched a new site with a bespoke design for Stephen Lloyd, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesman (and former MP) for Eastbourne.

By Gary Fuller

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A fresh look for the website of one of our longstanding clients: Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale and Leader of the Liberal Democrats.

By Gary Fuller

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Kiron Reid is a Liberal activist, writer and campaigner in support of civil liberties, the environment and an inclusive, tolerant society. He is a…

By Gary Fuller

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The Hampshire Foot and Ankle Clinic combines the expertise of consultant orthopaedic surgeons, podiatrists and physiotherapists with a special…

By Gary Fuller

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Prater Raines has been asked by various Liberal Democrat regions to deliver websites for their PCC candidates.

By Gary Fuller

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From 11 March 2016 some of our prices are changing. We know that generally that’s shorthand for “We’re putting all of our prices up” but in this case…

By Gary Fuller

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We’re building a lasting memorial in recognition of the service of the Royal Gurkha Rifles.

By Gary Fuller

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Today we’ve helped the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) launch a newly designed site to complement their new print and digital offering…

By Gary Fuller

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We’ve launched the first of two new websites for FIM Capital Ltd, who have recently changed their name from IOMA Fund and Investment Management…

By Gary Fuller

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Prater Raines were delighted to be asked to support Faith Matters in improving and updating their web offering.

By Gary Fuller

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Tell MAMA ("Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks") supports victims of anti-Muslim hate and is a public service which also measures and monitors anti-Muslim…

By Matt Raines

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Web programming language PHP was 20 years old yesterday and to celebrate Ben Ramsey wrote about his history with the language, and invited others to…

By Gary Fuller

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Symfony

Prater Raines has been supporting Liberal Democrat MPs since 2003, when we first developed the website of Andrew Stunell.

By Gary Fuller

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The Parliamentary Press Gallery was founded in 1803 and now represents more than 300 newspaper, agency, radio and TV journalists who work at…

By Gary Fuller

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We were delighted to be asked to create a website presence for three candidates in the Liberal Democrat Presidential Election 2014.

By Gary Fuller

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The War of the Words pop-up HG Wells exhibition is based just a few doors away from us on Sandgate High Street.

By Gary Fuller

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Over the last year, Prater Raines have completely rebuilt the CIPR Conversation, a site built on WordPress and featuring content aggregated and…

By Gary Fuller

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Kent Recovery had a pre-existing website through an on-line site building service, but it had display problems on some browsers and was poorly listed…

By Matt Raines

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The Sandgate Business Forum website offers free listings to all local businesses and also co-ordinates a free business email list to update businesses…

By Gary Fuller

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20's Plenty for Sandgate is the website for Sandgate Parish Council's 20's Plenty campaign. The aim of the campaign is to change the speed limit in…

By Gary Fuller

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Users of 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta releases of OpenSSL (including 1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta1) may need to run a quick upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1g

By Gary Fuller

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A small "contact card" site developed for renowned campaigner and Public Relations specialist Lynne Beaumont.

By Gary Fuller

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Fittingly with Valentine's Day tomorrow, we LOVE our latest website - launched today!

By Gary Fuller

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Midas Training Solutions offer training, coaching and consultancy to clients throughout the UK and overseas.

By Tim Prater

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Targetfollow is a highly experienced UK property investment, development and strategic asset management company based in Norwich.

By Tim Prater

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This Community Interest Company is a grassroots initiative created in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings to articulate a mainstream…

By Tim Prater

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When the CIPR needed to transfer from their existing developers, Prater Raines worked with them to minimise the disruption of transfer of their web…

By Tim Prater

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Rebecca Cook is a specialist in the conservation and repair of historical buildings and monuments.

By Tim Prater

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Symfony

Our online business management software was designed specifically for Seymour after discussion with management and time spent on the shop floor…

By Tim Prater

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The Gurkha Justice Campaign was one of the most successful lobbying campaigns of the last 10 years,

By Tim Prater

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Symfony

The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland's largest cross-community, anti-segregation, anti-sectarian political party.

By Tim Prater

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Liberal Democrat Image sell party branded goods and support material for Liberal Democrat activists and campaigners online and by phone.

By Tim Prater

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