Chris Lansbury has been appointed Commercial Manager, both for the UK and Ireland, for Crown Relocations. He has 30 years of experience in the relocation industry.

Crown Relocations has promoted David Hollins to Regional General Manager, UK and Ireland. He was previously Regional General Manager for the Southern Region and will now be responsible for increasing the company’s revenue across a variety of sectors.

Electric vehicle drivers are set to benefit from a £37m funding boost that will see the roll-out of thousands of new domestic and on-street chargepoints as well as new charging facilities at railway stations.

Scania Driver Training has invested in eight new trucks for its UK driver-development fleet. The new vehicles comprising four rigids and four articulated units, will provide pupils with state-of-the-art equipment in which to learn to drive a truck.

The British Institute of Facilities Management’s (BIFM) Ireland Region has announced the establishment of a new Southern Branch in the Region - the Institute’s first branch outside the UK.

Road safety charity Brake has strongly welcomed the news that Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin is resolved to cancel proposals for 80mph motorways, although an official announcement may not be made until later in the year.

The Forum of Private Business has said data released in the BDRC Finance Monitor for SME lending highlights ongoing problems with business banking in the UK.

The EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas has floated the idea of the EU legislating to oblige member states to provide more charging points for electric vehicles.

AIReS in Pittsburgh has been collecting teddy bears to give to the surviving children from the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary in December last year.

The majority of small businesses in the UK have taken a dim view of changes made to the tax system by the current government, research by the Forum of Private Business shows.

It’s not every day that a removals company has to use the services of a landing craft to deliver furniture for a customer, but for the guys at White & Company’s depot in Guernsey it’s all in a day’s work.

When the royal tunnel gates from the original Wembley Stadium went up for auction in November 2011, few would have predicted that the successful bid would come from a museum in Chile. But successful they were, and Anglo Pacific has now shipped the gates to capital Santiago.

The Mayor of London has announced the creation of the world’s first ultra-low emissions zone by 2020.

New regulations come out throughout Europe all the time. Sometimes it's hard keeping up with all the changes. Here is a selection of some of the more important ones to keep you up to date.

In the Budget Chancellor George Osborne announced new plans to help people buy their own homes. The Help to Buy scheme, which began on 1 April, expands a previous initiative, FirstBuy, which was aimed solely at first-time buyers.

With much speculation earlier in the year that household goods shipping rates were likely to increase this spring, The Mover spoke to Harm Meierdirks, Chairman and Regional Director European Mainland for OSA, to find out how the market is holding up.

Brian Charles, reflections on a career in moving: by Steve Jordan.

Cordelia Rushby, from Keystone Law, provides a refresher for business owners on their responsibilities regarding two key insurance policies and whether volunteers and work experience students should be insured as employees.

Leko Packing, Moving and Logistics is Bhutan’s first packing and moving company.

Pauline Wentzel has joined Felix Relocations in Singapore as the company’s Corporate Manager.